books.google.com.au - From Gary Larson's The Far Side to George Herriman's Krazy Kat, comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they use word balloons to represent the speech and thought of depicted characters. Art historians have studied...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_aesthetics_of_comics.html?id=pKINAQAAMAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe aesthetics of comics
Interesting and well researched, but limited in that it wants to make comic strips representative of the entire art form, among other strangely delimiting moves.Read full review