{"title":"Reframing the perpetrator in contemporary comics: on the importance of the strange","authors":"Olga Michael","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2241530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2241530","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42307520","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":"“You are never done. You have to keep going.”: Teresa Wong on, before, and after the text","authors":"Amritha R. Krishnan, Smita Jha","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2238819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2238819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47714925","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":"Graphic sound and silence: Chris Ware’s aural depiction of alienation and isolation","authors":"R. Twomey","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2238806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2238806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46727458","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 lack and unfulfilment of daredevil: born again","authors":"Joshua Rene Cavazos","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2235406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2235406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48489495","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":"“I set out to make a comic that I would want to read”: a conversation on queer motherhood and LGBTQ+ comics with A.K. Summers","authors":"Chinmay Murali, Parvathy Ms","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2233582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2233582","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45741576","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":"Lines Telling ‘Real’ Stories. A Conversation with Elettra Stamboulis on the Rise and Development of Graphic Journalism in Italy","authors":"Barbara Spadaro, Elettra Stamboulis","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2221325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2221325","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This conversation with Elettra Stamboulis retraces the transnational context of the rise and development of comics journalism in Italy, illuminating its distinctive political and intellectual background. Stamboulis speaks about the concept of Reality based comics from its impact on the thriving Italian underground cultures of the 1980s and 1990s to the development into the Italian Fumetto di realtà at the turn of the 21st century. From her unique perspective as a comics author, curator, translator and activist, Stamboulis speaks about the encounter with Joe Sacco, which had a profound impact on a generation of Italian authors, and the curatorial and creative practices developed with Gianluca Costantini for the Komikazen International Festival of Reality Comics (2005–2015). Komikazen activated a vibrant and diverse scene of authors, activists and independent publishers from the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and its political and translational ethos would further expand into the magazines Inguine(Mah!)Gazine and G.I.U.D.A. Stamboulis’ intellectual and creative trajectory testifies to a collective research process that has been pushing the boundaries of the comics medium and exploring the intersection of reality, subjectivity and memory while tracing new transnational geographies. In this interview she reflects on the ambitions, practices, and continuing developments of these experiences.","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":"14 1","pages":"556 - 571"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49542520","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":"Introduction: transnational Italian comics: memory, migration, transformation","authors":"Daniele Comberiati, Barbara Spadaro","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2239334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2239334","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue introduces for the first time to the predominantly Anglophone arena of Comics Studies a strand of the globalising comics culture of the 21 century, namely the transnational Italian comics scene. Our aim has been to highlight the mobility and the multilingualism of Italian comics culture as well as the avenues of research evident in this emerging field. Two elements have been key in such an endeavour: a transnational perspective that embraces the mobility of Italian (comics) culture across geographical and linguistic borders (Burdett, Havely and Polezzi 2020; Spadaro 2022) and the engagement of contributors from different academic backgrounds related to Comics and Italian Studies. In this framework, memory and migration have emerged as powerful narrative themes in comics production and simultaneously as avenues of research in Comics Studies. This introduction outlines the rationale of the project and points towards further directions within the emerging field of Transnational Italian Comics Studies. Our starting point is that the phenomenology of the Italian fumetto cannot be contained within Italy and Italian language because it is intertwined with the long and ongoing history of mobility of Italian authors and readers and also because it springs from acts of translation – whether between languages, creative and industrial practices, or media. Comics and graphic novels help us think differently about the definition, the canons and the production of Italian culture, and this special issue calls for more robust theoretical investment from scholars in the field. Such expert engagement with the specificity of Italian transnational mobility – in terms of trajectories, practices, languages – highlights tensions within the globalising development of both comics culture and Comics Studies. This special issue aims to intensify the scholarly engagement with Italian comics and with the rapidly establishing canons, categories, and research questions of the broadly defined field of Transnational Comics Studies. The latter has burgeoned across various journals and book series, questioning definitions of French or Francophone (Forsdick et al. 2005), US (Denson, Meyer, and Stein 2013), European (Grove, Miller, and Magnussen 2019), Asian (Brienza 2016; Ogi et al. 2019Spanish (Magnussen 2018), German (Kraenzle and Ludewig 2020), and postcolonial (Mickwitz 2015) comics and canons, focusing on comics genres, authors and productions exemplary of transnational and transcultural exchange. In this spirit, our project engages ‘with narratives, histories and imaginaries that transcend national boundaries as well as with practices of comics production indebted to multiple comics traditions” (Kraenzle and Ludewig 2020, 2), advancing current debates that seek to globalise Comics Studies. Over the last twenty years, this JOURNAL OF GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS 2023, VOL. 14, NO. 4, 489–501 https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2239334","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":"14 1","pages":"489 - 501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47930771","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 Last Word” from The Source: André LeRoy Davis’ contributions to Hip Hop and comics","authors":"Darnel Degand","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2225593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2225593","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48802096","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":"Ms. Marvel and those Persian guys: unpacking Kamala Khan’s layers of crazy","authors":"Hans-Georg Erney","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2223662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2223662","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42493693","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}