Kapow! Zap! Splat! How comics make sound on the page
- Written by: Victor Araneda Jure, Teaching Associate / Filmmaker, Monash University
Unsplash/Joe Ciciarelli, CC BYTypically, comics are considered a silent medium. But while they don’t come with an aural soundtrack, comics have a unique grammar for sound.
From Wolverine’s SNIKT! when unsheathing his claws, to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in The Death of Stalin (later made into a film) the use of “textual...
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