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Watchmen offers a fine example of the comic book form, providing characters and narratives that can be enjoyed over and over again. Moreover, its complexity lends the book to critical analysis, and, for the purposes of the current essay, provides a wealth of examples, techniques, and characters idiomatic to the comic book form. But when people read Watchmen, perusing or even studying the comic panels, what are they doing? We are not referring here to any sort of metaphysical question or to queries aboutmotivation or engagement, although these certainly are interesting issues; rather, what cognitive processes and textual features guide readers’ attempts at comprehending the story? “Comprehending Comics and Graphic Novels: Watchmen as a Case for Cognition”, Travis White-Schwoch and David N. Rapp

Watchmen offers a fine example of the comic book form, providing characters and narratives that can be enjoyed over and over again. Moreover, its complexity lends the book to critical analysis, and, for the purposes of the current essay, provides a wealth of examples, techniques, and characters idiomatic to the comic book form.

But when people read Watchmen, perusing or even studying the comic panels, what are they doing? We are not referring here to any sort of metaphysical question or to queries aboutmotivation or engagement, although these certainly are interesting issues; rather, what cognitive processes and textual features guide readers’ attempts at comprehending the story?

“Comprehending Comics and Graphic Novels: Watchmen as a Case for Cognition”, Travis White-Schwoch and David N. Rapp

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