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Analysis reveals tensions in narrative and depiction in comics, suggesting new interpretations of the medium.
‘The science of comics’ explores foundational but typically unstated contradictions underlying narratives in the comics medium through metafictional disruptions of its formal conventions, revealing inherent tensions of depicting time, movement and three-dimensionality in static, two-dimensional images.
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