Alexander Dunst is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany Jochen Laubrock is Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Potsdam, Germany Janina Wildfeuer is Researcher in Multimodal Linguistics at Bremen University, Germany

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgement 1 Comics and Empirical Research: An Introduction (Alexander Dunst, Jochen Laubrock, Janina Wildfeuer) I Digital Approaches to Comics Research 2 Two Per Cent of What? Constructing a Corpus of Typical American Comic Books (Bart Beaty, Nick Sousanis, Benjamin Woo) 3 The Quantitative Analysis of Comics: Towards a Visual Stylometry of Graphic Narrative (Alexander Dunst, Rita Hartel) 4 "The Spider’s Web": An Analysis of Fan Mail from Amazing Spider-Man, 1963-1995 (John Walsh, Shawn Martin, Jennifer St. Germain) 5 Crowdsourcing Comics Annotations (Mihnea Tufis and Jean-Gabriel Ganasci) 6 Computer Vision Applied to Comic Book Images (Christophe Rigaud and Jean-Christophe Burie) II Linguistics and Multimodal Analysis 7 From Empirical Studies to Visual Narrative Organization: Exploring Page Composition (John A. Bateman, Annika Beckmann, Rocio Varela) 8 Character Developments in Comics and Graphic Novels: A Systematic Analytical Scheme (Chiao-I Tseng, Jochen Laubrock, Jana Pflaeging) 9 How Informative are Information Comics in Science Communication? Empirical Results from an Eye Tracking Study and Knowledge Testing (Hans-Jürgen Bucher, Bettina Boy) 10 The Interpretation of an Evolving Line Drawin (Pascal Lefèvre, Gert Meesters) III Cognitive Processing and Comprehension 11 Viewing Static Visual Narratives Through the Lens of the Scene Perception and Event Comprehension Theory (SPECT) (Lester Loschky, John P. Hutson, Maverick E. Smith, Tim J. Smith, Joseph P. Magliano) 12 Attention to Comics: Cognitive Processing during Reading of Graphic Literature (Jochen Laubrock, Sven Hohenstein, Matthias Kümmerer) 13 Reading Words and Images: Factors Influencing Eye Movements in Comic Reading (Clare Kirtley, Christopher Murray, Phillip B. Vaughan, Benjamin W. Tatler) 14 Detecting Differences Between Adapted Narratives: Implication of Order of Modality on Exposure (Joseph P. Magliano, James Clinton, Edward J. O’Brien, David N. Rapp) 15 Visual Language Theory and the Scientific Study of Comics (Neil Cohn) Glossary List of Contributors Index