Drawing on comic-theoretical discussions of the comics medium's structural queerness – to be determined, above all, in its specific materiality, media-constitutive figure repetition, interlinear reading and, thus, particular possibilities a re-reading (human) bodies this article demonstrates posthuman-queer comics. To end, bases are given new perspective through Karen Barad's elaborations Natur...

GENDER AMBIGUITY IN CHARACTERS’ STATEMENTS JAPANESE MANGA COMICS AND THEIR POLISH TRANSLATIONS
 The aim of this paper is to analyze how creators Japanese manga comics utilize the fact that language lacks grammatical category gender. analysis preceded by theoretical background, explaining gender can be expressed or hinted in texts. performed on fragments original mangas, which are presented...

Online privacy and security notices are rather ineffective: Very few people read them, and those who do find them difficult to understand and remember. How can we create privacy and security notices that are inviting, engaging, comprehensible, and memorable, even for users with dyslexia or a lower literacy level? In this paper, we propose to investigate the use of comics for privacy and securit...

1 Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America, 2 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, 3 Engineering Photonics, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, 4 Department of Biochemistry and Microbiol...

In comics as multimodal narratives visual and verbal modes interact to create meaning. Colours play an important role in comics, the choice of warm or cold colour palette, well bright muted, influences a reader’s perception attitude described events. Comics have number narratological, stylistic, structural other characteristics. Events can be presented both with help narrator (extradiegetic int...

objectives: scientometric methods and the resulting citations have been applied to investigate the scientific performance of a nation. the present study was designed to collect the statistical information of dental articles by iranian authors published in pubmed. materials and methods: we searched the pubmed database for dental articles of iranian authors until june 31, 2015. all abstracts were...

This preliminary paper is a part of an ongoing research to study the relationship between theme on Malaysian unity presented in comics. has been conducted by collecting existing related literatures and local origin comic visuals which therefore fulfilled objective this paper. Visual analysis method identify visual characteristics reflecting national comics applied study. Therefore, may serve be...

This paper presents CORVIS(COmics Rendering system on VIdeo Stream) which helps to create comic strips from video streams in semi-automated manner. For this, first we manually select a set of important featuring scenes in a cinema and transform them into simplified illustrations by Mean-Shift segmentation. Then we insert the stylized comic effects to each illustration by considering the before/...

Comic Vine (CV) is a semantic platform focused on documenting published comics. Developers Dave Snider, Ethan Lance, and Tony Guerrero launched the site December 2006 as part of their first series proprietary wiki platforms covering various entertainment industries. More than wiki, CV was at launch news review website comics offering discussion forums for users. This article examines how has de...