3.: Two examples of famous comics parodies: a "Superduperman", in Mad #4 (May 1953). By W. Wood, H. Kurtzman. A satirical story of Superman and Captain America. In these panels, the author ridicules the famous scene where Clark Kent (here, Clark Bent) changes into Super(duper)man inside a phone booth. Credit: Wally Wood, Fair use. b The first appearance of Howard the Duck, a parody of "funny animals" (e.g., Donald Duck), later featuring in several other stories that satirise famous comics and important moments in comics history. Source: "The Enchanter's Apprentice", in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. 1973). By S. Gerber(w), V. Mayerik (p), S. Trapani (i), S. Goldberg (col.), A. Simek (let.), R. Thomas (ed). New York: Marvel Comics Group., Fair use.

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A characterisation of comics and sequential art for supporting the evolution of digital formats for comics : a crowdsourcing approach

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Apr 2017

Mihnea Tufis

We address the difficulty of creating a digitised corpus by using a crowdsourced approach for annotating comic books. The resulting XML-based encodings assist researchers, publishers and collection curators equally. To achieve our data collection goal, we develop an online crowdsourcing engine for annotating comics. The tasks are designed to mirror...