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Index Comics

a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information. [1]

194 relations: A Contract with God, ABC-CLIO, Abrams Books, Action Comics, Albert Uderzo, Ally Sloper, Alternative comics, Amalgamated Press, American comic book, American Library Association, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Animation, Ars moriendi, Asterix, Auteur, Avon (publisher), Bayeux Tapestry, Benoît Peeters, Berkley Books, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Block book, Bois Protat, Broadsheet, Bud Fisher, Bunkobon, Cambridge University Press, Cartoonist, Charles Henry Ross, Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga, Chinese characters, Colorist, Columbia University Press, Comic book, Comic Cuts, Comic strip, Comics and Sequential Art, Comics artist, Comics Code Authority, Commonwealth of Nations, Continuum International Publishing Group, Coulton Waugh, CRC Press, Crime comics, DC Thomson, Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, Desperate Dan, Dip pen, Don Markstein's Toonopedia, Dundurn Press, Editorial cartoon, ..., Egyptian hieroglyphs, European comics, Fantagraphics Books, Franco-Belgian comics, Frederik L. Schodt, Gag cartoon, German comics, Gloss (annotation), Golden Age of Comic Books, Graphic novel, Hachette (publisher), Hara-Kiri (magazine), HarperCollins, Harvard University Asia Center, History of American comics, History of comics, History of manga, Hokusai, Hokusai Manga, Horror comics, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way, Illustrated Chips, India ink, Indiana University Press, Infinite canvas, Inker, Jean Giraud, Jewish Publication Society, John Wiley & Sons, Judge (magazine), Kibyōshi, Kitazawa Rakuten, Kitchen Sink Press, Kyoto Seika University, L'Association, L'Écho des savanes, Lascaux, Le Journal de Mickey, Letterer, Leuven University Press, Life (magazine), Ligne claire, List of best-selling comic series, List of best-selling manga, List of comic books, List of comic strip syndicates, List of comics creators, List of comics publishing companies, List of Franco-Belgian comics series, List of manga artists, List of manga magazines, List of manga publishers, List of newspaper comic strips, List of years in comics, Lists of manga, Liverpool University Press, Low culture, Manga, Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics, Manhua, Manhwa, Mass media, Mass noun, Maus, May 1968 events in France, Métal hurlant, McFarland & Company, Media (communication), Media culture, Motion lines, Mutt and Jeff, Neil Cohn, New York Journal-American, New York World, Onomatopoeia, Osamu Tezuka, Oxford University Press, Panel (comics), Penciller, Peter Lang (publisher), Photo comics, Picture book, Pilote, Poiesis, Princeton Architectural Press, Puck (magazine), Punch (magazine), R. C. Harvey, René Goscinny, Richard F. Outcault, Rodolphe Töpffer, Rodopi (publisher), Romance comics, Rosen Publishing, Routledge, Sazae-san, Scott McCloud, Script (comics), Semiotics, Sequential art, Simon & Schuster, Speech balloon, Storyboard, Sunday comics, SUNY Press, Superhero, Superhero comics, Superman, Tankōbon, Taylor & Francis, The Adventures of Tintin, The Bash Street Kids, The Beano, The Comics Journal, The Dandy, The Dark Knight Returns, The Glasgow Looking Glass, The Last Judgment (Michelangelo), The Yellow Kid, Thierry Groensteen, Thierry Smolderen, Toba-e, Trade paperback (comics), Trajan's Column, Ukiyo-e, Underground comix, Understanding Comics, United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, University of California Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Missouri, University of Texas Press, University of Toronto Press, University Press of Mississippi, Victoria and Albert Museum, Walter de Gruyter, Watchmen, Webcomic, Western comics, Will Eisner, William Hogarth, Woodblock printing, Wordless novel, Zig et Puce. Expand index (144 more) »

A Contract with God

A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner published in 1978.

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ABC-CLIO

ABC-CLIO, LLC is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.

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Abrams Books

Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of art and illustrated books, children's books, and stationery.

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Action Comics

Action Comics is an American comic book series that introduced Superman, one of the first major superhero characters.

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Albert Uderzo

Alberto Aleandro Uderzo (born 25 April 1927), known as Albert Uderzo, is a French comic book artist and scriptwriter.

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Ally Sloper

Alexander "Ally" Sloper is the eponymous fictional character of the comic strip Ally Sloper.

