How Children Interpret Comics
Neil Cohn summarizes a 1986 study by Michael J. Pallenik which examines the ways that children interpret a particular comics story at different ages. Titled "A Gunman in Town! Children Interpret a Comic," the paper reports the results of showing the same comics story to children of varying race, class, age and gender and soliciting responses on a panel-by-panel basis. The study originally ran in Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication. The comics story in question is from a 1955 issue of Western Outlaws.
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Apparently several adult guest reviewers on BBC radio also have problems when it comes to the 'interpretation' of comicbooks, or 'graphic novels'. I pictured them scratching and sniffing at the covers, and nudging the things around the table, a little like a dog when it approaches a defence-minded hedgehog. I blogged on it, but the original article is here:
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/thomas_sutcliffe/article3119252.ece
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