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Comics: the combination of image and text juxtaposed in deliberate sequence for the purposes of exposition or storytelling. As a medium, comics depend on the interoperation of verbal and visual modalities and the coordination of a refined and specialized vocabulary of panels, word balloons, gutters, and emotive iconography. Via this interplay, comics in their various genres draw on a broad palette of expressive technologies to tell a wide range of stories, and from the mainstream to the underground, from webcomics to hardbound graphic novels, comics reach an incredibly diverse audience. Artists and readers alike find in comics an opportunity to create graphic narratives of epic heroism and intimate detail, reflecting both the greatest hopes and the smallest challenges of human experience.
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Whalen, Z., Foss, C., Gray, J.W. (2016). Introduction: From Feats of Clay to Narrative Prose/thesis. In: Foss, C., Gray, J.W., Whalen, Z. (eds) Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives. Literary Disability Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137501110_1
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