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Publikationshinweis: „Transmedia Character Studies“

Seit März ist die Monografie Transmedia Character Studies, gemeinsam verfasst von Tobias Kunz und ComFor-Vorstandsmitglied Lukas R.A. Wilde, bei Routledge erhältlich. Neben einer ausdifferenzierten methodologischen Betrachtung des Themas enthält der Band auch zahlreiche konkrete Beispiele, unter Anderem zu Comics, Manga und Animation:

Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media. This highly innovative work offers new perspectives on how to interrelate production discourses, media texts, and reception discourses, and how to select a suitable research corpus for the discussion of characters whose serial appearances stretch across years, decades, or even centuries. Each chapter starts from a different notion of how fictional characters can be considered, tracing character theories and models to approach character representations from perspectives developed in various disciplines and fields. This book will enable graduate students and scholars of transmedia studies, film, television, comics studies, video game studies, popular culture studies, fandom studies, narratology, and creative industries to conduct comprehensive, media-conscious analyses of characters across a variety of media.“

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Monitor 71: Neue Publikationen

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The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions

Alison Halsall, Jonathan Warren (Hgs.)
University Press of Mississippi
Oktober 2022
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The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader explores the exemplary trove of LGBTQ+ comics that coalesced in the underground and alternative comix scenes of the mid-1960s and in the decades after. Through insightful essays and interviews with leading comics figures, volume contributors illuminate the critical opportunities, current interactions, and future directions of these comics.
This heavily illustrated volume engages with the work of preeminent artists across the globe, such as Howard Cruse, Edie Fake, Justin Hall, Jennifer Camper, and Alison Bechdel, whose iconic artwork is reproduced within the volume. Further, it addresses and questions the possibilities of LGBTQ+ comics from various scholarly positions and multiple geographical vantages, covering a range of queer lived experience. Along the way, certain LGBTQ+ touchstones emerge organically and inevitably—pride, coming out, chosen families, sexual health, gender, risk, and liberation.
Featuring comics figures across the gamut of the industry, from renowned scholars to emerging creators and webcomics artists, the reader explores a range of approaches to LGBTQ+ comics—queer history, gender and sexuality theory, memory studies, graphic medicine, genre studies, biography, and more—and speaks to the diversity of publishing forms and media that shape queer comics and their reading communities.
Chapters trace the connections of LGBTQ+ comics from the panel, strip, comic book, graphic novel, anthology, and graphic memoir to their queer readership, the LGBTQ+ history they make visible, the often still quite fragile LGBTQ+ distribution networks, the coded queer intelligence they deploy, and the community-sustaining energy and optimism they conjure. Above all, The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader highlights the efficacy of LGBTQ+ comics as a kind of common ground for creators and readers.“

 

Manga: A Critical Guide

Bloomsbury Comics Studies

Shige Suzuki, Ronald Stewart
Bloomsbury
Oktober 2022
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„A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of the 21st century.
In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers:

  • The history of Japanese comics, from influences in early visual culture to the global ‚Manga Boom‘ of the 1990s to the present
  • Case studies of texts reflecting the range of themes, genres, forms and creators, including Osamu Tezuka, Machiko Hasegawa and Katsuhiro Otomo
  • Key themes and contexts – from gender and sexuality, to history and censorship
  • Critical approaches to manga, including definitions, biography and reception and global publishing contexts

The book includes a bibliography of essential critical writing on manga, discussion questions for classroom use and a glossary of key critical terms.“

 

Comics and Archeology

Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

Zena Kamash, Katy Soar, Leen Van Broeck (Hgs.)
Palgrave
Oktober 2022
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„This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions from a specifically archaeological perspective, foregrounding the representation and narrative use of material cultures. It fulfils its objectives through three reception studies in the first part of the volume and three chapters by comic creators in the second part. All six chapters aim to grapple with a set of central questions about the power inherent in drawn images of various kinds.“

 

Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives: Young Lives in Crisis

Routledge Advances in Comics Studies

María Porras Sánchez, Gerardo Vilches (Hgs.)
Routledge
September 2022
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„This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters devote attention to the expression and representation of precarious subjectivities, as well as to the economic and professional precarity that characterizes comics creation and production.
An international team of authors, young and senior systematically examines the representation of precarious youth in graphic fiction and autobiographic comics, superheroes and precarity, market issues and spaces of activism and vulnerability. With this structure, the book offers a global perspective and comprehensive coverage of different aspects of a complex and multifaceted field of knowledge, with a special attention to minorities and liminal subjects. The comics analyzed function as examples of „ethical solicitation“ that bear witness of the precarious existence younger generations endure, while at the same time creating images that voice their outrage and might move readers to act.
This timely and truly interdisciplinary volume will appeal to comics scholars and researchers in the areas of media and cultural studies, modern languages, education, art and design, communication studies, sociology, medical humanities and more.“

