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The Visual Language Research Corpus (VLRC) Project

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The Visual Language Research Corpus (VLRC) is comprised of annotations of a corpus of comics analyzing the structures in visual languages of the world.

Description

The VLRC includes ~36,000 coded panels from 300+ comics from Europe, Asia, and the United States, spanning across 80 decades of publication dates (1940-present), and various genres (e.g., superhero, indy, etc.). It also includes annotation of the entire run of the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip.

Comics have been analyzed for a variety of properties, including panel framing, situational relations between panels, external compositional structure (page layout), multimodality, and a variety of other structures.

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Topics

Stated by source
Arts and Humanities
From keywords
Humanities
Inferred from text
Linguistics 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
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