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Alternative comics

Alternative comics cover a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Amalgamated Press

The Amalgamated Press was a newspaper and magazine publishing company founded by journalist and entrepreneur Alfred Harmsworth in 1901, gathering his many publishing ventures together under one banner.

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American comic book

An American comic book is a thin periodical, typically 32-pages, containing comics content.

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC (formerly Andrews, McMeel and Parker (1975–1986) and Andrews and McMeel (1986–1997)) is a company that publishes books, calendars, and related toys.

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Animation

Animation is a dynamic medium in which images or objects are manipulated to appear as moving images.

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Ars moriendi

The Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") are two related Latin texts dating from about 1415 and 1450 which offer advice on the protocols and procedures of a good death, explaining how to "die well" according to Christian precepts of the late Middle Ages.

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Asterix

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois) is a series of French comics.

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Auteur

An auteur ('author') is an artist, such as a film director, who applies a highly centralized and subjective control to many aspects of a collaborative creative work.

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Avon (publisher)

Avon Publications was an American paperback book and comic book publisher.

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Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry (Tapisserie de Bayeux or La telle du conquest; Tapete Baiocense) is an embroidered cloth nearly long and tall, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.

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Benoît Peeters

Benoît Peeters (born 1956) is a French comics writer, novelist, and comics studies scholar.

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Berkley Books

Berkley Books is an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) that began as an independent company in 1955.

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Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is a research library of American cartoons and comic art affiliated with the Ohio State University library system in Columbus, Ohio.

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Block book

Block books, also called xylographica, are short books of up to 50 leaves, block printed in Europe in the second half of the 15th century as woodcuts with blocks carved to include both text and illustrations.

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Bois Protat

The woodblock fragment Bois Protat (("Protat wood"); also Protat block or Protat woodblock) is a fragmentary woodblock for printing, and the images on it are the oldest surviving woodcut images from the Western world.

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Broadsheet

A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically). Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and tabloid/compact formats.

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Bud Fisher

Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher (April 3, 1885 – September 7, 1954) was an American cartoonist who created Mutt and Jeff, the first successful daily comic strip in the United States.

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Bunkobon

In Japan, are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Cartoonist

A cartoonist (also comic strip creator) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons.

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Charles Henry Ross

Charles Henry Ross (1835 – 12 October 1897) was an English writer and cartoonist.

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Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga

, commonly shortened to is a famous set of four picture scrolls, or emakimono, belonging to Kōzan-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

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Colorist

In comics, a colorist is responsible for adding color to black-and-white line art.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Comic Cuts

Comic Cuts was a British comic book magazine.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Comics and Sequential Art

Comics and Sequential Art is a book by American cartoonist Will Eisner that analyzes the comics medium, published in 1985 and revised in 1990.

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Comics artist

A comics artist (also comic book artist, graphic novel artist, or comic book illustrator) is a person working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books, or graphic novels.

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Comics Code Authority

The Comics Code Authority (CCA) was formed in 1954 by the Comics Magazine Association of America as an alternative to government regulation, to allow the comic publishers to self-regulate the content of comic books in the United States.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.

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Continuum International Publishing Group

Continuum International Publishing Group was an academic publisher of books with editorial offices in London and New York City.

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Coulton Waugh

Frederick Coulton Waugh (10 March 1896, Cornwall, England – 23 May 1973) was a cartoonist, painter, teacher and author, best known for his illustration work on the comic strip Dickie Dare and his book The Comics (1947), the first major study of the field.

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CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group based in the United States that specializes in producing technical books.

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Crime comics

Crime comics is a genre of American comic books and format of crime fiction.

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DC Thomson

DC Thomson is a British publishing and television production company best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy, and Commando comics.

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Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (previously titled Dennis and Gnasher, and originally titled Dennis the Menace) is a long-running comic strip in the British children's comic The Beano, published by DC Thomson, of Dundee, Scotland.

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Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the British comic magazine The Dandy and has become their mascot.

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Dip pen

A dip pen or nib pen usually consists of a metal nib with capillary channels like those of fountain-pen nibs, mounted in a handle or holder, often made of wood.

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Don Markstein's Toonopedia

Don Markstein's Toonopedia (subtitled A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge) is a web encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation, initiated February 13, 2001.

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Dundurn Press

Dundurn Press is the largest Canadian-owned book publishing company of adult and children’s fiction and non-fiction in Canada.