 

Art History for Comics: Past, Present and Potential Futures

Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

Ian Horton , Maggie Gray
Palgrave
September 2022
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„This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the present and future. It unearths how early comics scholars deployed art-historical approaches, including stylistic analysis, iconography, Cultural History and the social history of art, and proposes how such methodologies, updated in light of disciplinary developments within Art History, could be usefully adopted in the study of comics today. Through a series of indicative case studies of British and American comics like Eagle, The Mighty Thor, 2000AD, Escape and Heartbreak Hotel, it argues that art-historical methods better address overlooked aspects of visual and material form. Bringing Art History back into the interdisciplinary nexus of comics scholarship raises some fundamental questions about the categories, frameworks and values underlying contemporary Comics Studies.“

 

Reframing the Perpetrator in Contemporary Comics: On the Importance of the Strange

Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

Dragoș Manea
Palgrave
August 2022
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„This book foregrounds the figure of the perpetrator in a selection of British, American, and Canadian comics and explores questions related to remembrance, justice, and historical debt. Its primary focus is on works that deliberately estrange the figure of the perpetrator—through fantasy, absurdism, formal ambiguity, or provocative rewriting—and thus allow readers to engage anew with the history of genocide, mass murder, and sexual violence. This book is particularly interested in the ethical space such an engagement calls into being: in its ability to allow us to ponder the privilege many of us now enjoy, the gross historical injustices that have secured it, and the debt we owe to people long dead.“

Zeitschriftenmonitor 15: Neue Ausgaben

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European Comic Art  15.2

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    • „Introduction:Counter-Narratives, Retellings and Redrawings“
    • Monalesia Earle, Joe Sutliff Sanders: „Misdirection, Displacement and the Nisse in Hilda and the Black Hound
    •  Cara Takakjian: „An Amalgam of Voices: A Prismatic Approach to Memory and History in Gipi’s Graphic Novels“
    • Benjamin Fraser: „The Poetry of Snails: The Shown, the Intervened and the Signified in Duelo de caracoles (2010) by Sonia Pulido and Pere Joan“
    • Robert Aman: „Ridiculous Empire: Satire and European Colonialism in the Comics of Olivier Schrauwen“
    • Armelle Blin-Rolland: „Towards an Ecographics: Ecological Storylines in Bande Dessinée“

 

Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society  6.2

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  • Alexandra Chiasson: „Zooming in on Ben Passmore“
  • Sylvain Lesage, Margaret C. Flinn: „Barbarella: Sexual Revolution or Editorial Revolution?“
  • John A. Walsh: „‚It Was as Much Ours …‘: Reader Contributions to Teen Humor Fashion Comics“
  • Natsume Fusanosuke, Jon Holt, Teppei Fukuda: „From the Field: Why Is Manga So Interesting?“
  • Ritesh Babu: „Civilized Monsters: These Savage Shores and the Colonialist Cage“

 

Journal of Perpetrator Research  4.2

Special Issue: „Perpetrators in Comics“

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  • Laurike in ‚t Veld: „Familial Complicity in Peter Pontiac’s Kraut, Nora Krug’s Belonging, and Serena Katt’s Sunday’s Child“
  • Tatiana Konrad: „The Legacy of American Slavery: Contesting Blackness and Re-envisioning Nationhood in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
  • Olga Michael: „Looking at the Perpetrator in Nina Bunjevac’s Fatherland
  • Johannes Schmid: „Cultural Genocide in Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land
  • Mihaela Precup, Dragoș Manea: „The Perpetrator as Punch-line: Hipster Hitler and the Ambiguity of Controversial Humor“
  • Laurike in ‚t Veld, Christine Gundermann, Kees Ribbens, Ewa Stańczyk: Roundtable on „World War II and Holocaust Comics, Perpetrators, and Education“

 

Imago: Zeitschrift für Kunstpädagogik  14

Special Issue: „Grafisches Erzählen“

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  • Alexander Schneider/Carolin Führer: „Grafisches Erzählen“
  • Dietrich Grünewald: „Von der Kunst des Comics zur Kunst im Comic“
  • Stefanie Granzow: „Über, mit und durch Comics reden: Bild und Narration intersubjektiv aushandeln“
  • Bastian Haase: „Vom Panel zur Seitenarchitektur:Die Sonntagsseite als didaktisch-methodischer Impulsgeber“
  • Anne Krichel: „‚Und wir staunten und wir lachten, wie wir rückwärts Zeit verbrachten‘:Retrogrades Erzählen im Comic Rückwärtsland
  • Nadia Bader: „Charakterdesign in Comics zwischen Einfachheit und Differenziertheit“
  • Jeanette Hoffmann, Caroline R. Wittig: „Zur Zeit- und Raumrezeption in szenischen Lesungen zu grafischen Geschichten“

