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  1. National images in visual narratives : the (re)presentation of national characters in the Flemish comic series "Suske en Wiske"
    Published: 08.04.2024

    In visual narratives such as comics, national images are actually depicted. While Franco-Belgian comics have been the subject of detailed studies regarding the national stereotypes they convey, Flemish comics have been largely ignored. This article... more

     

    In visual narratives such as comics, national images are actually depicted. While Franco-Belgian comics have been the subject of detailed studies regarding the national stereotypes they convey, Flemish comics have been largely ignored. This article focuses on three albums of the Flemish comic series "Suske en Wiske", in which the heroes travel to a fictitious Eastern Bloc country, Japan, and China. It will examine how both heteroimages and auto-image are presented (visually, textually, and as part of the plot), and how comic characters may combine contradictory ethnotypes. As it will turn out, in the early album (1945) ethnotypes are perpetuated, whereas in later ones (1984, 2008) they are rather undermined.

     

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    ISBN: 978-90-04-51315-0; 978-90-04-45012-7
    DDC Categories: 800; 741.5
    Collection: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL)
    Subjects: Comic; Belgien; Flämisch; Stereotyp; Fremdbild; Selbstbild; Ostblock; Chinabild; Japanbild
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  2. On the Nature of the Boundary in Comics Memoir : The Case of 'March'
    Published: 08.06.2018

    This essay on the nature of the boundary of the comics form is an analysis of US Congressman John Lewis’s autobiography March, which recounts his early days as a civil rights leader and is in the form of a comic or "graphic novel". A few key examples... more

     

    This essay on the nature of the boundary of the comics form is an analysis of US Congressman John Lewis’s autobiography March, which recounts his early days as a civil rights leader and is in the form of a comic or "graphic novel". A few key examples are examined in which normally distinct images and textual elements blend together thereby bringing into question the nature of the boundary in a more general sense as it functions in the comics. Some of the formal elements of the graphic novel analyzed by the essay include its symbolic composition, arrangement of panels and images, treatment of light and dark areas, deployment of racialized icons, and blurring of temporalities and history. Dieser Aufsatz über die Natur der Grenze im Medienformat "Comic" analysiert die Autobiographie des US-Kongressabgeordneten John Lewis, March, die seine frühen Tage als Bürgerrechtler in Form eines Comics (Graphic Novel) erzählt. Anhand einiger prominenter Beispiele, in denen normalerweise räumlich getrennte Bild- und Textelemente des Comics verschmelzen, wird auf allgemeinerer Ebene das Wesen der Grenze im Comic erörtert. Es werden verschiedene formale Elemente der Graphic Novel untersucht, z. B. ihre symbolische Komposition, das Arrangement von Panels und Bildern, die Behandlung von hellen und dunklen Bereichen sowie der Einsatz von ethnischen Symbolen und das Verschwimmen von Zeitlichkeiten und Geschichte.

     

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    ISBN: 978-3-96234-012-4
    DDC Categories: 800; 741.5
    Collection: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag
    Subjects: Comicroman; Lewis, John Robert; Autobiografie
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  3. Comic-grotesque metamorphoses : boundaries between illness and health in Ken Dahl’s monsters

    Monsters are no rarity in the history of U. S.-American comics, but in Ken Dahl's eponymous small press comic they assume a articular function: His morphing monsters tell a story about how being a carrier of the herpes virus leads to incessant worry... more

     

    Monsters are no rarity in the history of U. S.-American comics, but in Ken Dahl's eponymous small press comic they assume a articular function: His morphing monsters tell a story about how being a carrier of the herpes virus leads to incessant worry and social isolation. Dahl's narrative exposes the instability of the body's boundaries, and that of the distinction between illness and health. This chapter reads Monsters through traditions and theorizations of the Monstrous and Grotesque, as well as cultural histories of medicine that have shed light on discourses of contagion and (in-)visibility of illness. It is the idiosyncrasies of the comics medium and its history, and those of Dahl's stylistic choices, that enable a particularly tangible representation of social and personal illness experience. Monster sind keine Seltenheit in der Geschichte U. S.-amerikanischer Comics, doch in Ken Dahls gleichnamigem 'small press'-Comic haben sie eine besondere Funktion: Dahls sich ständig wandelnde Monster erzählen eine Geschichte davon, wie ein (vermeintlicher) Träger des Herpesvirus an unaufhörlicher Sorge und sozialer Isolation leidet. Die Erzählung enthüllt die instabilen Grenzen des Körpers und die verschwommene Grenze zwischen Krankheit und Gesundheit. Dieses Kapitel liest "Monsters" im Lichte von Traditionen und Theorien des Monströsen und Grotesken sowie von kulturgeschichtlichen Studien zur Medizin, die Diskurse über Ansteckung und die (Un-)Sichtbarkeit von Krankheit genauer beleuchtet haben. Es sind die Eigenheiten des Mediums Comic und seiner Geschichte, und die von Dahls künstlerischem Stil, die hier zusammen eine besonders greifbare Darstellung von sozialer und persönlicher Krankheitserfahrung ermöglichen.

