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  • Picture-Reading in Comics, Prose, and Poetry

  • Hannah H. Kim
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy , FirstView
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 December 2024, pp. 1-14
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  • Comics are one of the paradigmatic forms of hybrid media, and coming up with a satisfactory definition for it has been difficult. Cowling, S. & Wesley D. C. (2022) take a functional approach and offer an Intentional Picture-Reading View which defines comics as something that is “aptly intended to be picture-read.” I show that the view is extensionally inadequate as is because formally ambitious prose and concrete poetry, too, are aptly intended to be picture-read. The way forward, I argue, is to look at more medium-specific non-depictive images (such as speech balloons and panels) to set comics apart from other hybrid media.