 

Sane: Sequential Art Narrative in Education  2.7

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  • David Lucas Jr: „The Textual Gutter: How Gene Luen Yang Redefines the Gutter in Boxers & Saints to Tell a Transnational Tale“
  • Maribeth Nottingham, Barbara J. McClanahan, Howard Atkinson: „Evaluating a Suite of Strategies for Reading Graphic Novels: A Confirmatory Case Study“
  • James O. Barbre III, Justin Carroll, Joshua Tolbert: „Comic Literature and Graphic Novel Uses in History, Literature, Math, and Science“

 

Publikationshinweis: „The Social, Political, and Ideological Semiotics of Comics and Cartoons“

„The Social, Political, and Ideological Semiotics of Comics and Cartoons“, eine Spezialausgabe (7:2) von PUNCTUM: International Journal for Semiotics, wurde soeben als Open Access fertiggestellt. Sie enthält acht Beiträge und wurde von den ComFor Mitgliedern Lukas R.A. Wilde und Stephan Packard herausgegeben, von denen auch die Einführung stammt. Folgende spannende Einträge sind in dem Band zu finden:

  • Stephan Packard, Lukas R.A. Wilde: „What More Can Semiotics do for Comics? Looking at Their Social, Political, and Ideological Significations“
  • Chiara Polli: „Isotopy as a Tool for the Analysis of Comics in Translation: The Italian ‘Rip-Off’ of Gilbert Shelton’s Freak Brothers“
  • Nicholas Wirtz: „The Repeatable Hand and the Mediated Self in Mira Jacob’s Good Talk
    Adam Whybray: „Objectifying Visual Language in Autobiographical Comics“
  • Caitlin Casiello: „Drawing Sex: Pages, Bodies, and Sighs in Japanese Eromanga“
  • Martin Foret: „Signs of Disintegration: Subversive Visual Expressions of Processes of Social Transformation and Ideological Clashes in a Czech Graphic Novel Series about Political History“
  • Roula Kitsiou, Maria Papadopoulou: „Mapping Europe’s Attitudes Towards Refugees in Political Cartoons through CMT and CMA“
  • Eirini Papadaki: „The Synergy of Animation and Tourism Industry: Myths and Ideologies in Mickey Mouse’s Traveling Adventure“

ComFor Tagungsband „Comics and Agency“

Der Tagungsband zur 15. ComFor-Jahrestagung (2020) zum Thema „Comics and Agency“ ist nun erschienen. Herausgegeben von Vanessa Ossa, Jan-Noël Thon und Lukas Wilde, versammelt der Band auf 350 Seiten 15 Aufsätze von ComFor-Mitgliedern und international renommierten Autor*innen:

„Comics & Agency:
This volume aims to intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue on comics and related popular multimodal forms (including manga, graphic novels, and cartoons) by focusing on the concept of medial, mediated, and mediating agency. To this end, a theoretically and methodologically diverse set of contributions explores the interrelations between individual, collective, and institutional actors within historical and contemporary comics cultures. Agency is at stake when recipients resist hegemonic readings of multimodal texts. In the same manner, “authorship” can be understood as the attribution of agency of and between various medial instances and roles such as writers, artists, colorists, letterers, or editors, as well as with regard to commercial rights holders such as publishing houses or conglomerates and reviewers or fans. From this perspective, aspects of comics production (authorship and institutionalization) can be related to aspects of comics reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization), including their potential for transmedialization and making contributions to the formation of the public sphere.“

Der Band bildet auch den Auftakt von De Gruyters neuer „Comics Studies: Aesthetics, Histories, Practices“-Reihe, herausgegeben von Jaqueline Berndt, Patrick Noonan, Karin Kukkonen und Stephan Packard.

Den Band finden Sie hier.

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Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry

Jane Tolmie (Hg.)

University Press of Mississippi
Juli 2022
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„Lynda Barry (b. 1956) is best known for her distinctive style and unique voice, first popularized in her underground weekly comic Ernie Pook’s Comeek. Since then, she has published prolifically, including numerous comics, illustrated novels, and nonfiction books exploring the creative process. Barry’s work is genre- and form-bending, often using collage to create what she calls “word with drawing” vignettes. Her art, imaginative and self-reflective, allows her to discuss gender, race, relationships, memory, and her personal, everyday lived experience. It is through this experience that Barry examines the creative process and offers to readers ways to record and examine their own lives.
The essays in Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry, edited by Jane Tolmie, study the pedagogy of Barry’s work and its application academically and practically. Examining Barry’s career and work from the point of view of research-creation, Contagious Imagination applies Barry’s unique mixture of teaching, art, learning, and creativity to the very form of the volume, exploring Barry’s imaginative praxis and offering readers their own.
With a foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama and an afterword by Glenn Willmott, this volume explores the impact of Barry’s work in and out of the classroom. Divided into four sections—Teaching and Learning, which focuses on critical pedagogy; Comics and Autobiography, which targets various practices of rememorying; Cruddy, a self-explanatory category that offers two extraordinary critical interventions into Barry criticism around a challenging text; and Research-Creation, which offers two creative, synthetic artistic pieces that embody and enact Barry’s own mixed academic and creative investments—this book offers numerous inroads into Barry’s idiosyncratic imagination and what it can teach us about ourselves.“

 

Superheld*innen: Gottheiten der Gegenwart?

