Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Computer vision and machine learning techniques for extracting comics from Belgian Illustrated Periodicals in the Interwar Period ...

Comics in the popular press provide illustrative markers of the state of a specific society, denoting notable events and people through often wordless commentary on life. The publication and circulation of comics in general-audience magazines remains a largely overlooked avenue of research for the humanities for literary history, comics and periodical studies. This is largely since comics as parts of periodicals and newspapers are not always indexed or cataloged, making it a tedious process to generate systematic corpora. The increasing digitization of the press provides new opportunities for... Mehr ...