Studying Comics at Scale with Artificial Intelligence: The PAGE Framework and Three Studies of American Comics and Japanese Manga

arXiv:2610.13840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comics are one of the great visual records of the twentieth century: hundreds of thousands of pages in which a mass readership saw its leaders, its wars and its heroes. Most of this record has never been studied as a whole; comics scholarship proceeds one book at a time. We argue that artificial intelligence, including generative models, can change this to the benefit of the medium itself. We propose PAGE, a framework that makes artificial intelligence an instrument for comics research. It parses every scan into panels, text and a bibliographic r

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