Nicolaus Wilder

Universiätsverlag Kiel
August 2022
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„Superheld*innen fristen trotz ihrer fast 100 Jahre währenden medialen Präsenz ein Nischendasein im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs. Auch wenn dieses aufzubrechen scheint, ist die Perspektive nach wie vor von einer massenkulturkritischen Haltung dominiert, deren Blick notwendigerweise verschlossen bleibt für das Hoffnungsvolle, Orientierende und Bedeutungsvolle ihrer Narrative. Diese überwiegend im Fandiskurs artikulierte Gegenseite erweist sich jedoch als bestens anschlussfähig an eine pädagogische Betrachtungsweise, die durch das Buch eröffnet wird.“

 

Vertigo Comics: British Creators, US Editors, and the Making of a Transformational Imprint

Isabelle Licari-Guillaume

Routledge
August 2022
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„This book explores the so-called „British Invasion“ of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s.
Focusing on British creators within Vertigo, this study traces the evolution of the line from its creation in 1993 to its demise in 2019. Through an approach grounded in cultural history, the book disentangles the imprint’s complex roots, showing how editors channelled the potential of its British writers at a time of deep-seated economic and cultural change within the comics industry, and promoted a sense of cohesion across titles that defied categories. The author also delves into lesser-known aspects of the Invasion, exploring less-canonical periods and creators that are often eclipsed by Vertigo’s early star writers.
An innovative contribution on a key element of comic book history, this volume will appeal both to researchers of Vertigo scholarship and to fans of the imprint. It will also be an essential read for those interested in transatlantic collaborations and exchanges in the entertainment industry, processes of cultural legitimation and cultural hierarchies, and to anyone working on the representation of national and social identities.“

 

Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books: Red Ink in the Gutter

John Darowski, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Hgs.)

Routledge
August 2022
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„This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.
Paying attention to academic gaps in comics’ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, such as Marxism; posthumanism; and theories of adaptation, sociology, existentialism, and psychology. Without neglecting the classical era, the book presents case studies ranging from the mainstream comics to the independents, simultaneously offering new critical insights on zones of vacancy within the study of horror comic books while examining a global selection of horror comics from countries such as India (City of Sorrows), France (Zombillénium), Spain (Creepy), Italy (Dylan Dog), and Japan (Tanabe Gou’s Manga Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft), as well as the United States.
One of the first books centered exclusively on close readings of an under-studied field, this collection will have an appeal to scholars and students of horror comics studies, visual rhetoric, philosophy, sociology, media studies, pop culture, and film studies. It will also appeal to anyone interested in comic books in general and to those interested in investigating intricacies of the horror genre.“

 

Seeing Comics through Art History: Alternative Approaches to the Form

Maggie Gray, Ian Horton (Hgs.)

Palgrave
Juni 2022
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„This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well as considering what Art History proposes of comic scholarship, including the questioning of some of its deep-rooted categories and procedures, it also appraises what comics and Comics Studies afford and ask of Art History. This book draws together the work of international scholars applying art-historical methodologies to the study of a range of comic strips, books, cartoons, graphic novels and manga, who, as well as being researchers, are also educators, artists, designers, curators, producers, librarians, editors, and writers, with some undertaking practice-based research. Many are trained art historians, but others come from, have migrated into, or straddle other disciplines, such as Comparative Literature, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, and a range of subjects within Art & Design practice.“

 

The DC Comics Universe: Critical Essays

Douglas Brode (Hg.)

McFarland
August 2022
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„As properties of DC comics continue to sprout over the years, narratives that were once kept sacrosanct now spill over into one another, synergizing into one bona fide creative Universe. Intended for both professional pop culture researchers and general interest readers, this collection of essays covers DC Universe multimedia, including graphic novels, video games, movies and TV shows. Each essay is written by a recognized pop culture expert offering a distinct perspective on a wide variety of topics. Even though many of the entries address important social themes like gender and racism, the book is not limited to these topics. Also included are more lighthearted essays for full verisimilitude, including analyses of long forgotten or seemingly marginal aspects of the DC Extended Universe, as well as in-depth and original interpretations of the most beloved characters and their relationships to one another. Highly accessible and approachable, this work provides previously unavailable in-roads that create a richer comprehension of the ever-expanding DC Universe.“

