• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.32
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• pp.91-119
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• 2013

In recent years, the reader of comics get a chance to contact as well as korean comics, and foreign comics has increased to visibly. There was a relatively important progress also on international scale for mutual exchanges, but a variety of ways for the exposure of foreign comics can't help the reader to read easily the foreign comics. Socio-cultural differences also affects the choice of material, but it affects the format more fundamental. Format differences appear most, can be seen in the difference in narrative approach and medium (the book or the digital screen). This Article deals with two different comics, French and Korean comics. French comic is understood as other forms of literature, but the Korean is considered as a multi-media medium. This difference begins with cultural differences dealing with comics. It is also because the nature of the comics called hinge between the multi-media culture and culture of the books. This study will focus on the differences between the French comics which defend the value of the book and Korean Webtoons which suggest a new way in the digital environment. Through their differences, we can recognize the power of comics and can also predict its development in different medium.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.19
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• pp.89-112
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• 2010

Today many countries consider the culture and technology industry as a high value-added industry, and make intensive investments into cultural content for its growth. In the culture and technology industry, the OSMU (One Source Multi Use) business structure, which creates content using diverse media based on one original work and thus generates a high added value, has received much attention. Recently Korea has also witnessed an increase in the cases in which the cartoon medium is converted into movies or drama. Cartoons are now put to the most use as an original source, in which the process of active secondary reproduction and recreation are taking place. In the process of recreating original works, media characteristics function as an important variable. Stories are newly reproduced by the detailed information (form) characteristics of each medium. Despite those developments, however, there are not as many active comparative studies on media-converted works as there are actual productions of them, which calls for a need to more fully activate specific comparisons of cases. By comparing and investigating original works and secondarily recreated ones through media conversion, the study made comparisons between the cartoon and movie medium and described the common and different features of the two media in terms of detailed information characteristics. In order to provide a specific case, it also analyzed the cartoon Tajja and movie Tajja through media conversion, focusing on 'conversion of narrative structure.'

• 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.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.227-246
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to survey the reading reality of comic books for learning in elementary schools, to research the perceptions of students and their parents to reading comic books for learning, and to suggest the methods which librarians and teachers make use of the comic books for learning in their classes. For doing this, firstly 3 elementary schools were chosen and every school, 4 classes from 3rd year to 6th year, total 12 classes' students and their parents were searched. As the results of this, it's revealed that most of students have experiences of reading the comic books which are circulated in school libraries, etc., and both groups of students and their parents thought the comic books to help their academic achievement, and they have the thought that the reading comic books induce themselves to read the other normal books for more informations. It's suggested that the comic books for learning should be thought of the important media for teaching learning, and be utilized as the media for normal reading attitude s and habits of students in elementary school libraries.

• 프린팅코리아
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.82-83
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• 2009

만화는 남녀노소 누구나 즐길 수 있는 매체다. 한 컷의 만화를 통해서도 세상의 많은 의미를 해학적으로 혹은 독설적으로 표출할 수 있는 것이 만화가 갖는 큰 매력이다. 만화가 단순한 그림책이 아닌 시대를 반영하는 문화의 장르로 구분되는 연유도 여기에 있다. 최근에는 문자만 가득한 일반 광고물에 만화나 캐릭터 등을 가미시킨 독특한 광고들이 제작되는 등 광고 분야에도 만화가 활용되고 있다.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.2
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• pp.72-92
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• 1998

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.640-642
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• 2005

모바일 기술의 발전으로 인쇄 매체가 아닌 온라인 매체로 만화 콘텐츠를 제공받는 수요층이 늘어나고 있고, 모바일 단말기의 작은 화면 위에 기존 오프라인 만화를 브라우징하기 위한 새로운 기술에 대한 연구가 많이 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 큰 만화 콘텐츠를 영상의 의미 정보(배경이 아닌 모든 부분: 사람, 중요한 오브젝트, 문자)의 손실을 최소화하여, 기존의 오프라인 만화 콘텐츠를 모바일 단말기에 맞게 자동 변환 시스템 (Automatic Comics Conversion System: ACCS)을 제안한다. ACCS는 기존 만화 콘텐츠 영상의 각 페이지를 프레임 단위로 자르고 잘라진 프레임을 분할, 확대, 축소 등을 통해 모바일 단말기 화면 크기에 맞게 자동으로 변환한다.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.11
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• pp.1-10
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• 2007

The trend of making film from the comic source, which is a prototype of so-called media mix, is indeed a different phenomenon from the traditional ones from novel or play sources. Historically comics are recently adapted to film although they have narratives and continuity of images. It is due to the lack of social conception of comics genre and extension of imagination that is a characteristics of the comics. However, it is conspicuous that comics has been a source of film along with the development of technology of visual image reproduction and the trend of enlarging reproduction of popular media image. Since comics can provide narratives and he visual sense for film making, these trend will be continued and more vivid.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.27
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• pp.79-97
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• 2012

Comic book readers have respectively different reading speed and this means that time in comics is translated by readers' view. The authors arrange panels and gutters to control time, but time recognition in comics depends on the readers and generally it is the readers' role. On the contrary, the phenomenon having occurred by infinite canvas varied the authority of timing. Infinite canvas can give the comic book authors more authority of controlling timing than the readers by intervening in readers' relative time as an agents and transforming their fictive time into absolute time. Following to the concept of "Agency" in games, agency is the power which satisfies the players by reemergence of their intentions. Since some of digital comics absorbed the properties of other media such as animation and sound, we can see that the reader's timing agency is shifted to the author's timing agency. The purpose of this study is to analyse this phenomenon and to remind that agency motivated by the balance between material constraints and formal constraints becomes a condition of readability of digital comics but excessive timing constraints given to the readers causes a decrease of the readers' timing agency. This also can be a considerable matter when we produce digital comics.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.343-351
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• 2014

This study poses questions on the role of a movie sequences partially deployed in the comic strips style in the movie. Though both the movie and the comic strips's image is expressed in the flat space, it is different to the reciever's manner in the interpretation of the media's narrative. Comic strip has a media's characteristic of the aggressive interpretation. It can be create the objective and critic point of view for an audience as the visual style in the ideology movie. Comic strip Style has a flat frame, a form of comic strip's mise-en-scene, montage and camera working. This paper studies expression of 'La Chinoise' using 'Comic strip style' for the objective point of view.