Zeitschrift für Semiotik/Journal of Semiotics
September 2024, vol. 45, no. 1-2/2023, 209 pages.
EUR 65,00
ISBN 978-3-95809-680-6
ComFor-members Stephan Packard and Janina Wildfeuer have just published an English special issue on “Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research” in Journal of Semiotics. Online access is planned for Summer 2025.
Summary:
“This special issue on innovative methods in multimodal comics research brings together linguistic as well as inter- and transdisciplinary contributions engaging with the semiotic and multimodal wealth of comics, graphic novels, and other forms of visual narratives. The contributions connect to recent research with new challenges and solutions and engage in dialogue across various approaches to the multimodality of comics. In our introduction to the issue, we want to address this ‘multimodality of comics’ further and give some explanatory notes on our understanding of this concept and the development of the field of research connected to it.”
Articles:
Janina Wildfeuer and Stephan Packard: “Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research: Introduction”
John A. Bateman: “Multimodal Semiotics for the Analysis of Comics and Graphic Novels”
Lauren Edlin and Joshua Reiss: “Measuring Inter-Subjective Agreement on Units and Attributions in Comics with Annotation Experiments”
Miloš Tasic: “Visualising an Oral Epic: Lobacev’s Comic Book Tsar Dušan’s Wedding”
Lukas R.A. Wilde: “Unreliable Iconicity, or: Accounting for the Cartoonish Pictures of Comics in Multimodal Reasoning”
Stephan Packard: “Multimodal Cohesion in Panel Graphs: A Pragmaticist Approach to the Gap Between Comics Grammar and Aesthetics”