

It will identify the leading theorists within the field, and take into account their definitions whilst at the same time establishing a set of categories within which can be defined the dominant trends in the development of the field. This essay will explore the existing definitions of art games that are currently being used in the art game/art mod genre.

Unpublished Masters Thesis under maiden name - Phillipa Stalker. Section 5 briefly suggests how other cognitive approaches may benefit cartoons and comics research and vice versa, and in the final section some concluding remarks are made.

In section 2 the bare bones of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Blending Theory will be sketched in what, for reasons of space, cannot be more than mere sound bites – just enough to help understand the use that cartoon and comics scholars in the ensuing sections (3 and 4), make of these theories. No claim to exhaustiveness can be made I will simply discuss a number of publications I am aware of that analyze comics and cartoons from a perspective inspired by Cognitive Linguistics (CL), specifically by Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and Blending Theory (BT). In this chapter I will report on cognitivist-oriented work done in the area of comics and cartoons – the latter here considered as standalone varieties of comics that humorously criticize people (often politicians) and events in the world.
