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Roberto Bartual

Madrid, Spain
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Novelista (psicogeografía y ci-fi) y teórico del cómic. Blitzkrieg!, Díptico Espiritista y La secuencia gráfica. Prof. en la Universidad de Valladolid.
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Visual Metaphor in Comics. An Incomplete Taxonomy

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By Roberto Bartual
| The Comics Grid
In comics, images are much more than merely a component of a narrative. Sometimes they are also conceived to channel metaphorical information. They are built to express a kind of poetry. This is easy to see in strips such one of the boxing match variants that Neil Cohn drew to illustrate how metaphor works in the comics medium (Cohn 2019). A fighter is about to hit another, but instead of a punch, what we get is an atomic explosion (Figure 1).
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