perigraphic
adjEtymology From peri- + graphic.
1
Surrounding the graphics; sometimes applied to the material (preface, etc.) between the covers and the main content of a comic.
- What is attested by the perigraphic areas is not plot detail, but a particular visual tone. This results in a serious danger of redundancy: the front cover displays a synthetic image of the volume that is repeated, with a few variations, by the other available spaces. Instead of being put together in imaginative ways, the perigraphic areas are mostly used merely to illustrate the book […]2014, Ann Miller, Bart Beaty, The French Comics Theory Reader, page 195:
- But from one century to the next, the status of illustrative images has changed. That they were placed in such nineteenth-century collections as the ones analysed here was not merely for peritextual, or perigraphic in the iconotext sense of the word, purposes.2015, Christina Ionescu, Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century:
- Coordinate terms
- peritextual