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Unlike regular books, paintings, or movies, comics are collectively no better nor worse than other media, but simply different Hence, the terminology of "comic" itself is a widely debated point in comic scholarship. For example, in the book of critical essays on comics by Varnum and Gibbons [2], the definition of comics is compiled as "a narrative form consisting of pictures arranged in sequence," (p. xvi). Beforehand, comic book creator Eisner [3] (1985) specified comic as "sequential art" or "the arrangement of pictures or images and words to narrate a story or dramatize an idea," (p. 5). McCloud [4] later revised the term of comic as "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in a deliberate sequence, invented to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer," (p. 5). In contrast, Cohn [5] was critical towards a definition of comic as a language. As a substitute, he stated that comics are social artefacts that communicated in visual language.
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