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This article introduces the ‘History & Comics’ forum by providing a brief overview of both the history of comics in the Low Countries and the representation of history in comics.
Yasco Horsman, Kees Ribbens
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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.
Forceville, Charles +2 more
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Chulos y novios en viñetas. Cómo dedicarse al cómic (gay) y no morir en el intento
Vivir del cómic es, de por sí, un imposible, pero las dificultades se acrecientan si el objetivo de un autor es dedicarse al cómic gay. En este artículo de cariz autobiográfico, se relatan los obstáculos y los éxitos que han marcado la trayectoria ...
Sebas Martín (autor de cómics)
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‘Graphic Medicine’ as a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from Comics Producers
Recent literature suggests that a growing number of comics are being published on health-related topics, including aspects of mental health and social care (Williams 2012; Czerwiec et al 2015) and that comics are increasingly being used in higher ...
Anthony Farthing, Ernesto Priego
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Teaching comics in class : between mainstream and the alternative [PDF]
Since the turn of the millennium Swedish mainstream comics have moved from traditional towards the alternative, with best-selling artists working with autobiographical, political and feminist comics.
Krantz, Gunnar, +2 more
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Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis
Introduction: Comics as children's literature -- The use of childhood in war -- Youthful experiences of immigration, migration, and diaspora -- Indigeneity and resurgence in Canadian comics -- Space and orientation in LGBTQ+ graphic narratives -- Young ...
Halsall, Alison
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"I'm Not a Loser, I'm Just Drawn That Way:" Comix, Graphic Novels, and the Ethos of the Anti-Hero
American comics are, still today, often regarded as undemanding books starring a few well-known superheroes wearing masks and costumes. This is only partially true: comics are not necessarily about superheroes, the latter being starred, in fact, only in ...
Fiorenzo Iuliano
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Narrative Structure in Comics builds on Postema’s PhD thesis to present for a more general audience her focus on the ‘gap’ in comics and its place in the process of reading graphic narrative, from the detailed textual ...
Paul Fisher Davies
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Comics in education. The link between visual and verbal literacy: how readers read comics
This case study investigates how readers read comics. The work, based upon Roland Barthes' concept of relay discussed in Image, Music, Text (1977), considers that a reader understands the comic at the higher level of the diegesis by switching between ...
Helsby, Wendy Frances, Helsby, W.F.
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Experiments in digital comics : somewhere between comics and multimedia storytelling
This paper looks at a few experiments on comics-storytelling in digital comics. The paper starts with introducing aspects from media psychology and research on technical documentation to look into the narrative and graphic structure of comics and touches
Dittmar, Jakob
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