Catégorie : In English
The Frodo Franchise and reflecting back on The Lord of the Rings
It’s easy to forget how and when things changed. And it is perhaps even easier to forget these changes if they fail to fit into preexisting categories, or if they appear to have been...
“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...
Mapping the reception of the Ody-C comic book with Twitter
This text details the method used to investigate the reception of Ody-C (2014-…) using Twitter discussions. The results suggest a quantifiable discrepancy between the creators’s preferred frames of reading and the readers’. Ody-C is...
The success of comic book movies: an interactive chart.
There is little question that comic book movies have become one of the pillars of contemporary Hollywood. About 150 films adapting comics characters have been produced in the USA since Richard Donner’s Superman in...
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...