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.

Comments

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. Find more information about Language & Literacy: A Canadian Educational E-Journal at the publisher's website: http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/langandlit.

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