Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Language in Comics -- ch. One Arbitrary Minimal Units in Krazy Kat -- ch. Two Langue, Parole, and Constraint in the Cartoons of Lynda Barry -- ch. Three Language in Context: The Spatiality of Text in Comics -- pt. TWO Comics as Language -- ch. Four The Hybrid Question: Interaction or Fusion? -- ch. Five Comics as Network -- ch. Six Sequentiality as Realism -- pt. THREE Images as Language -- ch. Seven Asterios Polyp and the Structure of Visual Images -- ch. Eight Style, Expressivity, and Impressionistic Evaluation -- ch. Nine Composition: Continuity, Demarcation, and Nesting.