The document discusses comics textual analysis and audiences. It covers key topics for analyzing comics like palette, design, layout, representation, narrative, audience and genre. It also discusses intended audiences, how comics attract audiences and potential uses/gratifications. The document then covers regulation of comics through the Comics Code Authority and details parts of the 1954 Comics Code regarding depictions of crime, violence and sexuality. Finally, it briefly introduces some major comic book institutions like DC Comics, Marvel Comics and D.C. Thomson & Co.

1. GCSE MEDIA STUDIES COMICS TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

2. PALETTE DESIGN AND LAYOUT REPRESENTATION NARRATIVE AUDIENCE GENRE

3. PALETTE DESIGN AND LAYOUT REPRESENTATION NARRATIVE AUDIENCE GENRE

4. PALETTE DESIGN AND LAYOUT REPRESENTATION NARRATIVE AUDIENCE GENRE

5. PALETTE DESIGN AND LAYOUT REPRESENTATION NARRATIVE AUDIENCE GENRE

6. PALETTE DESIGN AND LAYOUT REPRESENTATION NARRATIVE AUDIENCE GENRE

7. GCSE MEDIA STUDIES COMICS AUDIENCES

8. AUDIENCES WHO IS THE INTENDED AUDIENCE? COULD THERE BE MORE THAN ONE AUDIENCE? WHAT USES AND GRATIFICATIONS MIGHT THIS COMIC OFFER? HOW DOES IT ATTEMPT TO ATTRACT AN AUDIENCE?

9. AUDIENCES WHO IS THE INTENDED AUDIENCE? COULD THERE BE MORE THAN ONE AUDIENCE? WHAT USES AND GRATIFICATIONS MIGHT THIS COMIC OFFER? HOW DOES IT ATTEMPT TO ATTRACT AN AUDIENCE?

10. AUDIENCES WHO IS THE INTENDED AUDIENCE? COULD THERE BE MORE THAN ONE AUDIENCE? WHAT USES AND GRATIFICATIONS MIGHT THIS COMIC OFFER? HOW DOES IT ATTEMPT TO ATTRACT AN AUDIENCE?

11. AUDIENCES WHO IS THE INTENDED AUDIENCE? COULD THERE BE MORE THAN ONE AUDIENCE? WHAT USES AND GRATIFICATIONS MIGHT THIS COMIC OFFER? HOW DOES IT ATTEMPT TO ATTRACT AN AUDIENCE?

12. AUDIENCES AND REGULATION MORAL PANICS Seduction of the Innocent was a book by Dr. Fredric Wertham , published in 1954 , that warned that comic books were a bad form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency . The book was a minor bestseller that created alarm in parents and galvanized them to campaign for censorship. At the same time, a U.S. Congressional inquiry was launched into the comic book industry, and the Comics Code Authority was voluntarily established by publishers to self-censor their titles.

13. REGULATION The Comics Code Authority ( CCA ) is part of the Comics Magazine Association of America (CMAA), and was created to regulate the content of comic books in the United States. Member publishers submit comic books to the CCA, which screens them for conformance to its Comics Code, and authorizes the use of their seal on the cover if the books comply. At the height of its influence, it was a de facto censor for the U.S. comic book industry.

14. REGULATION 1954 Code highlights Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals. If crime is depicted it shall be as a sordid and unpleasant activity. Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation. In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds. Scenes of excessive violence shall be prohibited. Scenes of brutal torture, excessive and unnecessary knife and gunplay, physical agony, gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated. No comic magazine shall use the word horror or terror in its title.

15. REGULATION All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted. All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated. Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly, nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader. Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited. Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings are forbidden. Nudity in any form is prohibited, as is indecent or undue exposure. Suggestive and salacious illustration or suggestive posture is unacceptable.

16. REGULATION Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities. Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. Violent love scenes as well as sexual abnormalities are unacceptable. Seduction and rape shall never be shown or suggested. Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden. Nudity with meretricious purpose and salacious postures shall not be permitted in the advertising of any product; clothed figures shall never be presented in such a way as to be offensive or contrary to good taste or morals.

17. GCSE MEDIA STUDIES COMICS INSTITUTIONS

18. INSTITUTIONS DC COMICS subsidiary of Time Warner responsible for some of comics' most famous characters, including Superman , Batman , Wonder Woman etc More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics

19. INSTITUTIONS MARVEL COMICS best-known comics titles include The Amazing Spider-Man , Fantastic Four , The Incredible Hulk , Iron Man , Daredevil , Thor , Captain America and X-Men . Tended to create darker ‘anti-heroes’, unlike DC’s more straightforward ‘good guys’. More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics

20. INSTITUTIONS D.C. Thomson & Co. Best known for producing The Dandy and The Beano produces more than 200 million comic books , magazines , and newspapers every year More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._C._Thomson_%26_Co._Ltd