In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Françoise Mouly's avant-garde anthologyRawand the launch of theLove & Rocketsseries by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario ...Hernandez, the decade saw a deluge of comics that were more autobiographical, emotionally realistic, and experimental than anything seen before. These alternative comics were not the scatological satires of the 1960s underground, nor were they brightly colored newspaper strips or superhero comic books.
InAlternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, Charles Hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long-form comics, in particular the graphic novel. He argues that these are fundamentally a literary form and offers an extensive critical study of them both as a literary genre and as a cultural phenomenon. Combining sharp-eyed readings and illustrations from particular texts with a larger understanding of the comics as an art form, this book discusses the development of specific genres, such as autobiography and history.
Alternative Comicsanalyzes such seminal works as Spiegelman'sMaus, Gilbert Hernandez'sPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, and Justin Green'sBinky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary. Hatfield explores how issues outside of cartooning-the marketplace, production demands, work schedules-can affect the final work. Using Hernandez's Palomar as an example, he shows how serialization may determine the way a cartoonist structures a narrative. In a close look atMaus, Binky Brown, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, Hatfield teases out the complications of creating biography and autobiography in a substantially visual medium, and shows how creators approach these issues in radically different ways.
Charles Hatfield, Canyon Country, California, is an assistant professor of English at California State University, Northridge. His work has been published inImageTexT,Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies,Children's Literature Association Quarterly, theComics Journal, and other periodicals.
See the author's Web site atwww.csun.edu/~ch76854/.
This unique comic anthology takes its readers on a journey through different art styles and queer perspectives, from first Prides to multi-generational friendships to finding community among chosen ...families. The comics in Queer Compassion offer kaleidoscopic insight into the colorful, heartbreaking, empowering, funny, and diverse lives of queer people around the world by centering compassion as a way to inhabit and build community. These comics are created by queer artists for queer audiences and with the intent for queer self-expression and representation. Social science researchers spoke to diverse members of LGBTQ+ communities to explore their beliefs about and experiences of compassion. Fifteen queer comics were commissioned to illustrate those stories, making the process of creating each comic a unique collaboration between researchers and artists, blending data exploring the meanings of compassion for queer folks with the creativity, passion, and understanding of a queer comic artist. These stories reflect not only the harsh realities that many queer people face but they also uplift queer voices, illustrate strength, and capture queer resolve to make life more compassionate. Queer people, living in a cis-heteronormative world, often face experiences of marginalization, discrimination, stigma, trauma, and invisibility in everyday life. Queer Compassion shows that its titular emotion can be the bridge that brings understanding and creates community connections — a bridge that is particularly needed at this time.
It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster success of recent superhero movies. Yet transmedial ...adaptations are part of an evolution that can be traced to the turn of the last century, when comic strips such as “Little Nemo in Slumberland" and “Felix the Cat" were animated for the silver screen. Representing diverse academic fields, including technoculture, film studies, theater, feminist studies, popular culture, and queer studies, Comics and Pop Culture presents more than a dozen perspectives on this rich history and the effects of such adaptations. Examining current debates and the questions raised by comics adaptations, including those around authorship, style, and textual fidelity, the contributors consider the topic from an array of approaches that take into account representations of sexuality, gender, and race as well as concepts of world-building and cultural appropriation in comics from Modesty Blaise to Black Panther. The result is a fascinating re-imagination of the texts that continue to push the boundaries of panel, frame, and popular culture.
Comic Book Women Brunet, Peyton; Davis, Blair; Robbins, Trina
01/2022
eBook
The history of comics has centered almost exclusively on men.
Comics historians largely describe the medium as one built by men
telling tales about male protagonists, neglecting the many ways in
...which women fought for legitimacy on the page and in publishers'
studios. Despite this male-dominated focus, women played vital
roles in the early history of comics. The story of how comic books
were born and how they evolved changes dramatically when women like
June Tarpé Mills and Lily Renée are placed at the center rather
than at the margins of this history, and when characters such as
the Black Cat, Patsy Walker, and Señorita Rio are analyzed.
Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the
golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous
genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built
their careers. Considering issues of race, gender, and sexuality,
the authors examine crime, horror, jungle, romance, science
fiction, superhero, and Western comics to unpack the cultural and
industrial consequences of how women were represented across a wide
range of titles by publishers like DC, Timely, Fiction House, and
others. This revisionist history reclaims the forgotten work done
by women in the comics industry and reinserts female creators and
characters into the canon of comics history.
Ce livre fait le pari de l’intelligence de la bande dessinée. Une intelligence profondément subversive. Intelligence cognitive, puisqu’elle sait fort bien se théoriser elle-même. L’analyste n’ayant ...plus, alors, qu’à se mettre modestement à son écoute. Première subversion. Intelligence sémiotique, ensuite, puisque tout est donné à voir à travers le dessin en bande dessinée (y compris son dispositif et même l’invisible) et que le décor et les corps jouent un rôle considérable dans la construction du récit. Deuxième subversion. Intelligence médiatique, enfin, puisque la bande dessinée transforme son lecteur en témoin et que ses formes sémiotiques s’inventent à travers différents supports qu’elle sait tout aussi bien mettre à son service, nouant alors histoire et théorie. Troisième subversion. La bande dessinée constitue ainsi une forme singulière d’intelligence narrative graphique et un appareil – notion proposée par Jean-Louis Déotte – profondément subversif. Pascal Robert est professeur des universités à l’Enssib où il anime le séminaire « La bande dessinée en questions ». Il a dirigé « Bande dessinée et numérique » (CNRS Éditions, 2016) et publié « De l’incommunication au miroir de la bande dessinée » (Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2017).
On a longtemps cherché à savoir si la bande dessinée était un art. Mais le développement des études de bande dessinée au cours des dernières décennies a largement contribué à transformer le ...questionnement lui-même : il s’agit aujourd’hui de comprendre la place qu’elle occupe dans le système médiatique. Quelles sont les circulations médiatiques qui structurent la bande dessinée ? Quels phénomènes d’hybridation se jouent entre la bande dessinée et les médias qu’elle rencontre (photographie, peinture, littérature, arts vidéoludiques, etc.) ? Quelles formes de mémoire, quels usages de la citation, quels mécanismes d’appropriation sont à l’œuvre dans les bandes dessinées ? Comment ces phénomènes transforment-ils le rôle de l’auteur, ou la fonction de l’éditeur, ou encore la pratique de l’exposition de bande dessinée ? Du Japon aux États-Unis en passant par la France, l’Allemagne ou le Canada, ce livre met en évidence la fécondité du croisement entre études intermédiales et études de bande dessinée.
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that dominated headlines around the world. Millions of Ukrainians would flee the country, and a third of the population would be ...displaced. In the days following the invasion, Swedish migration expert Gregg Bucken-Knapp sent text messages to his Ukrainian colleagues, offering support and assistance. These were their responses. In a series of graphic vignettes, Messages from Ukraine takes the words of Ukrainian migration professionals and transforms them into snapshots of how war affects the lives of everyday people: those who are forced to flee home and seek safety elsewhere, those who choose to stay and volunteer or fight, those who witness events unfolding from afar, and those who find themselves trapped in cities under siege. Messages from Ukraine captures a moment in time to tell a timeless story about war, displacement, determination, and resilience. Proceeds from the sale of Messages from Ukraine will go to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation, a national charitable foundation that provides humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine.
Printing terror Goodrum, Michael
2021, 20210112, 2021-01-12
eBook
Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in
dialogue with the anxieties of their age. It rejects the narrative
of horror comics as inherently, and necessarily, subversive and
explores, ...instead, the ways in which these texts manifest white
male fears over America's changing sociological landscape. It
examines two eras: the pre-CCA period of the 1940s up to 1954, and
the post-CCA era to 1975. The book examines each of these periods
through the lenses of war, gender, and race, demonstrating that
horror comics at this time were centered on white male victimhood
and the monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other. It is
of interest to scholars of horror, comics studies, and American
history.