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Editorial cartoon

An editorial cartoon, also known as a political cartoon, is a drawing containing a commentary expressing the artist's opinion.

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt.

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European comics

European comics are comics produced in Europe.

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Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint.

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Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics (bande dessinée franco-belge) are comics that are created for French-Belgian (Wallonia) and/or French readership.

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Frederik L. Schodt

Frederik L. Schodt (born January 22, 1950) is an American translator, interpreter and writer.

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Gag cartoon

A gag cartoon (a.k.a. panel cartoon or gag panel) is most often a single-panel cartoon, usually including a caption beneath the drawing.

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German comics

German comics are comics written in the German language or by German-speaking creators, for the major comic markets in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with spill-overs into the neighboring, but lesser, comic markets of Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and German-Belgium.

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Gloss (annotation)

A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal one or an interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text.

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Golden Age of Comic Books

The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era of American comic books from the late 1930s to circa 1950.

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Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content.

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Hachette (publisher)

Hachette is a French publisher.

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Hara-Kiri (magazine)

Hara-Kiri was a monthly French satirical magazine, first published in 1960, the precursor to Charlie Hebdo.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Harvard University Asia Center

The Harvard University Asia Center is an interdisciplinary research and education unit of Harvard University, established on July 1, 1997, with the goal of "driving varied programs focusing on international relations in Asia and comparative studies of Asian countries and regions (...) and supplementing other Asia-related programs and institutes and the University and providing a focal point for interaction and exchange on topics of common interest for the Harvard community and Asian intellectual, political, and business circles.", according to its charter.

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History of American comics

The history of American comics began in the 19th century in the realm of mass print media and yellow journalism, where they served as a boon to mass readership.

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History of comics

The history of comics has followed different paths in different parts of the world.

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History of manga

The history of manga is said to originate from scrolls dating back to the 12th century, and it is believed they represent the basis for the right-to-left reading style.

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Hokusai

was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.

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Hokusai Manga

The is a collection of sketches of various subjects by the Japanese artist Hokusai.

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Horror comics

Horror comics are comic books, graphic novels, black-and-white comics magazines, and manga focusing on horror fiction.

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How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way is a book by Stan Lee and John Buscema.

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Illustrated Chips

Illustrated Chips was a British comic magazine published between 26 July 1890 and 12 September 1953.

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India ink

India ink (British English: Indian Ink; also Chinese ink) is a simple black or colored ink once widely used for writing and printing and now more commonly used for drawing and outlining, especially when inking comic books and comic strips.

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Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.

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Infinite canvas

The infinite canvas refers to the potentially limitless space that is available to webcomics presented on the World Wide Web.

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Inker

The inker (sometimes credited as the finisher or embellisher or tracer) is one of the two line artists in traditional comic book production.

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Jean Giraud

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition.

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Jewish Publication Society

The Jewish Publication Society (JPS), originally known as the Jewish Publication Society of America, is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher of Jewish works in English.

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John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.

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Judge (magazine)

Judge was a weekly satirical magazine published in the United States from 1881 to 1947.

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Kibyōshi

is a genre of Japanese picture book kusazōshi (草双紙) produced during the middle of the Edo period, from 1775 to the early 19th century.

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Kitazawa Rakuten

, better known by the pen name, was a Japanese manga artist and nihonga artist.

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Kitchen Sink Press

Kitchen Sink Press was a comic book publishing company founded by Denis Kitchen in 1970.

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Kyoto Seika University

is a private university in Iwakura, Kyoto, Japan.

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L'Association

L'Association is a French publishing house which publishes comic books.

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L'Écho des savanes

L’Écho des Savanes is a Franco-Belgian comics magazine founded in May 1972 by Claire Bretécher, Marcel Gotlib and Nikita Mandryka.

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Lascaux

Lascaux (Grotte de Lascaux, "Lascaux Cave") is the setting of a complex of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France.

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Le Journal de Mickey

Le Journal de Mickey is a French weekly comics magazine established in 1934 and currently published by Disney Hachette Presse.

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Letterer

A letterer is a member of a team of comic book creators responsible for drawing the comic book's text.

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Leuven University Press

Leuven University Press (Universitaire Pers Leuven) is a university press located in Leuven, Belgium.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Ligne claire

Ligne claire (French for "clear line") is a style of drawing pioneered by Hergé, the Belgian creator of The Adventures of Tintin.

