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Wordless comics


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    • Wordless comics
  • Variants

    • Comics without text
    • Comics without words
    • Silent comics
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    • found: Work cat.: Cazot, V. About Betty's boob, 2018:(a wordless comic)
    • found: Chaboute. The park bench, 2017:(a wordless comic)
    • found: Tan, S. The arrival, 2014:(summary: This silent graphic novel...)
    • found: David-West, A. Sequential art and sentence construction : wordless comics in an EFL context, 2012.
    • found: Varnum, R. The language of comics : word and image, 2007:t.p. ("Pictures speak in comics without words : pictorial principles in the work of Milt Gross, Hendrik Dorgathen, Eric Drooker, and Peter Kuper) p. 20 (wordless comics; lack traditional text and word balloons; "the artist has to insure a clear flow of the narrative and the reader has to discern more intently all the elements in each panel or page in order to follow the story clearly") p. 38 (wordless comics require "a pictorial vocabulary" and extra time to understand the pictorial information in each panel)
    • found: Bramlett, F. The Routledge companion to comics, 2016:p. 201 (silent comics, also known as wordless comics; comics without text; not strictly silent, as they often include sound effects in various forms such as pictographs, or images including words like newspaper headlines, street signs, etc.)
    • found: Zanettin, F. Comics in translation, 2015:p. 79 (comics without words; wordless comics)
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  • Change Notes

    • 2019-05-29: new
    • 2019-07-31: revised
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