- Department of Media and Cultural Studies and Journalism
Faculty of Arts
Palacký University
Třída Svobody 26
771 47 Olomouc
Czech Republic
- Palacky University, Olomouc, Centre for Comics Studies, Faculty MemberPalacky University, Olomouc, Centre for Cultural, Media and Communication Studies, Faculty Memberadd
- Comics studies scholaredit
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Abstract. The paper explores ways of representing smiles and laughter in comics. First a semiotic delimitation of comics is proposed, which can be understood as a code that operates in one sensory channel and simulates receptive... more
Abstract. The paper explores ways of representing smiles and laughter in comics. First a semiotic delimitation of comics is proposed, which can be understood as a code that operates in one sensory channel and simulates receptive synaesthesia. The roots of the expression of smiles within the pictorial code are found in the work of the cartoonists of the 18th and 19th centuries who created early examples of sequential art, thus establishing the tradition of later picture stories and comics. The paper then focuses on how the acoustic dimensions of laughter are represented by typographical means in comics, for example by using graphical conventions of lettering and font design. Different types of smiles and laughter are demonstrated by illustrative examples from a range of genres and styles, from the ligne claire through distinctive cartoon drawings to realistic artwork. The results are discussed in the broader context of the expression of emotions in comics. Zusammenfassung. Der Artike...
This article focuses on the defining of comics as an ‘amalgam’ in which the verbal category merges with the pictorial/iconic. The articles first discusses the concepts of the literary and the pictorial and then points out that these are... more
This article focuses on the defining of comics as an ‘amalgam’ in which the verbal category merges with the pictorial/iconic. The articles first discusses the concepts of the literary and the pictorial and then points out that these are discrete aesthetic categories, independent of the category of artistry. The author then moves on to selected phenomena that occur in the space between these two concepts: the picture book or illustrated book, and the book as artefact or visual poetry, particularly from an historical perspective. Apart from the explicit links with comics, a few phenomena important for defining its limits are highlighted. The author then specifies the opinion held hitherto that there is an opposition between the ‘verbal’ and the ‘pictorial’ in distinguishing between the two, and this opposition is also problematized. The mutual relations between word and picture are outlined in general terms and mainly in comics. In some means of expression the boundary between the two...
Research Interests: Art and česká Literatura
This article focuses on the defining of comics as an ‘amalgam’ in which the verbal category merges with the pictorial/iconic. The articles first discusses the concepts of the literary and the pictorial and then points out that these are... more
This article focuses on the defining of comics as an ‘amalgam’ in which the verbal category merges with the pictorial/iconic. The articles first discusses the concepts of the literary and the pictorial and then points out that these are discrete aesthetic categories, independent of the category of artistry. The author then moves on to selected phenomena that occur in the space between these two concepts: the picture book or illustrated book, and the book as artefact or visual poetry, particularly from an historical perspective. Apart from the explicit links with comics, a few phenomena important for defining its limits are highlighted. The author then specifies the opinion held hitherto that there is an opposition between the ‘verbal’ and the ‘pictorial’ in distinguishing between the two, and this opposition is also problematized. The mutual relations between word and picture are outlined in general terms and mainly in comics. In some means of expression the boundary between the two...
Research Interests: Art and česká Literatura
Der Artikel untersucht die Darstellung von Lachen und Lächeln im Comic. Eingangs wird eine semiotische Abgrenzung des Comics als eigenständiger Kode vorgeschlagen, der im einkanaligen Medium operiert und eine rezeptive Synästhesie... more
Der Artikel untersucht die Darstellung von Lachen und Lächeln im Comic. Eingangs wird eine semiotische Abgrenzung des Comics als eigenständiger Kode vorgeschlagen, der im einkanaligen Medium operiert und eine rezeptive Synästhesie simuliert. Die Wurzeln der Darstellung des Lächelns im Bildkode werden bei den Karikaturisten des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts verortet, die auch Bildsequenzen schufen, welche später die Tradition der Bildergeschichten und Comics einleiteten. Anschließend wird die akustische Dimension des Lachens fokussiert. Sie wird im Comic-Kode durch typographische Mittel repräsentiert, die auch andere Arten nonverbalen vokalen Verhaltens darstellen und Bedeutungen von verbalen Äußerungen präzisieren und modifizieren können. Die untersuchte Thematik wird anhand von Comicbeispielen demonstriert, die unterschiedlichen Comicgenres und -stilen (von der ligne claire bis zur realistischen Darstellung) angehören. Abschließend werden die Ergebnisse im Kontext der Erforschung von Em...