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List of best-selling comic series

This page provides lists of best-selling comic book series to date.

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List of best-selling manga

are comics created in Japan.

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List of comic books

This is a list of comic books, by country.

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List of comic strip syndicates

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List of comics creators

This is a list of comics creators.

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List of comics publishing companies

This list of comics publishing companies lists companies, specifically publishing companies who primarily publish comics.

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List of Franco-Belgian comics series

Franco-Belgian comics are one of the main groups of comics, together with the American and British comic books and the Japanese manga.

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List of manga artists

This is a list of notable manga artists.

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List of manga magazines

This is a list of manga magazines by country of publication (in Japan, or in other countries).

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List of manga publishers

This article lists publishers of manga in various markets worldwide.

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List of newspaper comic strips

The following is a list of comic strips.

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List of years in comics

This page indexes the individual year in comics pages.

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Lists of manga

are comics created in Japan, or by Japanese creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Liverpool University Press

Liverpool University Press, founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.

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Low culture

"Low culture" is a derogatory term for forms of popular culture that have mass appeal.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics

Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics is a 1983 book by Frederik L. Schodt.

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Manhua

Manhua are Chinese comics produced in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

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Manhwa

Manhwa (Hangul: 만화) is the general Korean term for comics and print cartoons (common usage also includes animated cartoons).

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Mass media

The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Mass noun

In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, or non-count noun is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete subsets.

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Maus

Maus is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991.

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May 1968 events in France

The volatile period of civil unrest in France during May 1968 was punctuated by demonstrations and massive general strikes as well as the occupation of universities and factories across France.

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Métal hurlant

Métal hurlant (literal translation: "Screaming Metal") is a French comics anthology of science fiction and horror comics stories, created in December 1974 by comics artists Jean Giraud (better known as Mœbius) and Philippe Druillet together with journalist-writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet and financial director Bernard Farkas.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc. is an independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction.

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Media (communication)

Media are the collective communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data.

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Media culture

In cultural studies, media culture refers to the current Western capitalist society that emerged and developed from the 20th century, under the influence of mass media.

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Motion lines

In comics, motion lines (also known as movement lines, action lines, speed lines, hites or zip ribbons) are the abstract lines that appear behind a moving object or person, parallel to its direction of movement, to make it appear as if it is moving quickly.

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Mutt and Jeff

Mutt and Jeff is a long-running and widely popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about "two mismatched tinhorns".

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Neil Cohn

Neil Cohn (born 1980) is an American cognitive scientist and comics theorist.

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New York Journal-American

The New York Journal-American was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1937 to 1966.

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New York World

The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931.

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Onomatopoeia

An onomatopoeia (from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make", adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes.

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Osamu Tezuka

was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, animator, and film producer.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Panel (comics)

A panel is an individual frame, or single drawing, in the multiple-panel sequence of a comic strip or comic book.

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Penciller

A penciller (or penciler) is a collaboration artist who works in creation of comic books, graphic novels, and similar visual art forms, with focus on primary pencil illustrations, hence the term "penciller".

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Peter Lang (publisher)

Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences.

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Photo comics

Photo comics are a form of sequential storytelling that uses photographs rather than illustrations for the images, along with the usual comics conventions of narrative text and word balloons containing dialogue.

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Picture book

A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children.

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Pilote

Cover of the first ''Pilote'' teaser issue, #0. Pilote was a French comic magazine published from 1959 to 1989.

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Poiesis

In philosophy, poiesis (from ποίησις) is "the activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before." Poiesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιεῖν, which means "to make".

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Princeton Architectural Press

Princeton Architectural Press is a small press publisher that specializes in books on architecture, design, photography, landscape, and visual culture, with over 1,000 titles on its backlist.

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Puck (magazine)

Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day.

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Punch (magazine)

Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells.

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R. C. Harvey

Robert C. Harvey (born 1937), popularly known as R. C. Harvey, is an author, critic and cartoonist.

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René Goscinny

René Goscinny (14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comics editor and writer of Polish descent, who is best known internationally for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris (considered the series' golden age) and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.

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Richard F. Outcault

Richard Felton Outcault (January 14, 1863 – September 25, 1928) was an American cartoonist.

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Rodolphe Töpffer

Rodolphe Töpffer (31 January 1799 – 8 June 1846) was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist.