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ImageTexT 13.1 & 13.2

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13.2

  • Michelle Ann Abate: The Yellow Kid and The Yellow Peril – R. F. Outcault’s Comics Series, Asian Caricature, and Chinese Exclusion
  • Matthew Holder: Vigilantism and Violent Forms in Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns
  • Chester Scoville: Place, Knowledge, and Bodies in This One Summer

13.1

  • Benjamin Fraser: “A Sort of Enchanted Place” – Town and Country Mysticism and the Architectural Façade in Seth’s Clyde Fans
  • Kristy Beers Fägersten, Anna Nordenstam, Margareta Wallin Wictorin: Satirizing the nuclear family in the comic art of Liv Strömquist
  • Alexandra Lampp Berglund : Deconstructing Diana – An Examination of Disability and Gender in Wonder Woman
  • José Alaniz – For Angela Likina (1982-2016): ‘We Are Here’: Queer Comics in Russia
  • Bonnie Cross: Restless Figures – Animated Horror Stories as Hypertext

 

European Comic Art  15.1

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  • Mike Classon Frangos, Anna Nordenstam: Feminist Comics in the Nordic Region — Queer, Humour and the Body
  • Leena Romu: Smashing the Ideals of Docile Femininity – Humoristic Strategies of Feminist Resistance in Finnish Women’s Comics Magazines of the 1990s and 2000s
  • Anna Vuorinne, Ralf Kauranen: Visions of Queer Places – Migration and Utopia in Finnish Queer Comics
  • Maria Margareta Österholm: The Pain and the Creeping Feeling – Skewed Girlhood in Two Graphic Novels by Åsa Grennvall
  • Nina Ernst: Bodily Experience and Visual Metaphor in Two Swedish Trans Graphic Narratives
  • Charlotte Johanne Fabricius: Processual Aesthetics and Feminist Trouble – The Comics of Rikke Villadsen
  • Adriana Margareta Dancus: Childbirth during the COVID-19 Pandemic – An Analysis of Fødselen [The birth] by Norwegian Cartoonist, Blogger, and Nurse Hanne Monge Sigbjørnsen

IJOCA: International Journal of Comic Art  23.1

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  • John A. Lent, Xu Ying: In Support of Their Fathers’ and Mother’s Legacies – 13 Offspring of China’s Prominent Cartoonists Explain
  • William Hamilton: Coping with Conflict: Boxing Heroes and German Comics in the Aftermath of the First World War
  • Michele Ann Abate: “Any Children?” – “The Family Circus” and the Problems of Parenthood
  • José Alaniz: “Fragging” The Afghan War – Red Blood
  • Artur Skweres: “All You Need Is Kill, Not Love – Considering the Romantic Relationship in the Manga and Film Adaptations of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s Novel
  • Mike Rhode: Jason Little Discusses The Vagina, His NSFW Webcomic
  • Aaron Humphrey, Simon Walsh: The Border Separating Us – Autobiographical Comics of an Australian World War I Internment Camp
  • Toby Juliff: Tintin and the Jews (of Contemporary Literature)
  • Shivani Sharma: Within and Between the Visual Metaphoricity of Comics – A Semiotic Approach to the Mahābhārata in Amar Chitra Katha
  • Jeff S. Wilson: Dramatizing Ontology in 18 Days: Grant Morrison’s Mahābhārata and the Battle to Save Eternity
  • Ignacio Fernández Sarasola: The Role of Fox Feature Syndicate in the Implementation of the Comics Code Authority
  • Kirsten Møllegaard: Remembrances of Things Past – Childhood in Graphic Memoirs
  • Kinko Ito: The Social Functions and Impacts of Popular Manga in Contemporary Japan – A Case of GOLDEN KAMUY
  • Chadwick L. Roberts, Anita K. McDaniel: Slaying the Monster – Heroic Lesbian Narratives in World’s Finest
  • Angelo Letizia: Poems, Comics and the Spaces Between: An Examination of the Interplay between Poem and Pag
  • Noran Amin: The Oriental Superheroes: Political Questions in G. Willow Wilson’s Cairo: A Graphic Novel and Ms. Marvel
  • Alisia Grace Chase: The Maternal-Feminine and Matrixial Borderspace in Megan Kelso’s “Watergate Sue”
  • Felipe Rodolfo Hendriksen: Morpheus Aeternorum – Dreams, Androgyny, and Their Characteristics in Sandman (Preludes & Nocturnes) by Neil Gaiman

 

Studies in Comics  12.1

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  • Ivan Pintor Iranzo, Eva Van de Wiele: Out of family, into history – A comparative study of the superchild in Corriere dei Piccoli, TBO and The Adventures of Tintin
  • Michel De Dobbeleer: Can stereotypical housewives in Flemish family comics divorce? The cases of Jommeke and De Kiekeboes
  • Danielle Sutton: The problem with empathy – Justification and appeasement in Hey, Kiddo and Real Friends
  • Lan Dong: Drawing childhood in conflict: Malik Sajad’s Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir

