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The aim is to analyze how Lynn Johnston's comic strips use key elements like panels and captions over time.

Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse at Scale and in the Archives: Distant Viewing, Automated Annotation, and Formal Aesthetics in 10,516 Comic Strips

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The aim is to analyze how Lynn Johnston's comic strips use key elements like panels and captions over time.
Applied computational methods to a dataset of 10,516 comic strips
Conducted automated annotation to identify formal elements
Analyzed increases in open-bleed panels and average panel use in Sunday strips.
Identified key glitches in the dataset indicating formal experimentation
Noted significant increases in open-bleed panel usage over time
Highlighted variability in panel use across different comic strip formats.

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This article demonstrates formal experimentation in comic strips, encouraging new interpretations of Johnston's work.

Justin Wigard (2024) studied this question.

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