Re: Corpora of comic strips/books

Dear Axel,

There is a web site called "Oh No Robot" (http://www.ohnorobot.com/)
which provides search services for web comics.  They use
"crowdsourcing" to have users transcribe the comics.  They've got
50,000 transcribed strips from 600 series at the moment.

Yours,
Chris Callison-Burch

Quoting Axel Herold <aherold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm planning to write my master's thesis on the nature of the dialog data
> from comic strips/books that might be seen somewhere in between spoken and
> written language. Is anyone of you aware of corpora containing comic texts
> (any language, though I'll focus on German)? Ideally the data should
> indicate speaker--utterance(s) relations.
>
> So far, I've seen a description of a comic corpus of bosnian, croatian and
> serbian comic series that was tailor made for a special survey on a slavic
> deictic system and marked up accordingly:
> http://tusnelda.sfb.uni-tuebingen.de/TUSNELDA/b8/comics/comicheader.html
>
> Any further pointers would be most welcome.
>
> Best regards, Axel Herold.
>
> --
> [...] er mißtraute den Worten, die sich euphonisch und rhythmisch fügten,
> mit dem behaglichen Schnurren, das den Leser hypnotisiert,
> nachdem der Schriftsteller als erster ihm zum Opfer gefallen ist.
>                                                       (Cortázar: Rayuela)