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For a Few Comic Strips More: Reinterpreting the Spaghetti Western through the Comic Book

open access: yes, 2016
In Christopher Frayling's book Spaghetti Westerns (1981), he highlights how the character of the Spaghetti Western has since become subsumed into later Western comic books, evidenced through the Lee Van Cleef-like bounty hunter featured in Morris and ...
William Grady
core   +1 more source

When Social Media Influencers Work: A Meta‐Analysis of Brand Engagement, Behavioral Intention, and Boundary Conditions

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how social media influencers (SMIs) shape brand engagement and behavioral intention and when these effects vary across contexts. Drawing on 97 studies with a sample of 40,330 participants, we employ one‐stage meta‐analytic structural equation modeling (OSMASEM) to estimate the effects of SMI credibility (attractiveness ...
Tareq Rasul   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development. [PDF]

open access: yesNew Dir Stud Leadersh
ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Connable S.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Environmental Management Control Systems and Environmental and Economic Performance: Do Country Characteristics Matter?

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an integrated framework that combines the natural resource‐based view with contingency theory, this study examines how environmental management control systems (EMCS) build multinational firms' environmental capabilities and balance their environmental and economic performance while accounting for cross‐country contextual conditions.
Kimitaka Nishitani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring comics fandom and the book arts through the practice of comic book binding

open access: yes
In this poster, we explore the niche but growing practice of comic book binding, wherein fans consolidate multiple “floppy” comic books into a single bound volume, transforming both the physical artifact and the reading experience.
Walsh, John A., Jensen, A.
core   +1 more source

Patents Comic Book. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This comic book narrates the adventures of four teenagers who learn what patents are and how they and society at large can benefit from them. While the WIPO comic books are primarily geared towards students from 8 to 12 years' old, higher-level students ...
Llahuala, Jorge., Luna, German.
core   +1 more source

“You just want to re‐open our biggest wounds, don't you?”: Homeplace ethnography as (polluted) environmental method

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract When I was 12, my family told me a story about their community falling apart and coming together, a time when someone tried putting a nuclear facility in their (our?) hometown. Since we moved when I was too young to remember, the story had little significance until I embarked on a “hometown” ethnographic journey for my dissertation.
Chandler L. Classen
wiley   +1 more source

I’m Not a Hero, I’m Just Drawn That Way: A Review of Super Bodies: Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact

open access: yesThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
This article discusses Super Bodies: Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact by Jeffrey A.Brown (University of Texas Press, 2023).  The book covers six modern artistic styles prevalent in American superhero comics, as well as ...
Ryan L Johnson
doaj   +2 more sources

Industry Signals and the Dynamics of Stock Market Predictability

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate whether industry portfolios contain information that forecasts aggregate stock market returns. Earlier research reports evidence of their usefulness as predictors, yet later studies find weaker and unstable effects. Using updated U.S.
Michael Ellington   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Contemporary Comic book superhero

open access: yes, 2009
In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television ...
Ndalianis, A
core   +1 more source

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