IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Mar 1998

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

A.D. Manning

Abstract

INSIGHTS about professional communication may come from odd and unexpected places. McCloud's Understanding Comics (hereafter UC) is a case in point. Despite the juvenile connotations evoked by any discussion of comic books, the theory of visual communication presented in UC arguably rivals the best of contemporary semiotics (that is, the study of how we make meaning out of gestures, words, paragraphs, pictures, and so on).

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IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Published
1998-03-01
DOI
10.1109/tpc.1998.661632
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Open Access
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professional writing multimodality
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Cited by in this index (4)

  1. Peter et al. (2020)
    “Figure 4, Peyote”: Comics and Graphic Narrative in Anarchist Cookbooks, 1971-Present
    Technical Communication Quarterly
  2. Amare et al. (2007)
    The Language of Visuals: Text + Graphics = Visual Rhetoric Tutorial
    IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
  3. Manning (1998)
    Minimalism beyond computer documentation
    IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
  4. Walsh (1998)
    Illustrations in oral presentations: photographs
    IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

References (1)

  1. peirce (1960)
    Collected Papers
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