Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2001
Publication Title
Language & Literacy: A Canadian Educational E-Journal
Volume
3
Issue Number
1
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Abstract
The reading process in comics is an extension of text. In text alone the process of reading involves word-to-image conversion. Comics accelerate that by providing the image. When properly executed, it goes beyond conversion and speed and becomes a seamless whole. In every sense, this misnamed form of reading is entitled to be regarded as literature because the images are employed as a language. There is a recognizable relationship to the iconography and pictographs of oriental writing. When this language is employed as a conveyance of ideas and information, it separates itself from mindless visual entertainment. This makes comics a storytelling medium.
Recommended Citation
Gail de Vos. "Storytelling, Folktales and the Comic Book Format" Language & Literacy: A Canadian Educational E-Journal (2001).
Comments
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