 

Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society  6.1

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  • Brannon Costello: Strange Daddy – Uprooting the Environmentalist Family Romance in Nancy A. Collins‘ Swamp Thing
  • Amy Mazowita: Privileged Witnessing and the Graphic Self in Sarah Glidden’s How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
  • Ashley Ecklund: Maus II’s Emphatic Smoke – The Trace as Graphic Affect

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European Comic Art  14.2

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  • Fransiska Louwagie, Simon Lambert: “Introduction: Tradition and Innovation in Franco-Belgian Bande dessinée
  • Annick Pellegrin: “Anchoring Retro Spirou et Fantasio and Spin-off Albums”
  • Cristina Álvares: “Spirou’s Origin Myth and Family Romances: The Domestication of Adventure in the New Adventure Comic”
  • Nicolas Martinez: “Reframing the Western Genre in Bande dessinée, from Hollywood to Ledger Art: An Intermedial Perspective”
  • Ilan Manouach: “Outlining Conceptual Practices in Comics”

Inks  5.3

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  • Jackson Ayres: “Writing for the Trade or Writing for a Trade?”
  • Lan Dong: “Drawing Histories, Documenting Experiences: Clément Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories”
  • Vincent Haddad: “Detroit vs. Everybody (Including Superheroes): Representing Race through Setting in DC Comics”
  • Susan Vanderborg: “’I Tell You I Know Nothing‘: Redefining Accessibility in Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s The Torture Report
  • Dale Jacobs: “The 1976 Project: On Comics and Grief, or How Our Lives Intersect with What We Study”

 

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 11

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  • Anna Marta Marini: “Discursive (Re)Contruction of Mexican American Identity in J. Gonzo’s La Mano del Destino
  • Johanna Commins: “Composing the Handmaid: From Graphic Novel to Protest Icon”
  • Mike Classon Frangos: “Swedish Norm-Critical Comics and the Comics Pedagogy of Lynda Barry”
  • Chris Reyns-Chikuma: “Beyond the Two Solitudes: Differences in Fluidity in Franco-Canadian BD and Anglo-Canadian Comics Through the Influence of Manga”
  • Alessandro Scanu: “How to Tell a Story without Words: Time and Focalization in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (2006)”
  • Niels Høegh Madsen, Mathias Stengaard, Maria Jose Schmidt-Kessen: “The Visualized Employment Contract. An Exploratory Study on Contract Visualization in Danish Employment Contracts”

 

Journal of Comics & Culture  6

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  • Joshua A. Kopin: “’A Big Hit Wit’ Each Oter‘: Techniques of Belonging and Identification on Hogan’s Alley
  • Mark R. Martell: “From Invisible to Invincible: Asian American Superheroes in Comics”
  • Isabelle Martin: “’The Weight of Their Past‘: Reconstructing Memory and History Through Photographs in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do
  • Ioana Atanassova: “Superman: The Kryptonian-American Immigrant”
  • Matt Reingold: “International Migrations in Asaf Hanuka’s Ha Yehuda Ha Aravi
  • Erika Chung: “Somewhere in Between: Asian Diaspora, Superhero Comics and Identity”

 

Sane: Sequential Art Narrative in Education  2.6

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  • Oliver McGarr, Guillermina Gavaldon, Francisco Manuel Sáez de Adana Herrero: “Using comics as a tool to facilitate critical reflective practice in professional education”
  • Angelo Letizia: “Empirical Drawings: Utilizing Comic Essays in the Social Studies Classroom to Teach Citizenship”

 

