Navigating comics: an empirical and theoretical approach to strategies of reading comic page layouts

Like the sequence of words in written language, comic book page layouts direct images into a deliberate reading sequence. Conventional wisdom would expect that comic panels follow the order of text: left-to-right and down—a Z-path—though several layouts can violate this order, such as Gestalt groupi...

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Main Author: Neil eCohn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00186/full