Mario Saraceni is Lecturer at Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand.

'Its innovative approach and accessibility are some of its great assets. More importantly, the beauty of comics is never lost in the book's serious examination of comics. I am confident that the book will be an informative and pleasurable read to many readers across a number of disciplines.' – Discourse & Society

• Unit one: What are comics? Historical overview; How comic are comics? The components of comics; The panel; The gutter; The balloon; The caption; Unit two: Words and pictures; The blend between words and pictures; Semiotics and the idea of the sign; Looking at words; The visual aspect of words in comics; Reading pictures; Pictures in comics; The collaboration between words and pictures; Unit three: Between the panels; Cartoons, comics and language; Cohesion; Repetition; Coherence; Semantic field; Inference: bridging the gaps; Summary 56 Unit four: The voices of comics; Fictional voices: can you hear them? Who’s speaking? Thought presentation: reading the characters’ minds; Voices in comics; Thought balloons; Unit five: The eyes of comics; What does ‘point of view’ mean? Deictics; Unit six: Comics and computers; Comics in computers? Cartoons on your desktop? Words and comics; Artists with mice.

Mario Saraceni is Lecturer at Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand.

'Its innovative approach and accessibility are some of its great assets. More importantly, the beauty of comics is never lost in the book's serious examination of comics. I am confident that the book will be an informative and pleasurable read to many readers across a number of disciplines.' – Discourse & Society

• Unit one: What are comics? Historical overview; How comic are comics? The components of comics; The panel; The gutter; The balloon; The caption; Unit two: Words and pictures; The blend between words and pictures; Semiotics and the idea of the sign; Looking at words; The visual aspect of words in comics; Reading pictures; Pictures in comics; The collaboration between words and pictures; Unit three: Between the panels; Cartoons, comics and language; Cohesion; Repetition; Coherence; Semantic field; Inference: bridging the gaps; Summary 56 Unit four: The voices of comics; Fictional voices: can you hear them? Who’s speaking? Thought presentation: reading the characters’ minds; Voices in comics; Thought balloons; Unit five: The eyes of comics; What does ‘point of view’ mean? Deictics; Unit six: Comics and computers; Comics in computers? Cartoons on your desktop? Words and comics; Artists with mice.

Mario Saraceni is Lecturer at Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand.

'Its innovative approach and accessibility are some of its great assets. More importantly, the beauty of comics is never lost in the book's serious examination of comics. I am confident that the book will be an informative and pleasurable read to many readers across a number of disciplines.' – Discourse & Society

• Unit one: What are comics? Historical overview; How comic are comics? The components of comics; The panel; The gutter; The balloon; The caption; Unit two: Words and pictures; The blend between words and pictures; Semiotics and the idea of the sign; Looking at words; The visual aspect of words in comics; Reading pictures; Pictures in comics; The collaboration between words and pictures; Unit three: Between the panels; Cartoons, comics and language; Cohesion; Repetition; Coherence; Semantic field; Inference: bridging the gaps; Summary 56 Unit four: The voices of comics; Fictional voices: can you hear them? Who’s speaking? Thought presentation: reading the characters’ minds; Voices in comics; Thought balloons; Unit five: The eyes of comics; What does ‘point of view’ mean? Deictics; Unit six: Comics and computers; Comics in computers? Cartoons on your desktop? Words and comics; Artists with mice.