Re: Will Eisner's "technical comics"

Hi José,

Actually I'm familiar with those, but thanks anyway! Aware that I'm  
posting to a list, just to say that my recently/almost completed PhD  
focusses on models for graphic description (specifically for book  
design, but this encompasses many levels and dimensions of analysis).  
I ended up integrating two of Twyman's schemas into my own framework;  
the 1979 one, and the one he proposes in an article of 1985 for  
pictorial forms (illustrations, photographs, diagrams)

I hadn't read the Horn article though, what year was it published? his  
bibliography reads eerily like a chunk of mine -- right down to  
Macauley's The Way Things Work!

Gotta mention another compendium (another big round table?): Yuri  
Engelhardt's PhD thesis 'The Language of Graphics' (2002), though his  
work emphasizes models for diagrams and maps, he includes Eisner and  
McCloud…

K


On 17 Jul 2008, at 17:32, Jose de Souza wrote:

> Hi Katherine,
>
>
> As far as I know, Robert E. Horn was one the first one to put  
> "around the same table" the following "Systematizers and Analysts"  
> of graphic language:
>
> "Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics (1993) and Will Eisner's
> Comics and Sequential Art (1985) are excellent analyses of one  
> "dialect" of
> visual language, the comic book. William Bowman (1968) produced an
> important early taxonomy of graphic communication, while Michael
> Twyman (1973) has provided an important analysis of how many types of
> static information design direct eye movement."
> (Information Design: Emergence of a New Profession, p. 19)
>
> These are the references:
>
> Bowman, William J. 1968. Graphic Communication. New York John Wiley.
>
> Twyman, Michael A. 1979. Schema for the Study of Graphic Language.  
> In The Processing
> of Visible Language P. A. Kolers, M. E. Wrolstad, and H. Bouma, eds.  
> New York: Plenum.
>
> McCloud, Scott. 1993. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art.  
> Northampton, Mass.:
> Kitchen Sink Press.
>
>
>

Katherine Gillieson
www.115.org.uk
www.rdg.ac.uk/typography

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