{"title":"Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis, Nhora Lucía Serrano (ed.) (2021)","authors":"Silvia Vari","doi":"10.1386/stic_00083_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00083_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis, Nhora Lucía Serrano (ed.) (2021)\u0000 New York: Routledge, 268 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-13818-615-6, h/bk, £130","PeriodicalId":41167,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42115733","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":"Editorial","authors":"Isabelle Hesse, S. Lightman","doi":"10.1386/stic_00046_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00046_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41167,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49397564","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":"Family Resemblances by Chris Gavaler","authors":"Chris Gavaler, Maite Urcaregui","doi":"10.1386/stic_00056_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00056_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41167,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48273392","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 problem with empathy: Justification and appeasement in Hey, Kiddo and Real Friends","authors":"Danielle Sutton","doi":"10.1386/stic_00049_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00049_1","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, Danielle Sutton examines the way in which the propensity towards narrative empathy in texts for children ultimately serves to rationalize abuse in two autobiographical comics for young people: Jarrett Krosoczka’s Hey, Kiddo and Shannon Hale’s Real Friends.\u0000","PeriodicalId":41167,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44047759","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":"Family Eggsperts by Eggy","authors":"(Eggy) Barbara M. Eggert, Ilona Stütz","doi":"10.1386/stic_00051_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00051_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41167,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47509836","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":"‘It’s the brightness of the idea’: Talking comics with Brendan McCarthy","authors":"J. Klaehn","doi":"10.1386/stic_00058_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00058_7","url":null,"abstract":"Visionary British artist and designer Brendan McCarthy is internationally known for his singularly unique approach to art and craft. His comics debut, Sometime Stories, was published in 1977, and he went on to publish work with Vanguard Illustrated, Strange Days, 2000 AD, and Vertigo. He was part of the famous ‘British Invasion’ of the comics industry in the 1980s, which actually led to the creation of DC Vertigo and created new pathways for comics to gain wider influence within both Hollywood and the broader pop culture. With writer Peter Milligan, he co-created Freakwave, Strange Days, Paradax!, Rogan Gosh and Skin, and he painted covers for Milligan’s Shade the Changing Man DC Vertigo series. A pioneer in the field of computer animation, he created visuals for the 90s computer animated TV series ReBoot, which preceded Pixar and Dreamworks, and he contributed to a wide range of TV series, feature films, animation, and commercials during his more than two decades spent working in Hollywood. He co-wrote and was a designer on the feature film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). His more recent comics work includes Dream Gang, published with Dark Horse, and The Zaucer of Zilk (with writer Al Ewing and colourist Len O’Grady) for 2000 AD. This interview explores key dimensions of his career in comics, British comics and the ‘British Invasion’ of the 1980s, Paradax!, and the influence and inspiration of David Bowie.","PeriodicalId":41167,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49046602","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 the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability, Eszter Szép (2020)","authors":"Shreya Sangai","doi":"10.1386/stic_00059_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00059_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability, Eszter Szép (2020)\u0000Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press,\u0000ISBN 978-0-8142-5772-2, p/bk, $32.95","PeriodicalId":41167,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42988629","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":"Story of Mirrors: One of Those Family Stories You Hear by José Sherwood González","authors":"José Sherwood González, Anne Magnussen","doi":"10.1386/stic_00052_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00052_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41167,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43394359","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":"Can stereotypical housewives in Flemish family comics divorce? The cases of Jommeke and De Kiekeboes","authors":"Michel De Dobbeleer","doi":"10.1386/stic_00048_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00048_1","url":null,"abstract":"For decades the best-selling comics in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium, have without any doubt been the so-called familiestrips. In this article, I probe the Flemishness of this particular type of comics book (or ‘album’). Since there is a lot of confusion, I explain at length why ‘family comics’ would be a more suitable English translation for this term than the more obvious and more often encountered ‘family strip’ (which better suits the Dutch-type familiestrip). The article’s other objective is to explain why not only the Zeitgeist, but also the very format, of the Flemish familiestrip has made it difficult to broach the topic of serious inter-family conflicts such as marital problems among protagonists. I will demonstrate this by focusing on the stereotypical housewife characters of what could be considered Flanders’s two most ‘basic’ familiestrip series: Jommeke (for c. 7 to 10 years old) and De Kiekeboes (c. 10+). With the help of two thematically comparable albums about the mothers in the respective families, I will show how their creators have tried to deal with the tricky topic of marital problems – and, related to that, the emancipation of women – while still respecting the Flemish-type familiestrip format. Together with an elaboration on how Jommeke originated and how De Kiekeboes has changed its focus in the new millennium, the analysis of the albums shows what is possible within the rather strict but nevertheless evolving ‘rules’ of the Flemish familiestrip, and what is not possible with respect to inter-family conflicts in Flanders’s by-far most successful kind of comics.","PeriodicalId":41167,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46724632","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":"Mother: A Family Story by Upasana Das","authors":"Upasana Das, Shromona Das","doi":"10.1386/stic_00053_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00053_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41167,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45036017","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}