Comics vocabulary

The vocabulary of comics consists of the many different techniques and images which comics artists will employ in order to convey a narrative within the medium of comics.

Emanata

Mort Walker defined the iconic representations used within comics and cartooning as emanata.{{fn|2}} Examples being the lightbulb above a character's head to indicate an idea, the indication of sleep by a saw cutting a log or a line of "zzzz", and the use of dotted lines to indicate a line of sight, with daggers being used instead of dotted lines to indicate an evil look.

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