Catégorie : Bande dessinée de recherche
La bande dessinée comme langage ou support pour la recherche
The Assassination Attempt
A lot has been written about the way 9/11 was anticipated in Hollywood movies and comic books. I tend to go back farther in these cases, and think about Edgar Allan Poe in “The...
Understanding Genre in Comics – minicomic
I have just published a new book, Understanding Genres in Comics, at Palgrave MacMillan. This minicomic details the origin of the project and the way it fits into my previous research. Of course, since...
Review: Alison Landsberg’s Engaging the Past.
In Engaging the Past, a slim, well-designed and useful book, Alison Landsberg attempts to chart the ways in which mass cultural artifacts, such as Hollywood movies and major TV shows allow their viewers to discover and process history, in ways which differ from written accounts by historians, but that she refuses to dismiss as merely superficial or romanticized.
1981-1982 Video Games as Culture – Graphic Notes
[“a media” should really be “a medium” throughout… the French usage, in which “media” is perfectly standard as a singular form seeped into this somehow] This research mini-comic is meant as an...
“Invisible” Comics – Graphic Notes
This article contains graphic research notes regarding the existence of “hidden” or “invisible” comics ; graphic novels for young adults which remain outside the boundaries of comics studies and comics criticism. This was conceived...
Appel à contributions: Langage universitaire et bande dessinée – théorie et pratique
Appel à contributions pour un numéro spécial de la revue Essais de l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne. Avril 2017 L’année 2015 a vu la publication, par les presses universitaires de Harvard, de la thèse en...
Angles, publier les formes nouvelles de la recherche. Entretien avec Yan Brailowsky.
L’émergence de nouvelles formes de recherche est bien entendu tributaire de l’existence d’institutions désireuses de les publier. J’en ai fait l’expérience au cours de tribulations visant à faire publier l’article en bande dessinée que...
11 thèses en BD, un projet de médiation scientifique. Entretien avec Nicolas Beck.
Ce billet, qui prend la forme d’un entretien, fait partie d’un travail de compréhension et de description de la façon dont la bande dessinée peut servir l’activité de recherche. Une des questions qui se...
Sequentials, a comics scholarship project. Talking with Ashley Manchester.
Following the critical recognition of Unflattening, by Nick Sousanis (recently published in France by the Editions de l’An 2/Actes Sud as Le Déploiement), the burgeoning field of comics as scholarship has been the object of...