• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.10
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• pp.1-16
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• 2006

This thesis aims to recall the importance of language in comics by studying comic strips in Korean daily newspapers: the comic strips are analyzed for rhetorical puns in its language text as they representatively show the value and role of language in comics. Moreover, Korean comic strips, as they developed into current affairs comics, acquired a stronger media characteristic of communicating information compared to other genres of cartoons. As a result, comics strips have become a genre where language plays an important role and the words needing to be able to convey the meaning quickly and implicitly. Due to tight control of national authority, the language technique developed into an indirect expression rather than a stronger direct imaging technique. The political oppression of the comic strip paradoxically brought on the rhetorical development in the creative techniques. Based on this analysis, the writer studied the rhetorical puns of the texts Korean comic strips by implementing the classification techniques of rhetoric expressions. As a result, through quotes and analysis of actual comic strips, the writer confirmed that Korean comic strips do actually show tremendously vast rhetorical puns in its language application techniques. The writer was also able to conclude that the rhetorical puns in comics were the force entertaining and impressing the readers, and also acting as the creative principle. Concluding this study, the writer emphasizes that language, not only in comic strips, is a combination of words and images and is also an important factor in all cartoons in general. Thus the thesis proposes that the training of humanistic thoughts and linguistic sensitivity are as important as learning to draw in the creation of cartoons.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.83-91
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• 2011

The attribute of cartoon and comics has been known the combination of image and text. It is improved the we find the shape of comics at the first comics on the newspaper. But we can read the comic without word. These works don't give the difficult to read and it may transfer to readers by the image of figure on comics. Therefore how can the image reach the readers by the communication. This study is the research of the visual image communication and the attribute of wordless comics.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.32
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• pp.141-158
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• 2013

Comics are a genre that convey meaning through compositional arrangements of dialogue and images as well as through the flow of panels across a page. Communicating that meaning to readers through a combination of language and visual lexicons is the essential process of drawing comics, a process that in itself is significant. The semiotics of comics is a field of scholarship grounded in the broader discipline of semiotic theory in which all the components of comics, both visual and verbal, are the subject of study and research. By adopting a semiotic approach we are able to objectively analyze and understand the symbolic, social and ideological meanings embedded in the signs and sign processes expressed in comics. The fundamental pedagogical mission of teaching comics is to cultivate human nature through the study of theory as well as through the production and completion of original works that explore new modes of expression. To go further, interpreting those embedded meanings in the context of comics fosters effective and creative skills of expression that go beyond a mere fascination for the genre itself. In short, because the semiotic approach to understanding visual communication is the essence teaching comics, we can expect that the act of reading and creating comics plays a significant role in understanding visual communication.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.40
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• pp.177-209
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to determine the meaning and function of black and white in the comic strip, which are mounted on the book pages. The role of space in comic strip, compared to the role of time in the cinema, enable to feel the role of the time in the book. Therefore storytelling of comic strip has been placed in the inseparable relationship with space. My aim is to think about the black and white meaning in the visual media, especially the use of black and white which is highlighted in the comic strip. Black and white doesn't mean a loss of color in the comic strip but it works around 2 important notions : readability, modernity (with minimalism). In comic strip, 'black and white' is not a true colour but it is complex items which indicate symbolic significances. Moreover it is also a notion which enhance 'existence and absence' and 'visible and invisible'. That's why to analyze and to understand how the space is organized in comic strip page, i chose several examples extract from black and white comic strip.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.246-254
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• 2007

As for comics and animation, the specific gravity came to become still larger in all the art fields together with the importance in various image media now which is useful and goes the time of the 21st century new media. Especially the demand of users to the vision culture which develops day by day, Sensitivity Engineering Department is trying to realize the necessity for a sensitivity design acutely together. The influence of the comics which have toxicity most also in Japanese culture in a geographical position like South Korea on it, and animation is the actual condition in the reason which has reached from youth universally to the layer for years, to be inquired systematic to a Korean comics language. This research was conducted as we thought sufficient study on various situations are required, and among them for the research of expressions of cartoons's characters, we've divided the expressions of characters that comes out in Japanese cartoons into categories of 'happiness, anger, sadness, pleasure' and 'fear, astonishment and dislike' and based on these categories, we've drawn out the minimum elements to express emotions in cartoon and prepared image-map by relating them with languages that express emotions of people and based on this, we've made a calculating tools on how our readers would recognize the expression languages. Samples of Japanese cartoons of which we've chosen for the purpose of drawing out the elements of expressions were limited to only published cartoons and we've made a foot steps for expression analysis of animation characters in the future.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.107-108
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• 2011

