The author investigates documentary comics in its unique relationship to framing: graphic narratives are essentially shaped by a reciprocal relationship between the manifest frames on the page and the attention to the cognitive frames that they generate.
Johannes C. P. Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany.
1. Introduction: Comics Framing and the Construction of Facts.- 2. Framing Actuality: Frame Theory, Graphic Narrative, and (Post-)Documentary.- 3. Material Framing: The Paratext.- 4. Visual Framing: From the Line to the Multiframe.- 5. Narrative Framing: Storytelling, Structures, and Perspectives.- 6. 1. Conclusion: Redrawing Boundaries in the Digital Age.
