By Anastasia Ulanowicz On 13 April, 2019, the field of comics studies — and indeed, the humanities more generally — lost Donald Ault, a dynamic…
By Laura Schlichting and Johannes C. P. Schmid While comics have traditionally been associated with fictional, especially funny and/or fantastic stories, they have in recent decades…
By Dirk Vanderbeke Abstract Investigations into comics and graphic novels usually start with a quick survey of their history since the first humans drew pictures…
By Nina Mickwitz 1. Introduction Comics claim their stories are based on actuality rather than imagination and negotiate particular demands. They must inform but also engage…
By Dieter Declercq This article investigates the comics of American graphic artist Matt Bors, which fall into two main genres: satirical cartoons and graphic (or comics)…
By Lukas R.A. Wilde Abstract The assessment of the capabilities of drawn images to refer, to represent, and to document will usually take a fundamental distinction…
By Wibke Weber and Hans-Martin Rall Abstract Comics journalism and animated documentary are two genres that have experienced exponential growth in the last 20 years—in practice…
By Chiao-I Tseng and Tilmann Altenberg Abstract In this article, we argue that non-fictional graphic war narratives are a powerful tool for influencing people’s interest in…
By Ofer Ashkenazi and Jakob Dittmar This paper considers potential ways comics narratives with a documentary claim can participate in the academic discussion of history.…
By Jörn Ahrens 1. Introduction This article will discuss the ability of comics to function as modes of documentation based on the analysis of two pages…