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Q&A Do I quote the author or artist from a comic? MLA

I understand that if you are quoting something that a character said, that you would do the usual (Author's Last name, Page number), but what if you're quoting a scene? I'd go with quoting the...

posted 6y ago by Liquid‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-13T11:56:48Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T10:20:22Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T10:20:22Z (almost 5 years ago)
> I understand that if you are quoting something that a character said, that you would do the usual (Author's Last name, Page number), but what if you're quoting a scene?

I'd go with quoting the last names of both Author and Artist and the page number as bottom text (depending on what style you are using for your citations).Something along the lines of "_from The amazing animal-man, issue 23, page 2, Smith and Wesson_".

If you want to be even more specifc, you could quote the exact panel, but that would work best inside your argument. Let's assume you are discussing the portrayal of grief in comic books, then you could say:

> _"... the topic is central to said issue. In the first panel from the left of page 2, we can see how the artists has ..."_

I would do the same for the "Works Cited" page. I suppose you could omit the artist last name if you are just interested in the script of a given comic, but that does not seem to be your case and generally I would advise against that. Sometime artists and authors work closely together, no reason to avoid giving attribution to the artist.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-12-11T10:14:18Z (almost 6 years ago)
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