Defining Comics?

Collaboration through comics

This paper examines the role of design comics within business analysis. We first consider background to the use of comics within design work. This leads us to collate a number of advantages to using design comics as an intermediate and user-centric representation within acts of business analysis. We then describe our own use of design comics for making sense of socio-technical organisation and ...

Introducing Comics and Ideology

The comics war.

Non-branching Interactive Comics

Comics are a unique and classical form of storytelling. The advent of interactive narratives brings the possibility of interaction to the traditional comic books. In this paper we present a non-branching interactive comics system capable of generating dynamic interactive narratives in the format of comic books. The system allows users to interact with certain objects, and then observe the conse...

ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies

Batman has contributed more than its fair share to the 'darkness that hangs over contemporary culture like a picturesque pall. 'Dark' designates both a highly marketable aesthetic style and an ethical, or rather anti-ethical, stance, a kind of designer nihilism whose chief theoretical proposition is the denial of the possibility of the Good. Gotham, particularly as re-invented by Frank Miller i...