Journal•ISSN: 2040-3232
Studies in Comics
Intellect
About: Studies in Comics is an academic journal published by Intellect. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Comics & Narrative. It has an ISSN identifier of 2040-3232. Over the lifetime, 136 publications have been published receiving 590 citations.
Topics: Comics, Narrative, Computer science, Politics, Comics studies
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TL;DR: McCloud as discussed by the authors argued that sequential images are guided by a notion that time = space, because this temporal passage occurs on a spatial surface, and that this sense of temporality is the essence of comics.
Abstract: The juxtaposition of two images often produces the illusory sense of time passing, as found in the visual language used in modern comic books, which creates the sense that this linear sequence presents a succession of moments or temporal units. Author and theorist Scott McCloud took this view to an extreme, proposing that sequential images are guided by a notion that ‘time = space’ (McCloud 2000), because this temporal passage occurs on a spatial surface. To McCloud, this ‘temporal mapping’ results in a movement of time with a movement of space. This sense of temporality, then, is the ‘essence’ of comics, which is manifested in McCloud’s taxonomy of transitions of panel-to-panel relationships (McCloud 1993). While less specific, this same type of ‘essence’ of connection can be reflected in Groensteen’s types of ‘arthrology’ across a linear sequence or disparate panels in a broader text (Groensteen 1999).
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