Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2241530
Olga Michael
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Pub Date : 2023-07-23DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2238819
Amritha R. Krishnan, Smita Jha
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Pub Date : 2023-07-23DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2238806
R. Twomey
{"title":"Graphic sound and silence: Chris Ware’s aural depiction of alienation and isolation","authors":"R. Twomey","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2238806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2238806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46727458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-16DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2235406
Joshua Rene Cavazos
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Pub Date : 2023-07-09DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2233582
Chinmay Murali, Parvathy Ms
{"title":"“I set out to make a comic that I would want to read”: a conversation on queer motherhood and LGBTQ+ comics with A.K. Summers","authors":"Chinmay Murali, Parvathy Ms","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2233582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2233582","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45741576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2221325
Barbara Spadaro, Elettra Stamboulis
ABSTRACT This conversation with Elettra Stamboulis retraces the transnational context of the rise and development of comics journalism in Italy, illuminating its distinctive political and intellectual background. Stamboulis speaks about the concept of Reality based comics from its impact on the thriving Italian underground cultures of the 1980s and 1990s to the development into the Italian Fumetto di realtà at the turn of the 21st century. From her unique perspective as a comics author, curator, translator and activist, Stamboulis speaks about the encounter with Joe Sacco, which had a profound impact on a generation of Italian authors, and the curatorial and creative practices developed with Gianluca Costantini for the Komikazen International Festival of Reality Comics (2005–2015). Komikazen activated a vibrant and diverse scene of authors, activists and independent publishers from the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and its political and translational ethos would further expand into the magazines Inguine(Mah!)Gazine and G.I.U.D.A. Stamboulis’ intellectual and creative trajectory testifies to a collective research process that has been pushing the boundaries of the comics medium and exploring the intersection of reality, subjectivity and memory while tracing new transnational geographies. In this interview she reflects on the ambitions, practices, and continuing developments of these experiences.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2239334
Daniele Comberiati, Barbara Spadaro
This special issue introduces for the first time to the predominantly Anglophone arena of Comics Studies a strand of the globalising comics culture of the 21 century, namely the transnational Italian comics scene. Our aim has been to highlight the mobility and the multilingualism of Italian comics culture as well as the avenues of research evident in this emerging field. Two elements have been key in such an endeavour: a transnational perspective that embraces the mobility of Italian (comics) culture across geographical and linguistic borders (Burdett, Havely and Polezzi 2020; Spadaro 2022) and the engagement of contributors from different academic backgrounds related to Comics and Italian Studies. In this framework, memory and migration have emerged as powerful narrative themes in comics production and simultaneously as avenues of research in Comics Studies. This introduction outlines the rationale of the project and points towards further directions within the emerging field of Transnational Italian Comics Studies. Our starting point is that the phenomenology of the Italian fumetto cannot be contained within Italy and Italian language because it is intertwined with the long and ongoing history of mobility of Italian authors and readers and also because it springs from acts of translation – whether between languages, creative and industrial practices, or media. Comics and graphic novels help us think differently about the definition, the canons and the production of Italian culture, and this special issue calls for more robust theoretical investment from scholars in the field. Such expert engagement with the specificity of Italian transnational mobility – in terms of trajectories, practices, languages – highlights tensions within the globalising development of both comics culture and Comics Studies. This special issue aims to intensify the scholarly engagement with Italian comics and with the rapidly establishing canons, categories, and research questions of the broadly defined field of Transnational Comics Studies. The latter has burgeoned across various journals and book series, questioning definitions of French or Francophone (Forsdick et al. 2005), US (Denson, Meyer, and Stein 2013), European (Grove, Miller, and Magnussen 2019), Asian (Brienza 2016; Ogi et al. 2019Spanish (Magnussen 2018), German (Kraenzle and Ludewig 2020), and postcolonial (Mickwitz 2015) comics and canons, focusing on comics genres, authors and productions exemplary of transnational and transcultural exchange. In this spirit, our project engages ‘with narratives, histories and imaginaries that transcend national boundaries as well as with practices of comics production indebted to multiple comics traditions” (Kraenzle and Ludewig 2020, 2), advancing current debates that seek to globalise Comics Studies. Over the last twenty years, this JOURNAL OF GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS 2023, VOL. 14, NO. 4, 489–501 https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2239334
本期特刊首次向以英语为母语的漫画研究领域介绍了21世纪全球化漫画文化的一部分,即跨国意大利漫画场景。我们的目标是强调意大利漫画文化的流动性和多语言性,以及在这个新兴领域中显而易见的研究途径。在这一努力中,有两个关键因素:一是跨国视角,拥抱意大利(漫画)文化跨越地理和语言边界的流动性(Burdett, Havely和Polezzi 2020;Spadaro 2022)以及来自漫画和意大利研究相关的不同学术背景的贡献者的参与。在这个框架下,记忆和迁移成为漫画创作中强有力的叙事主题,同时也是漫画研究的研究途径。本介绍概述了该项目的基本原理,并指出了跨国意大利漫画研究新兴领域的进一步方向。我们的出发点是,意大利语的现象学不能被包含在意大利和意大利语中,因为它与意大利作家和读者的长期流动历史交织在一起,也因为它源于翻译行为——无论是在语言之间,创造性和工业实践之间,还是在媒体之间。漫画和图画小说帮助我们以不同的方式思考意大利文化的定义、经典和生产,这一期特刊呼吁该领域的学者进行更有力的理论投资。这种专家参与意大利跨国流动的特殊性-在轨迹,实践,语言方面-突出了漫画文化和漫画研究全球化发展中的紧张关系。本期特刊旨在加强与意大利漫画的学术接触,并迅速建立规范,类别,以及跨国漫画研究的广泛定义领域的研究问题。后者在各种期刊和丛书中迅速发展,质疑法语或法语国家的定义(Forsdick et al. 2005),美国(Denson, Meyer, and Stein 2013),欧洲(Grove, Miller, and Magnussen 2019),亚洲(Brienza 2016;Ogi等人。2019西班牙语(Magnussen 2018),德语(Kraenzle和Ludewig 2020)和后殖民时期(Mickwitz 2015)漫画和经典,重点关注漫画类型,作者和跨国和跨文化交流的典范作品。本着这种精神,我们的项目“涉及超越国界的叙事、历史和想象,以及得益于多种漫画传统的漫画制作实践”(Kraenzle和Ludewig 2020, 2),推动了当前寻求使漫画研究全球化的辩论。在过去的二十年里,《图画小说和漫画杂志》2023年第14卷第14期。4, 489-501 https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2239334
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Pub Date : 2023-06-25DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2225593
Darnel Degand
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Pub Date : 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2223662
Hans-Georg Erney
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