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How Do Comics Artists Create Sound Effects In Spanish And English?, Frank Bramlett
How Do Comics Artists Create Sound Effects In Spanish And English?, Frank Bramlett
English Faculty Publications
In 2009, I happened upon a one-shot Spider-Man & Human Torch story. Side-by-side on the rack at my local comic book store were an English-language version and a Spanish-language version, both of which were called ¡Bahía de los Muertos! (literally Bay of the Dead). The Spanish version was also marked “Edición Boricua en Español,” meaning that it was the Puerto Rican edition. I’ve included two images, below. The one on the left is from the Spanish version and the one on the right is from the English. In panel 1, Johnny is getting hit by a monster. In panel …
Sublime Beauty & Horrible Fucking Things - The Finer Worlds Of Warren Ellis, William James Allred
Sublime Beauty & Horrible Fucking Things - The Finer Worlds Of Warren Ellis, William James Allred
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This work constitutes an in-depth discussion of the muted postmodern characteristics of contemporary comics writer and novelist Warren Ellis, highlighting his major long-form works within comics, Planetary, Transmetropolitan, StormWatch, and The Authority, as well as several shorter works such as Ocean, Orbiter, and Global Frequency. In addition, Ellis is situated within the British science fiction tradition, specifically, the British Boom movement which contains other comics writers such as Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore.
Remediating Blackness And The Formation Of A Black Graphic Historical Novel Tradition, Adam Kendall Coombs
Remediating Blackness And The Formation Of A Black Graphic Historical Novel Tradition, Adam Kendall Coombs
Masters Theses
This study attempts to establish the cross-currents of African American literary traditions and an emerging African American graphic novel aesthetic. A close analysis of the visuality foreground in the visual/textual space of the graphic novel will provide insight into how the form of the graphic novel reconciles and revises more traditional textual literary elements. Such motifs and tropes as the visuality of slave portraiture, Gates’ trope of the talking book, and the paradox of invisibility/visibility within African American creative registers will be used to highlight the creative tradition inaugurated by the African American graphic novel. Each of these elements generally …