Coulton Waugh
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Frederick Coulton Waugh was a cartoonist, painter, teacher and author, best known for his illustration work on the comic strip Dickie Dare and his book The Comics (1947), the first major study of the field.
Coulton Waugh self-portrait
In 1945, Waugh employed a novel art approach on his strip Hank. According to Waugh, Hank was also "a deliberate attempt to work in the field of social usefulness."
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Comics studies
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Comics studies is an academic field that focuses on comics and sequential art. Although comics and graphic novels have been generally dismissed as less relevant pop culture texts, scholars in fields such as semiotics, aesthetics, sociology, composition studies and cultural studies are now re-considering comics and graphic novels as complex texts deserving of serious scholarly study.
Cartoonist and comics theorist Scott McCloud
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