일반적으로 문자가 있는 스토리만화는 이미지와 대사, 의성어, 의태어 등으로 상황과 이야기를 전달한다. 문자가 없이 그림과 효과선 감정기호와 같은 이미지 만으로 구성 되어지는 형식은 무언만화로 분류 되어진다. 스토리만화와 무언만화는 위의 형식적인 특징 이외에 장면 연출에 있어서도 차이가 매우 크다. 문자가 있는 스토리만화에서는 등장하는 캐릭터의 액션이나 대사와 함께 내레이션이 추가적으로 서술되어 지면서 장면전환이 이루어지고 있지만, 무언 만화에서는 오직 이미지 만으로 장면전환이 이루어지고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 '무언만화'로써 대표되는 마사시 타나카의 작품 <곤>과 J.C.므늬의 작품 <산란주의>를 중심으로 장면전환 시에 반복적으로 나타나는 무언만화 만의 연출적인 특징과 이미지가 가지는 '언어적 성격'에 대해 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.115-117
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• 2010

본 논문은 한 중 일 3개국에 널리 알려져 있는 고전문학<삼국지> 소재로 제작된 만화에 나타나는 캐릭터비교 연구이다. 캐릭터는 언어적 의미를 시각화해서 전달하는 감성적이고 효과적인 표현 전달 방법이다. 또한 만화 캐릭터는 시각적인 조형으로 만화속의 스토리를 이어나가는 핵심적인 요소이며, 고전 문학을 원형으로 하는 캐릭터는 문화원형의 속성을 지니며 그 원형이 지니고 있는 문화적 특징도 시각화하여 커뮤니케이션 대상에게 재미와 정보를 제공해준다. 고전문학<삼국지>를 원형으로 제작된 만화에 등장하는 캐릭터디자인에 대한 비교를 통해 알 수 있는바 3개국 캐릭터디자인특징은 3개국 문화 속에서 원인을 찾아 볼 수 있고, 자국 문화콘텐츠에서부터 출발해, 주변 국가 문화콘텐츠의 영향과 더불어, 시대적 트렌드에 알맞은 디자인접근 방식을 보여주고 있다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.227-231
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• 2006

As for comics and animation, the specific gravity came to become still larger in all the art fields together with the importance in various image media now which is useful and goes the time of the 21st century new media. Especially the demand of users to the vision culture which develops day by day, Sensitivity Engineering Department is trying to realize the necessity for a sensitivity design acutely together. The influence of the comics which have toxicity most also in Japanese culture in a geographical position like South Korea on it, and animation is the actual condition in the reason which has reached from youth universally to the layer for years, to be inquired systematic to a Korean comics language. This reserch was conducted as we thought sufficient study on various situations are required, and among them, for the reserch of expressions of cartoons's characters, we've divided the expressions of characters that comes out in Japanese cartoons into catagories of "happiness, anger, sadness, pleasure" and "fear, astonishment and dislike" and based on these catagories, we've drawn out the minimum elements to express emotions in cartoon and prepared image-map by relating them with languages that express emotions of people and based on this, we've made a calculating tools on how our readers would read the expression languages. Samples of Japanese cartoons of which we've chosen for the purpose of drawing out the elements of expressions were limited to only published cartoons and we've made a foot steps for expression analysis of animation characters in the future.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.24
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• pp.49-64
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• 2011

Comics is sequential art. In comics, the story is developped by its sequential panels which have their own sizes and sites. Accordingly, comics is closer to 'space' art than text. The reading order in a page of comic book follows the human long-standing reading habit, and it is the same as that of textbook. When we read a korean comic book, our eyes run from left to right, and downward on the page. But some factors related to panels or comic structures can change the typical reading order. Meanwhile, breaking the typical reading order is easier in the "infinite canvas" by reason of unconstrained spatial composition. This paper introduces the factors that change the comic book readers' reading order and proposes a tablet PC comic book layout which includes an arbitrary reading path using interaction

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.9
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• pp.266-282
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• 2005

Cartoon & Animated cartoon is consists of imaginal attributes and linguistic attributes, and it is closely connected with humor and satirical contents. And then various expressions using animals as matter communicate satirical attributes of a satire strongly and easily. On this article, techniques of satirical expression using animals in Cartoon & Animated cartoon media are studied and analyzed. By the method, it looks around briefly beginning from primitive cave paintings of the prehistoric age to various contemporary Cartoon & Animated cartoon character industries as historical background of Cartoon & Animated cartoon, and also arranges various types that literary expression and representation for visual expression techniques - metaphorical expressions, emblematic expressions, figure of speech and so forth - on literature. This attempt aims for presenting a basic analysis method that connecting and combining Cartoon & Animated cartoon media with humanistic classification and making database of existing data. These accumulated data will indicate cartoon and the action of meaning.