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Zoroastriannism in Comics [PDF]
Kultura Popularna, 2020 The article focuses on the representations of Zoroastrianism––an ancient religion originating from Iran that has survived until the present day—in comics. The religion is rarely represented in popular culture, including comics, and the article will reflect on two of the most important examples: Zarathushtra (1974) and Silent Was Zarathustra (2014). The
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, 2020 The concept of hybrids is widely used in cultural studies and media theory. Cultural products at the intersection of digital games and comic books sometimes show distinct traits of both “conventionally considered distinct” media (Rajewsky 2005) and have consequentially been conceptualized in the definitive work on the subject (Goodbrey 2017) as a ...
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, 2015 Comics is rapidly developing into a scholarly discipline in its own right, with a growing output of books, journals, and conferences. Two practitioners have been crucial influences. Eisner (1985) and McCloud (1993, 2000, 2006) have done much to aid the understanding of how comics create meaning.
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Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2015 Materiality Comics is a digital comic produced with a combination of Bitstrips and Comic Life. It argues and visually demonstrates that materiality is an important topic for comics scholars to consider, and that through creating essays in comics form, comics scholars can develop insights about materiality that are unavailable when analyzing comics by ...
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Hessische Blätter für Volksbildung, 2018 Der unvoreingenommene Blick auf Comics - auf die Bildgeschichte in all ihren Erscheinungsformen - bietet die Chance, die Qualitäten dieser Kunstform zu erfahren. Man muss freilich - wie bei jeder anderen Darstellungsweise auch - das angemessene 'Lesen' lernen; freilich lernt es sich genussvoll durch wiederholende Übung und die Bereitschaft, sich offen ...
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Loving Comics in Neil the Horse Comics and Stories
Comicalités, 2022 This article examines the love of comics or bedephilia discernible in Katherine Collins’s Neil the Horse Comics and Stories, a short-lived comic from the 1980s. It interrogates and contextualizes the “childish” elements of the comic, its bridging of children’s culture and adult culture through focusing girls’ comics and funny animal comics.
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The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2020 ABSTRACTMagic and stand-up comedy have a lot in common. For example, when successful, both tend to elicit laughter, and many magicians regularly perform in comedy clubs. Nevertheless, the close relationship between magic and comedy is poorly understood.
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Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951), 1949 The author has been engaged in medical education and practice since 1930. He has been Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine in Georgetown University since 1935. In August, 1941, he became Lt. Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve (MC) and Commander in July, 1945. He is now Senior Medical Officer and Psychiatrist in the U.S. Naval Disciplinary Barracks,
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Comic in Swahili or Swahili comic?
, 2012 As a subject of scientific interest `Western` comics (i.e. the European, American, Japanese comics) have after all achieved some recognition. From its beginnings in the 1890s the comic has been an economic success, and gradually gained importance in the contemporary cultural production of `Western´ societies.
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