Comics | Histories

Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto; Assist.-Prof. Dr. Felix Giesa; Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer

doi:10.5771/9783988580566

Summary

This edited study is the first book in a new series of publications which aims to revise the wide spectrum of what are now regarded as comics (including caricatures, cartoons, graphic novels, etc.), broadening the view of Comics Studies, not only retrospectively but also prospectively at a time when modern media identities are dissolving. While there are already significant numbers of publications that foreground representations of history in comics, our edited study (and the new series) seeks to highlight contributions to history by comics in particular. In addition to that, the book (and the series) aims to address comics from a transnational, yet culturally situated, perspective, without privileging national histories of the medium in the narrower sense, i.e., as confined to the North American, Franco-Belgian or Japanese publication markets. The contributions to this first book in the series not only address questions relating to practices of canonisation, periodisation and digitisation, but also provide historical perspectives on a variety of humorous magazines and newspapers and deal with issues relating to adapting and revising comics in different parts of the world and in different cultures. The contributors to this book include a number of international scholars working in different areas and disciplines, such as literary and cultural studies, media studies, history, children’s and youth literature research, computational studies and digital humani-ties. The book is divided into four parts, entitled ‘Re-Reading Punch Magazines’, ‘(Re-)Productions’, ‘War [in] Comics’ and ‘Periodization, Canonization, Digitization’ respectively. The editors of the book hope that the collection of (ongoing) research projects will spark readers’ curiosity and ignite their ambition to explore comics|histories in multifarious ways. The newly launched series is looking for future projects that will also focus on the historiography of Comics Studies, in other words, inter- and transdisciplinary research on comics as objects of analysis in themselves. Multidisciplinary assessments of the field and its practices in terms of research and publishing and author- and editorship promise new insights into processes of knowledge formation, as well as the power relations involved. With contributions byMohit Abrol | Stéphane Collignon | Alexander Dunst | Felix Giesa | Rita Hartel | Mark Hibbet | Anja Lange | Sylvain Lesage | Paul Malone | Jean-Matthieu Méon | Anu Sugathan

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-98858-055-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-98858-056-6
Publisher: Rombach Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden
Series: Comics | Histories
Volume: 1
Language: English
Pages: 259
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 1 - 6 Download chapter (PDF)
Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto, Felix Giesa, Christina Meyer Download chapter (PDF)
1. Works Cited
1. Anu Sugathan Download chapter (PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. Vernacular Punches, Humor Magazines, Cartoons, Comic Strips and Newspaper Culture in India
  3. Comic Books and Graphic Novels
  4. Conclusion
  5. Bibliography
  6. Appendix
2. Mohit Abrol Download chapter (PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. Punch and the Politics of Image and Text
  3. The Delhi Sketch Book
  4. The Indian Charivari
  5. The Parsee Punch
  6. Conclusion
  7. Bibliography
1. Jean-Matthieu Méon Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. The Current Comics Patrimonialization of Woodcut Novels
  3. 3. The Paratextual Apparatus of Patrimonialization
  4. 4. Turning an Entre-deux Situation into a Third Position
  5. 5. Conclusion
  6. Works Cited
2. Stéphane Collignon Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. The Print Cartoon: One of the Origins of Animation
  3. 3. Characteristics of Caricature
  4. 4. Towards an Animated Aesthetic
  5. 5. Return to Sender
  6. Bibliography
1. Paul M. Malone Download chapter (PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. The Press and Consumer Culture in Interwar Vienna
  3. The First Austrian Republic: Heyday of the Comic Strips
  4. The Federal State
  5. The German Reich
  6. Conclusion
  7. Works Cited
2. Anja Lange Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 1. 2.1 The Anachronous Events
    2. 2.2 Flashbacks and Foreshadowing in Dira
  3. 3. National Tendencies in the Graphic Novel Dira
  4. 4. Conclusion
  5. Works Cited
3. Sylvain Lesage Download chapter (PDF)
  1. I. Introduction
  2. II. Coral and the Algerian War
  3. III. 2° Coral and Graphic Experiments
  4. IV. 3° War of Images and Cultural Memory of Conflicts
  5. V. 4° Coral and the History of Comics: French Comics and the Bildungsroman
  6. VI. Conclusion
  7. Works Cited
1. Mark Hibbett Download chapter (PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. The Marvel Age
  3. The Production of Culture Approach
  4. Using the Production of Culture Approach to Periodize ‘The Marvel Age’
  5. Conclusion
  6. Works Cited
2. Felix Giesa, Rita Hartel, Alexander Dunst Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Historical Research on German Comics
  3. 3. Digital Comics Research to Date
  4. 4. Pilot Study
  5. 5. Conclusion and Outlook
  6. 6. Bibliography
List of ContributorsPages 251 - 254 Download chapter (PDF)
IndexPages 255 - 259 Download chapter (PDF)