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The Comic at the Crossroads: The Semiotics of ‘Voodoo Storytelling’ in The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1 漫画在十字路口:'伏都讲故事'的符号学在洞:消费文化卷1

Comics Grid-Journal of Comics Scholarship Pub Date : 2019-08-06 DOI: 10.16995/CG.150

Lisa Kottas, Martin Schwarzenbacher

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“That Old Black Magic”: Noir and Music in Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s Blacksad “古老的黑魔法”:胡安的黑色和音乐Díaz卡纳莱斯和胡安霍·瓜尼多的黑色

Comics Grid-Journal of Comics Scholarship Pub Date : 2019-07-31 DOI: 10.16995/CG.156

Hailey J. Austin

引用次数: 2

Guoxue Comics: Visualising Philosophical Concepts and Cultural Values through Sequential Narratives 国学漫画：用序序序叙事的视角透视哲学概念与文化价值

Comics Grid-Journal of Comics Scholarship Pub Date : 2019-07-29 DOI: 10.16995/CG.149

X. Tan

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A Historical Approach to Webcomics: Digital Authorship in the Early 2000s 网络漫画的历史方法:21世纪初的数字作者

Comics Grid-Journal of Comics Scholarship Pub Date : 2019-06-07 DOI: 10.16995/CG.162

Leah Misemer

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引用次数: 1

Touch Me/Don’t Touch Me: Representations of Female Archetypes in Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil 碰我/别碰我：安·诺森蒂《夜魔侠》中女性原型的再现

Comics Grid-Journal of Comics Scholarship Pub Date : 2019-05-21 DOI: 10.16995/CG.148

R. Hagan

引用次数: 0

Diabetes Year One. Drawing my Pathography: Comics, Poetry and the Medical Self 糖尿病第一年。画我的病理:漫画，诗歌和医学自我

Comics Grid-Journal of Comics Scholarship Pub Date : 2019-05-17 DOI: 10.16995/CG.147

T. Pickering

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引用次数: 1

…Comic Books, Möbius Strips, Philosophy and… …漫画书，Möbius条纹，哲学和…

Comics Grid-Journal of Comics Scholarship Pub Date : 2019-04-04 DOI: 10.16995/CG.151

Ian Hornsby

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Information Labour and Shame in Farmer and Chevli’s Abortion Eve Farmer和Chevli的堕胎夜中的信息劳动与羞耻

Comics Grid-Journal of Comics Scholarship Pub Date : 2019-04-03 DOI: 10.16995/CG.158

Melanie McGovern, Martin Paul Eve

引用次数: 2

Beyond Linearity: Holistic, Multidirectional, Multilinear and Translinear Reading in Comics 超越线性:漫画中的整体、多向、多线性和跨线性阅读

Comics Grid-Journal of Comics Scholarship Pub Date : 2019-03-25 DOI: 10.16995/cg.137

Enrique del Rey Cabero

引用次数: 7

The Board and the Body: Material Constraints and Style in Graphic Narrative 板与体：平面叙事中的物质约束与风格

Comics Grid-Journal of Comics Scholarship Pub Date : 2019-02-20 DOI: 10.16995/CG.145

P. Grant

引用次数: 1