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. 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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Comics artist: A comics artist is an artist working within the comics medium. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, from those who oversee all aspects of the work to those who contribute only a part....

Narrative: In non-technical terms, no matter what the context (whether scientific, philosophical, legal, etc) a narrative is a story, an interpretation of some aspect of the world that is historically and culturally grounded and shaped by human personality (per Walter Fisher). Derived from the Latin word, it c...

Medium: The word medium (from Latin, in which it means, "the one in the middle") can have different meanings in different contexts. Usually it has something to do with either a material substance, or a form of mediation....

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