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Openness of comics : Generating meaning within flexible structures
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ISBN: 9781496805935 1496805933 Year: 2016 Publisher: Jackson University Press of Mississippi


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Strong bonds : child-animal relationships in comics
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ISBN: 9782875622594 2875622595 Year: 2020 Publisher: Liège : Presses Universitaires de Liège,

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Snoopy and Charlie Brown, Calvin and Hobbes, Tintin and Snowy... comics are home to many memorable child and animal figures. Many cultural productions, especially children's literature and cartoons, stress the similarities between children and animals, similarities that have their limits and often place the child, as human, above the animal. Still, these fictional situations offer opportunities for thinking of child-animal relationships in diverse ways through, for instance, considering the possibilities of privileged contact between children and animals or of animals that are more knowledgeable and powerful than children and even adults.Despite the prevalence and success of child-animal tandems in comics and culture, we know very little about these relationships. What makes them so popular? How do they work? How much do they vary across time and cultures? What do they tell us about the place of animals and children in comics and in the real world?Strong Bonds: Child-animal Relationships in Comics takes a first, important step in this direction. Bringing together scholars with a diverse range of comics expertise, the volume's chapters combine contextualized readings of comics with relevant theories for interrogating childhood and animalhood, their overlaps and divergences. The strong bonds between children and animals mapped out here point towards alternative modes of conceptualizing family and identity and, ultimately, alternative means of reading, interpreting and imagining.With chapters on early comics (the Italian children's magazine Corriere dei Piccoli during WWI, Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie) international and regional classics (Tintin, the Flemish Jommeke) and contemporary graphic novels (Bryan Talbot's A Tale of One Bad Rat, Brecht Even's Panther), this critical anthology sheds light on a vast array of child-animal relationships in comics from Europe and North America.


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Monstrous imaginaries : the legacy of romanticism in comics
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ISBN: 9781496825278 9781496825261 Year: 2020 Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,

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"Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today's popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations. Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels. She highlights the persistence of recurrent Romantic features through monstrous protagonists in English- and French-language comics and draws out their implications. Aspects covered include the dark Romantic predilection for ruins and the sordid, the solitary protagonist, his quest, nostalgia, the prominence of the spectacle as well as excessive emotions, and above all, the monster's ambiguity and rebelliousness. Ahmed highlights each Romantic theme through close readings of well-known but often overlooked comics, including Enki Bilal's Monstre tetralogy, Jim O'Barr's The Crow, and Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, as well as the iconic comics series Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Mike Mignola's Hellboy. In blurring the otherness of the monster, these protagonists retain the exaggeration and uncontrollability of all monsters while incorporating Romantic characteristics"-- "The first book to explore the lasting influence of Romanticism on contemporary comics monsters"--


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The Cambridge companion to comics
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ISBN: 1009255703 1009255665 1009255657 1009255681 9781009255684 9781009255691 100925569X Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This volume provides readers with the histories and theories necessary for studying comics. Individual chapters explore comics through several key aspects, including drawing, serialities, adaptations, and transmedia storytelling. It offers close, interdisciplinary readings of vital works, covering more than a century of comics production.


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Comics Memory : Archives and Styles
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ISBN: 3319917455 3319917463 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact—especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives—in their physical and metaphorical manifestations—this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics.


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Comics Memory : Archives and Styles
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ISBN: 9783319917467 3319917463 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham: Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact-especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives-in their physical and metaphorical manifestations-this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics


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Comics memory : archives and styles
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ISBN: 9783319917450 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,

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Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact, especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives in their physical and metaphorical manifestations, this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics.


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Comics and graphic novels
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ISBN: 1350336084 9781350336087 9781350336094 9781350336100 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades. Interdisciplinary and international in its scope, the critical approaches on offer spread across a wide range of strands, from the formal and the ideological to the historical, literary and cultural. Its concise chapters provide accessible introductions to comics methodologies, comics histories and cultures across the world, high-profile creators and titles, insights from audience and fan studies, and important themes and genres, such as autobiography and superheroes. It also surveys the alternative and small press alongside general reference works and textbooks on comics. Each chapter is complemented by list of key reference works.


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Le statut culturel de la bande dessinée : ambiguïtés et évolutions = The cultural standing of comics : ambiguities and changes
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ISBN: 9782806103208 2806103207 Year: 2016 Volume: 8 Publisher: louvain-la-Neuve : Academia - L'Harmattan,

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Une étude de la question de la légitimité culturelle de la bande dessinée. Les auteurs l'abordent à travers l'oeuvre, l'auteur, le public, l'école, l'histoire et l'art, dans un cadre à la fois francophone et anglophone. ©Electre 2017


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"Frozen moments" : archival materialities and database-narratives in Chris Ware's Building stories

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Building stories (2012), le dernier "roman graphique" de l'auteur nord-américain Chris Ware se compose non pas d'un livre, mais d'une multitude d'objets imprimés sous divers formats et réunis au sein d'une boîte en carton surdimensionnée. Le lecteur est invité à trouver son propre parcours à travers ces différents formats de bande dessinée. Bien que chaque pièce est reliée aux autres par un univers diégétique partagé et une multitude de détails, assembler les pièces du puzzle se révèle être une tentative perpétuellement frustrée. L'expérimentation de la matérialité du format à laquelle Chris Ware se prête dans Building stories est intimement lié à plusieurs développements dans le champ nord-américain de la bande dessinée, et dans le secteur culturel plus large. Alors que la publication en série est en train de disparaître, le roman graphique s'est imposé comme un nouveau format dominant et culturellement légitime. En réunissant dans une boîte des fragments prépubliés qui sont maintenus dans leurs formats d'origine, ainsi qu'en multipliant les allusions à l'histoire matérielle de la bande dessinée américaine par les types de format qu'il intègre, Ware récupère le potentiel de la sérialisation comme un mode discontinu de publication radical pour le temps présent. A l'ère du numérique, Building stories est à la fois un hommage à l'industrie de l'imprimé, ainsi qu'une bande dessinée qui se prête à un format empruntant aux pratiques de lecture typiquement associées aux nouveaux médias. En effet, Ware explore la database comme un mode d'organisation narratif qui permet aux lecteurs de générer perpétuellement de nouveaux récits.

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