     

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    Collection: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag
    Subjects: Comicroman; Krankheit <Motiv>; Gesundheit <Motiv>; Dahl, Ken; Infektion <Motiv>
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  4. Defying Borders : Building Homes in the Borderlands in Jaime Cortez’s 'Sexile'
    Author: Linke, Kai

    In this article I read Jaime Cortez's graphic novel 'Sexile' as an intervention into linear narratives of crossing such as the "victim-rescuing narrative" (Shaksari) or the "transsexual narrative" (Bhanji). 'Sexile' celebrates the resourcefulness and... more

     

    In this article I read Jaime Cortez's graphic novel 'Sexile' as an intervention into linear narratives of crossing such as the "victim-rescuing narrative" (Shaksari) or the "transsexual narrative" (Bhanji). 'Sexile' celebrates the resourcefulness and creativity with which the denizens of the borderlands craft homes in the no-man’s land between departures and impossible arrivals. I argue that it is both the story that Sexile (re)tells as well as the format of the graphic novel that make 'Sexile' a life-affirming, useful, and challenging monument to life in the borderlands of national and gendered belonging. In diesem Artikel lese ich Jaime Cortez' Graphic Novel 'Sexile' als eine Intervention in lineare Narrative der Überschreitung wie das "Opfer-Rettungs- Narrativ" (Shaksari) oder das "transsexuelle Narrativ" (Bhanji). 'Sexile' zelebriert den Einfallsreichtum und die Kreativität, mit denen die Bewohner_innen der Grenzzonen sich im Niemandsland zwischen Aufbrüchen und unmöglichen Ankünften ein Zuhause erschaffen. Ich vertrete die These, dass sowohl die Geschichte, die Sexile (nach) erzählt, als auch das Format der Graphic Novel 'Sexile' zu einem lebensbejahenden, nützlichen, herausfordernden Monument für das Leben in den Grenzzonen nationaler und geschlechtlicher Zugehörigkeit machen.

     

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    Collection: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag
    Subjects: Comicroman; Grenzüberschreitung; Transgender; Erzählforschung
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  5. Ally Sloper Meets Jack the Ripper : Comedy and Fear in the 19th Century
    Author: Sabin, Roger

    In Britain in the late 1880s, two pop cultural icons had an extraordinary meeting: one, Ally Sloper, the fictional star of comic books and stage productions and the other Jack the Ripper, the real-life serial killer who was instantly fictionalised on... more

     

    In Britain in the late 1880s, two pop cultural icons had an extraordinary meeting: one, Ally Sloper, the fictional star of comic books and stage productions and the other Jack the Ripper, the real-life serial killer who was instantly fictionalised on page and stage as the bogeyman of the moment. The aim here is to explore the way in which this dynamic developed, with a focus on a single issue of 'Ally Sloper’s Half-Holiday' (October 20, 1888), which appeared at the point in time when it was first realised that the killings were being done by a lone individual, and when panic was at its peak. What was at stake politically in the comic’s reaction? What can it tell us about Victorian attitudes to fear, death, and poverty? About the status of women? Finally, about law and order, and the social contract that existed between citizen and police? Im Großbritannien der späten 1880er-Jahre trafen zwei Ikonen der Pop-Kultur aufeinander: Ally Sloper, der fiktive Star aus Comics und Bühnenproduktionen, und der reale Serienmörder Jack the Ripper, der umgehend als Horrorfigur der Stunde für Bühne und Literatur entdeckt und fiktionalisiert wurde. Hier soll diese Dynamik untersucht werden und zwar anhand einer einzigen Ausgabe von 'Ally Sloper’s Half-Holiday' (20. Oktober 1888). Diese erschien genau zu dem Zeitpunkt, als erstmals erkannt wurde, dass die Morde von einer einzelnen Person begangen wurden und die Panik damit ihren Höhepunkt erreichte. Welche politischen Reaktionen konnte der Comic hervorrufen? Was verrät er uns in Bezug auf das Verhältnis zu Angst, Tod und Armut im viktorianischen Zeitalter? Über den Status von Frauen? Und was sagt er über Recht und Ordnung bzw. die gesellschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen Bürgern und Polizei aus?

     

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    Subjects: Ally Sloper's HalfHoliday; Jack, the Ripper; Viktorianisches Zeitalter; Frau; Gesellschaft; Großbritannien
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