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Quantitative Analyse zu Strukturmerkmalen und -veränderung im Medium Comic am Beispiel: ACTION COMICS

How 73 years of comic history can influence the formal structure of a single comic series, is a very interesting and intriguing question from an image sci-ence point of view. However, these kinds of studies are rarely conducted and there is still a lot to explore in the medium of comic. The following work is the outcome of applying recent theoretical comic research methods in a practical manner. For the analysis the parameters are derived from the standard film analysis protocol, modified for the actual comic analysis protocol. We com-pare panel size and panel semiotic, camera perspective, shot (field of view), and the proportion of textual sections to show tendencies and development of the comic series and mentioned parameters.