The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema: A Transmedial Approach KU Leuven
This thesis deals with the notion of "clear line", a term coined in 1977 by the essayist and comics author Joost Swarte to describe Hergé's style, but also that of some artists who can be considered his precursors, and of the creators who followed or parodied his work. It refers both to purely graphic and to intermedial narrative solutions, which work together to produce storytelling strategies that presuppose a deceptively simple, clear and ...