N. Nguyen, Philip Kaenel, M. Kelly, Charles Forsdick, Rikke Platz Cortsen, S. Rheault, H. Frey, M. Nixon
{"title":"Exhibition and Book Reviews","authors":"N. Nguyen, Philip Kaenel, M. Kelly, Charles Forsdick, Rikke Platz Cortsen, S. Rheault, H. Frey, M. Nixon","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2016.090107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2016.090107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"114 1","pages":"113-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86238086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comics and Fine Art: Introduction","authors":"Laurike in ’t Veld, H. Frey","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2016.090201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2016.090201","url":null,"abstract":"In an article titled ‘Fantomandrake a St-Germain-des-Pres’ published in Giff-Wiff, the French comic fanzine of the 1960s, the critic Claude Beylie promoted an exhibition of the work of the American artist Lee Falk being held at the American Cultural Centre on the rue Dragon (3–15 June 1966).1 Beylie sketched in words a picture of the colourful tourist scene of St Germain, before going on to celebrate an exhibition that brought together drawings and archival images from the creator of the Mandrake and the ‘Fantome’ strips. After adding some biographical details on Falk, Beylie concluded with the following witticism: ‘Un espoir fou vous traverse: qu’un jour le Fantomandrake traverse la Seine, sur un tapis volant, et aille s’installer au Musee du Louvre, d’ou il fera, d’un coup de baguette magique, disparaitre la Joconde?’ [A mad hope comes across your mind: that one day the Phantom and Mandrake cross the river Seine on a magic carpet and alight in the Louvre where, with the touch of a wand, he magics the Mona Lisa away].2 Anecdotes and jokes tell us a great deal, and this is no exception.","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"67 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76532606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A War Like Any Other . . . Or Nobler?: The Great War in the EC Comics","authors":"Joanne Meon","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2015.080204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2015.080204","url":null,"abstract":"The U.S. publisher EC Comics produced several war comics between 1950 and 1955. These comic books, especially the issues published during Harvey Kurtzman's editorship, are still considered masterpieces, as rare examples of war comics attempting to present an unvarnished account of the ordeals of war. This article focuses on the treatment of the Great War in comics. While current stories about the First World War usually underline its inhuman realities for the soldiers, the EC stories offered a more ambivalent representation. The now traditional stories of trenches and suffering infantry soldiers were counterbalanced by stories of heroic air fights and chivalrous aces. This approach towards the First World War as a 'noble war' progressively increased during the run of these comics, refl ecting the shifting balance that characterised the production of EC war comics: that between the constraints of the market, artistic ambition and the popular cultural mythology of air aces.","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"4 1","pages":"61-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90581752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contextualising the Offenstadt Brothers' Wartime Comics and Their Reception From Barrack-Room Comedy to 'Amazing' Propaganda","authors":"Benoît Glaude","doi":"10.3167/eca.2015.080202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2015.080202","url":null,"abstract":"The forms taken up by French comics in the Offenstadt brothers’ wartime weeklies echo other representations of the Great War produced behind the frontlines, including the music hall, popular imagery and illustrated newspapers. The Offenstadt brothers’ picture stories, which staged comic operas starring soldiers and conformed to French propaganda instructions, were a hit with soldiers and civilians (including children), aside from some offended Catholic critics. This essay contextualizes their success, focusing on the reception of the comics, particularly those by Louis Forton.","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"16 1","pages":"9-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75577644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The First World War and the German Revolution of 1918–1919 in East German Comics","authors":"Michel F. Scholz","doi":"10.3167/eca.2015.080203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2015.080203","url":null,"abstract":"The publication of comics from the 1950s onwards in East Germany started as a defensive reaction against Western comics. It did not take long for the mediumto be used as an instrument for socialist propaganda. This was especially the case with the historical-political comics in the magazine Atze. This article provides an overview of the representation of the First World War and the German Revolution of 1918–1919 in Atze. It shows that Atze’s stories closely followed the historical perspective prescribed by the communist party as well as the concept of the socialist picture story developed in the 1960s. These stories unfolded across series of individual images that generally avoided wordballoons and sound effects and were accompanied by detailed text. Using a realistic style, such stories tried to convey a strong sense of authenticity but they remained unable to develop complex characters or stories. However, in reflecting the changing political climate of their times, these comics provide a rich source of material for studying the portrayal of history in East Germany.","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"181 1","pages":"34-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86085238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Past and Present War: Political Cartoons and the Memory of the First World War in Britain","authors":"Ross J. Wilson","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2015.080205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2015.080205","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the image of the First World War in British political cartoons, from the aftermath of the conflict to the present day, as an active process of remembrance. Through an analysis of cartoons in newspapers and periodicals in Britain, this study assesses how a distinct vision of the war is formed within society as a means of addressing contemporary concerns beyond the events of 1914–1918. The use of such war imagery in television, film and fiction has been recently critiqued by scholars who have lamented the way in which this popular memory obscures the history of the conflict. However, a study of political cartoons reveals that rather than constituting a cliche, specific representations of the war, namely the image of the battlefields, the trenches and suffering soldiers, acquire new meanings and constitute a dynamic process of remembrance which uses the past to critique and assess the present.","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"23 1","pages":"83-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88359830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Great War in Comics: Workings and Imagery","authors":"Maaheen Ahmed","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2015.080201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2015.080201","url":null,"abstract":"Within Europe and beyond, the centenary of the Great War began to be commemorated in 2014. As with any act of retelling history and re-creating memories, the events orchestrated around this centenary involve a certain tailoring of narratives and a process of forgetting that refl ects more on the present milieu than the past. As noted by the sociologist and philosopher Elena Esposito, recent neurophysiological fi ndings posit memory ‘as a procedural capability realizing a constant recategorisation’. Especially relevant for this issue of European Comic Art is her claim that the memory of society as a whole ‘is constituted, fi rst of all, by the mass media and ruled by their always changing forms’. As emphasised by the articles in this issue, popular media during and after the First World War (music hall, illustrated magazines, comics, cartoons, pulps) were propagators of images that have persisted, often with altered signifi cance, into our times. Although veterans of the First World War are no longer alive, the memory of the war in the public sphere is mediated through what Pierre Nora has famously called lieux de memoire, ‘moments of history torn away from the movement of history, then returned; no longer quite life, not yet death, like shells on the shore when the sea of living memory has receded’. These include, but are not limited to, places","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"46 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83955538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Over Under Sideways Down: An Interview with Karrie Fransman","authors":"Ann Miller","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2015.080103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2015.080103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"52 1","pages":"15-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82938942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dan Mazur a Alexander Danner, Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present (London: Thames a Hudson, 2014)","authors":"J. Berndt","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2015.080109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2015.080109","url":null,"abstract":"Dan Mazur & Alexander Danner, Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014)","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"40 1","pages":"157-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77712566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}