{"product_id":"9781350381605","title":"Patterns of Comics Visual Languages of Comics from Asia, Europe, and North America","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePatterns of Comics\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eVisual Languages of Comics from Asia, Europe, and North America\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eNeil Cohn\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage Arts \u0026amp; Disciplines \/ Linguistics \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eComics are a global phenomenon, and yet it's easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics from Asia, Europe, or the United States\u003c\/b\u003e. But, do the structures of these visual narratives differ in more subtle ways? Might these comics actually be drawn in different visual languages that vary in their structures across cultures?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To address these questions, \u003ci\u003eThe Patterns of Comics\u003c\/i\u003e seeks evidence through a sustained analysis of an annotated corpus of over 36,000 panels from more than 350 comics from Asia, Europe, and the United States. This data-driven approach reveals the cross-cultural variation in symbology, layout, and storytelling between various visual languages, and shows how comics have changed across 80 years. It compares, for example, the subtypes within American comics and Japanese manga, and analyzes the formal properties of Bill Watterson's \u003ci\u003eCalvin and Hobbes\u003c\/i\u003e across its entire 10-year run. Throughout, it not only uncovers the patterns in and across the panels of comics, but shows how these regularities in the visual languages of comics connect to the organizing principles of all languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNeil Cohn\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning cognitive scientist known for pioneering research on language, graphics, multimodality, and cognition, and Associate Professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His books \u003ci\u003eThe Visual Language of Comics\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2013) and the 2021 Eisner-nominated \u003ci\u003eWho Understands Comics?\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2020), establish the linguistic and cognitive study of graphic communication.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28 December 2023\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350381605\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e304\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20.64\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57327937912972,"sku":"9781350381605","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_fc8142e5-acca-4dcf-baf4-d9b8dc90d298.jpg?v=1789056177","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350381605","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}