In der Online Zeitschrift ImageTexT – Interdisciplinary Comics Studies ist kürzlich eine Sonderausgabe zum Thema „Graphic Realities: Comics as Documentary, History, and Journalism“ erschienen. Herausgegeben wurde diese von Laura Schlichting und
Aus der Einleitung der Herausgeber_innen:
„While comics have traditionally been associated with fictional, especially funny and/or fantastic stories, they have in recent decades become a major vehicle for non-fiction, as well. In particular, graphic memoir or autobiography constitutes a popular genre and has received widespread scholarly attention. As an especially personal and subjective form, drawing comics appears particularly suited to represent one’s own life and experiences. However, with the pioneering work of Joe Sacco, comics has also been fruitfully employed to materialize the experiences of others, often from marginalized groups. Yet, as this special issue shows, graphic narrative forms a long-standing tradition of addressing ‘realities’ that precedes the current format of the graphic reportage. Comics have been analyzed and theorized as works of documentary, history, and journalism. These forms of graphic non-fiction have been discussed especially with regard to the graphic narrative book, but also as contributions to serial news publications, and as webcomics. […] The articles collected here address a variety of issues concerning both theories and practices of graphic non-fiction, discussing the history of the form, as well as particular examples of its culturally-situated employment. What all articles have in common is their interest in the capacity of graphic narrative to represent realities as well as the possibilities and limitations that this endeavor entails.“
Zur Sonderausgabe (open access): Imagetext 11.1 (2019)
Inhalt:
- Laura Schlichting, Johannes C. P. Schmid: Introduction to “Graphic Realities: Comics as Documentary, History, and Journalism”
- Dirk Vanderbeke: Graphic Narratives as Non-Fiction in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era
- Nina Mickwitz: “True Story”: The Aesthetic Balancing Acts of Documentary Comics
- Dieter Declercq: Drawing Truth Differently. Matt Bors’ Fictional Satire and Non-Fictional Journalism
- Lukas R.A. Wilde: 9/11, Comics, and the Threatened Orders of Pictorial Media: Non-Fictional Comics as Historical Re-Enactment
- Wibke Weber, Hans-Martin Rall: Comics Journalism and Animated Documentary: Understanding the Balance Between Fact and Fiction
- Chiao-I Tseng, Tilmann Altenberg: Blending Fact and Fiction in Graphic War Narratives: A Diachronic Analysis of Argentine Falklands War Comics
- Ofer Ashkenazi, Jakob Dittmar: Comics as Historiography
- Jörn Ahrens: Joe Sacco and the Quest for Documentation in Comics