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Rodopi (publisher)

Rodopi, founded in 1966 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is an academic publishing company with offices in the Netherlands and the United States.

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Romance comics

Romance comics is a comics genre depicting strong and close romantic love and its attendant complications such as jealousy, marriage, divorce, betrayal, and heartache.

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Rosen Publishing

The Rosen Publishing Group is an American publisher for educational books for readers from ages pre-Kindergarten through grade 12.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Sazae-san

is a Japanese yonkoma manga series written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa.

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Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod on June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist.

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Script (comics)

A script is a document describing the narrative and dialogue of a comic book in detail.

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Semiotics

Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication.

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Sequential art

In comics studies, sequential art is a term proposed by comics artist Will EisnerWill Eisner, Comics and Sequential Art, Poorhouse Press, 1990 (1st ed.: 1985), p. 5.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Speech balloon

Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comics and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic.

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Storyboard

A storyboard is a graphic organizer in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence.

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Sunday comics

The Sunday comics or Sunday strip is the comic strip section carried in most western newspapers, almost always in color.

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SUNY Press

The State University of New York Press (or SUNY Press), is a university press and a Center for Scholarly Communication.

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Superhero

A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero or Super) is a type of heroic stock character, usually possessing supernatural or superhuman powers, who is dedicated to fighting the evil of his/her universe, protecting the public, and usually battling supervillains.

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Superhero comics

Superhero comics are one of the most common genres of American comic books.

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Superman

Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Tankōbon

is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series or corpus.

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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.

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The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé.

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The Bash Street Kids

The Bash Street Kids is a comic strip in the British comic book The Beano.

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The Beano

The Beano is the longest running British children's comic magazine, published by DC Thomson.

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The Comics Journal

The Comics Journal, often abbreviated TCJ, is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels.

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The Dandy

The Dandy was a Scottish children's comic published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson.

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The Dark Knight Returns

The Dark Knight Returns (alternatively titled Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) is a 1986 four-issue comic book miniseries starring Batman, written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Miller and Klaus Janson, and published by DC Comics.

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The Glasgow Looking Glass

The Glasgow Looking Glass was the first mass-produced publication to tell stories using illustrations, and as such is regarded as the earliest comics magazine.

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The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)

The Last Judgment (Il Giudizio Universale) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo covering the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

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The Yellow Kid

The Yellow Kid was the name of a lead American comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

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Thierry Groensteen

Thierry Groensteen (born April 18, 1957, Uccle, Brussels) is one of the leading French-speaking comics researchers and theorists, whose work has found influence beyond that field.

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Thierry Smolderen

Thierry Smolderen (born 25 November 1954) is an essay writer, and a scenario writer of Belgian comic strips, for example of Gipsy.

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Toba-e

is a style of Japanese painting based on works from the 12th century that are attributed to Toba Sōjō.

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Trade paperback (comics)

In comics, a trade paperback (often shortened to trade) is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme.

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Trajan's Column

Trajan's Column (Colonna Traiana, COLVMNA·TRAIANI) is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars.

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Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.

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Underground comix

Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature.

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Understanding Comics

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art is a 1993 non-fiction work of comics by American cartoonist Scott McCloud.

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United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency

The United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency was established by the United States Senate in 1953 to investigate the problem of juvenile delinquency.

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University of California Press

University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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University of Hawaii Press

The University of Hawaii Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiokinai.

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University of Missouri

The University of Missouri (also, Mizzou, or MU) is a public, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri.

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University of Texas Press

The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin.

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University of Toronto Press

The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian scholarly publisher and book distributor founded in 1901.

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University Press of Mississippi

The University Press of Mississippi, founded in 1970, is a publisher that is sponsored by the eight state universities in Mississippi.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.

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Walter de Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter GmbH (or; brand name: De Gruyter) is a scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.

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Watchmen

Watchmen is an American comic book limited series by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins.

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Webcomic

Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app.

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Western comics

Western comics is a comics genre usually depicting the American Old West frontier (usually anywhere west of the Mississippi River) and typically set during the late nineteenth century.

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Will Eisner

William Erwin "Will" Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur.

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William Hogarth

William Hogarth FRSA (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist.

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Woodblock printing

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.

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Wordless novel

The wordless novel is a narrative genre that uses sequences of captionless pictures to tell a story.

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Zig et Puce

Zig et Puce is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Alain Saint-Ogan in 1925 that became popular and influential over a long period.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics

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