Moreover, I find many of the assumptions about language (and a theoretical relationship between language and images) that underpin her argument highly suspect and not terribly well thought out. I mentioned Miodrag’s Comics and Language last time as a recent monograph that potentially addressed many of the same problems I saw in Cohn’s work, and, though he does come in for a not terribly favorable review, I am happy to say that hers and my criticisms do not really overlap. Normally, dear reader, in this blog I prefer to stick to a somewhat narrowly circumscribed manga purview, but because what I have to say today relates quite well to what I had to say last time about Neil Cohn’s visual language research, I thought it might be worth straying into my larger, comparative comics studies interests.
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