pbHistorical and theoretical analysis of the clear line style in comics and cinemabppThe clear line, a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field of comics studies for the style originally developed by Herg and the cole de Bruxelles. It refers to certain storytelling strategies that generate a deceptively simple, lucid, and hygienic narration in Philippe Marion's words, it is a style made out of light, fluidity and limpid clarity.ppBy cataloguing and critically analysing clear line comics from historical and theoretical perspectives, this book offers a new outlook on the development of the style in the 20th and 21st centuries, especially focused on the context of the European bande dessine. In addition, it pioneeringly expands the concept of clear line to other artistic domains by introducing and defending its transmedial use, which is particularly relevant for the understanding of the oeuvres of certain filmmakers of the 20th centu