Scott McCloud

Issue 3.2 Previous Issues

Framing Comics Words

Harriet Earle October 17, 2014 No Comments 9/11 Art Spiegelman Asterix Bill Wray bubble comics Dust Jason Keith Giffen narrative form Scott McCloud silent comics The Yellow Kid trauma comics traumatic representation Will Eisner

Many aspects of the comics form have entered popular consciousness but none is quite as ubiquitous as the bubble. In order to work as a narrative form, comics are required to make visible…

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Issue 2.5 Previous Issues

Comics and Page Bleeds

Harriet Earle October 9, 2013 1 Comment 300 close reading comics scholarship Franco-Belgian Frank Miller G B Tran Joe Sacco Manga Manhwa page bleeds Palestine panels Scott McCloud splash page textual analysis The Fixer Vietnamerica visual style western comics art

We are used to seeing comics as a succession of neatly ordered panels, each containing images and words that combine together to tell a story. In my last paper for Alluvium, ‘Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics,’ (Alluvium Vol. 2, No. 1…

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Issue 2.1 Previous Issues

Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics

Harriet Earle January 12, 2013 4 Comments 9/11 Alan Moore Art Spiegelman Batman closure comics comics scholarship Dark Knight Returns Dave Gibbon DC Comics Fantagraphics Books form formal analysis Frank Miller genre gutter Marjane Satrapi panel transitions Persepolis Scott McCloud Sin City superheroes The Real Thing The Spirit Unreal Watchmen Will Eisner

Comics are the new kids on the block in the world of literary academia. It is only in recent years that they have been accepted at a valid narrative form…

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