A diverse study of how words and pictures interact in comics to make messages

The Language of Comics provides a history of comics from the end of the nineteenth century to the present and explores the 'semiotics of comics'.

Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most p

Metaphor pervades discourse and may govern how we think and act. But most studies only discuss its verbal varieties. This book examines metaphors drawing on com