IJOCA: International Journal of Comic Art 22.2

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  • José Alaniz: “Survilo and Historical Trauma in Contemporary Russian Comics”
  • Marty Branagan: “Tintin: From Violent Communist-Hating Conservative to Radical Peacenik, Part 2”
  • Annabelle Cone: “The Fez, The Harem Pants, and the Embroidered Tie: Fashion and the Politics of Orientalism in Three Francophone Graphic Novels”
  • John A. Lent, Geisa Fernandes: “Far Out of the Box: The Comics of Chile’s Marcela Trujillo (Maliki)”
  • Natsume Fusanosuke: “The Characteristics of Japanese Manga”
  • Stephen Connor: “Ordinary Enemies: Robert Kanigher, Garth Ennis, and the Myth of the Unblemished Wehrmacht”
  • Pritesh Chakraborty: “Re-invention of Indian Myths in the Superhero Comic Books of Nagraj”
  • Christine Atchison: “Watchmen: An Exploration of Transcendence in Comics”
  • Francisco Saez de Adana, Michel Matly: “The 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War and American Comics”
  • John A. Lent: “Trying Times Require Re-inventiveness: Ways of Coping of Taiwan’s Ling Qun”
  • Brian Cremins: “’Reoccurring Dreams‘: Music and the Elegiac Voice in John Porcellino’s Perfect Example
  • Alisia Grace Chase: “The Maternal-Feminine and Matrixial Borderspace in Megan Kelso’s Watergate Sue
  • Kosei Ono: “How Sugiura’s Ninja-Boy Comics Developed after the Asia-Pacific War”
  • Aaron Humphrey: “The Pedagogy and Potential of Educational Comics”
  • Jeffrey O. Segrave: “To Play or Not to Play? That Is the Question: Perspectives on Organized Youth Sports in Comic Strips”
  • Peter Cullen Bryan: “An Expert on Arrow: Critical Fan Activism and Gail Simone’s Twitter”
  • Andrew Edward: “Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? It’s Jack the Ripper!”
  • Safa Al-shammary: “Habibi Worth a Thousand Words, and a Few Words Worth a Thousand Tales”
  • Kyle Eveleth: “Print Is Dead; Long Live Print!: Are Digital Comics Killing the Print Comics Industry?”
  • Angelo J. Letizia: “Comics as a Window into Disposability: Some Thoughts”
  • Mrinal Chatterjee: “Cartoons in the Time of Corona in India”

Publikationshinweis: Studien zur Geschichte des Comic

Studien zur Geschichte
des Comic

Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff, Dietrich Grünewald (Hgs.)

Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag
442 Seiten
zahlreichen, teils farbige Abbildungen
ISBN 978-3-96234-069-8
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Kürzlich ist nun endlich auch der zweite Tagungsband erschienen, der auf die 10. ComFor Jahrestagung 2015 in Frankfurt zurückgeht. Nachdem der erste Tagungsband Beiträge zum Thema Geschichte im Comic: Befunde – Theorien – Erzählweisen (Hg. Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff, Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2017) zusammenbrachte, widmet sich der zweite Band, herausgegeben von ComFor Ehrenmitgliedern Dietrich Grünewald und Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff, den Studien zur Geschichte des Comics.

„Die hier versammelten Studien zur Geschichte des Comic umfassen unterschiedliche Facetten historisch orientierter Comic-Forschung im weitesten Sinn. Neben Überblicksdarstellungen zu Epochen und längeren Zeiträumen finden sich Beiträge zu einzelnen Autorinnen und Autoren, Werken und Serien. Untersuchungen zu Frühformen haben ihren Platz neben Längsschnitten durch Entwicklungen der jüngsten Zeit. Gattungsent­wicklungen, Thematiken, Medien und Märkte sowie Schnittstellen der sequenziellen Bildgeschichte zu anderen Formen des erzählenden Bildes werden ebenso diskutiert wie Vermarktungsweisen und dezidiert antikommerzielle Tendenzen sowie Positionen der historischen Comic-Forschung selbst.
Die Beiträge bieten sowohl Neuentdeckungen von Werken und Details der Geschichte des Comic, wie die Herstellung von historischen Zusammenhängen. Sie geben Einblicke in neuere Comic-Kulturen – auch osteuropäischer und fernöstlicher Länder – und deren Bezüge zu internationalen Entwicklungen. Der Band bietet Ansichten einer zunehmend vielgestaltigen Welt der Grafischen Literatur, innerhalb derer einige der bislang aus der Sicht der westeuropäischen und US-amerikanischen Forschung eher randständigen Gebiete gegenüber den Zentren hervortreten.“

Inhalt:

  • Dietrich GRÜNEWALD: „Zur Frühgeschichte des Comic:
    Von der Illustrationsfolge zur autonomen Bildgeschichte“
  • Bernd DOLLE-WEINKAUFF: „Zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte der sequenziellen Bilderzählung in Deutschland 1835–1860“
  • Christian A. BACHMANN: „Transatlantische Motivwanderungen am Beispiel von Traumdarstellungen:Ein Beitrag zur Thematologie des frühen Comics“
  • Benedikt BREBECK: „Beiträge deutscher Zeichner zur Entwicklung des frühen Comic Strip in den USA“
  • Michael F. SCHOLZ: „‚Comics and Their Creators‘ (1942) -Zu den Anfängen der amerikanischen Comicforschung“
  • Nicolas SCHILLINGER: „Grenzen des Zeichenbaren: Geschichte und Comic in China nach 1949“
  • Jessica BAUWENS-SUGIMOTO: „A Short Overview of the History of Japanese Boys’ Love and Yaoi Manga“
  • Marie SCHRÖER: „Autobiografie im Comic: Geschichte/n, Varianten, Potentiale“
  • Véronique SINA: „‚It Ain’t Me Babe …‘:Zur Geschichte und Entwicklung feministischer Comics“
  • Nina MAHRT: „Mit allen Mitteln: Kriegsreportagen als Comics“
  • Hartmut BECKER: „Werbecomics der 1950er-Jahre: Eine Revue der Konsumwelten der westdeutschen Nachkriegsgesellschaft“
  • Guido WEISSHAHN: „182 Variationen über ein Thema:Die Comicserie Knote und Karli als Beispiel für Zeitungscomics in der DDR“
  • Anna STEMMANN: „‚Der Schrecken, der die Nacht durchflattert‘:Darkwing Duck als Superheldenparodie“
  • Elizabeth ‚Biz‘ NIJDAM: „From Posters to Panels and Panels to Posters: Fluidity of Form in Feuchtenberger’s Comics and Graphic Art“
  • Arno METELING: „Der Vertigo-Effekt: Melancholie, Horror und Britishness in US-amerikanischen Comics um 2000“
  • Kalina KUPCZYNSKA: „Geschichte des autobiografischen Comics in Polen“
  • Brett E. STERLING: „Jenseits des Mainstreams: Zur Entwicklung der deutschsprachigen Comic-Produktion und ihrer avantgardistischen Strömungen seit 1980“
  • Lehel SATA: „Tendenzen im ungarischen Comic nach der Jahrtausendwende: Themen, Gestaltungstechniken, Wirkung“
  • Marco PELLITTERI: „Abriss einer Geschichte der Etablierung des Manga-Markts in ausgewählten europäischen Ländern“

PUBLIKATION ZUR 13. COMFOR-JAHRESTAGUNG: „Zwischenräume: Geschlecht und Diversität in Comics“

Wir freuen uns sehr, nach dem bereits erschienenen Springer-Band Spaces Between: Gender, Diversity, and Identity in Comics (hg. Nina Eckhoff-Heindl and Véronique Sina) nun auch die Publikation des zweiten Tagungsbands zur 13. ComFor Jahrestagung zu verkünden, die im September 2018 in Köln stattfand. Unter Herausgeberschaft des ComFor-Mitglieds Christine Gundermann versammelt der Band unter dem Titel Zwischenräume: Geschlecht und Diversität in Comics einschlägige Beiträge zahlreicher Mitglieder und nicht-Mitglieder.

Zwischenräume: Geschlecht und Diversität in Comics

Christine Gundermann (Hg.)

Zwischenräume: Geschlecht und Diversität in Comics

Christian A. Bachmann Verlag, 2021

978-3-96234-057-5

 

Verlagsbeschreibung:

„Comics sind ein Spiegel der Gesellschaft – sie zeigen auf, wie diese von stereotypen Vorstellungen von Geschlecht und Diversität geprägt ist. Comickünstler:innen gehen aber auch weiter. Sie kritisieren diese Zustände und nutzen die medialen Besonderheiten des Comics, um neue Deutungen vorzustellen und damit letztlich auch einen Beitrag für eine gerechtere und inklusivere Gemeinschaft zu schaffen. Die Hybridität und Uneindeutigkeit des Mediums schafft hier »Zwischenräume«, denen die Auor:innen nachgehen. Die hier versammelten Beiträge zeigen anhand von Einzelanalysen und historischen Gesamtschauen, wie Comickünstler:innen Gender, Diversität und Identität problematisieren und wie dies gesellschaftlich rezipiert wird. Die Arbeitsbedingungen von Comicschaffenden werden dabei ebenso betrachtet wie die politische Dimension der Thematisierung von Geschlecht und Diversität im Comic. So zeigen die Beiträge gemeinsam die Stärke einer interdisziplinären Comicforschung auf.“ → zur Verlagsseite

Inhalt:

    • Christine Gundermann: „Zwischenräume – Geschlecht und Diversität im Comic: Eine Einleitung“
    • Anne Elizabeth Moore und Katharina Brandl: „Normen des Erfolgs: Die Rolle der Identität für Anerkennung in der Comic-Branche“
    • Sylvia Kesper-Biermann: „‚…daß das Fremde nicht fremd zu sein braucht‘: Comics im Sprachunterricht für bundesrepublikanische ‚Gastarbeiter‘ in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren“
    • Kalina Kupczynska: „BLUT oder: Gender und Nation im polnischen Comic“
    • Sophie Bürgi: „Frischluftsprays, philippinische Küche und feine Nasen: Die Macht des Geruchs bei Lynda Barry“
    • Priscilla Layne: „Diasporic Whiteness, Race and Representation in: Birgit Weyhe’s Graphic Novels“
    • Anna Beckmann: „Nicht-binär: Erzählstrategien der Veruneindeutigung in Comics“
    • Markus Pfalzgraf: „Bunte Rahmen, bunte Wände: Comichistorische Aspekte in der Ausstellung SuperQueeroes“

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