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Comic Art: Characteristics and Potentialities of a Narrative Medium, Abbott (1986)
Abbott’s article from 1986 seems to be one of the earlier examples in English that takes a more formal approach to discussing comics. Most of what I have that pre-dates this is in French (with a few exceptions). I did a citation search in a few places to see if there was much discussion about this article, but I found little. It’s cited a few times, mostly, I think, because it was a scholarly source that could be cited on comics for some common sense elements of comics (words affect the pictures, pictures affect the words).
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Campbell on Reading
Just read what this one author has to give you. And then you can go read what he had read. And the world opens up in a way that is consistent with a certain point of view. Campbell, Joseph. “The Power of Myth.” Quoted by Austin Kleon, “The Power of Myth and Joseph Campbell on [...]