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...
Carnet de recherche sur/en bande dessinée
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...
[“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...
In 2014, I wrote a short piece on Matt Madden’s brilliant attempt to summarize the history of American comic books in six panels. Among other things, I suggested that it was difficult to imagine...
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...
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...
C’est finalement mi-mars que paraîtra mon ouvrage sur Heavy Metal magazine, la version américaine de Métal Hurlant. J’ai déjà écrit à trois reprises ici sur le processus d’élaboration de cet ouvrage: d’abord sous la forme d’une...
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...
Métal Hurlant est au centre d’une intense circulation internationale de la bande dessinée dans les années 70. Dès sa création, début 1975, le magazine devient un de ces objets culturels diffusés et commentés partout,...
Ce texte se propose de revenir sur un parcours de recherche autour des histoires croisées de Métal Hurlant et de Heavy Metal, sa « version américaine ». L’ambition de ce projet était de présenter...
Masterpiece Comics est un recueil écrit, dessiné et mis en couleur par Robert Sikoryak, dans lequel l’auteur présente des adaptations de classiques littéraires hybridées avec des œuvres et des registres existants en bande dessinée....