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The Comics Archive Became a Study of Who Appears and Who Speaks
PAGE combines machine annotation with a written codebook and human checks.
Summary
PAGE combines machine annotation with a written codebook and human checks.
The framework parses scans into panels, text and bibliographic records, then grounds sampled model readings in human annotation. Its demonstrations span 3,929 American comic books and 87 manga volumes, examining political portrayal, visual form and dialogue. The paper proposes archive research tools rather than replacing human scholarship.
Why it matters
PAGE combines machine annotation with a written codebook and human checks.
Limits and context
No additional limitation was separately recorded.
Key claims
PAGE combines machine annotation with a written codebook and human checks.
Evidence: source-2026-10-12-020
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2610.13840, original v1arXiv / submitting research authors · primary research
Corrections
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