By Nancy Pedri Comics are a complex unique narrative medium that practitioners and theorists alike struggle to define. “Defining comics,” Robert C. Harvey writes, “entails cutting…
By Thierry Groensteen I don’t know if the phenomenon is as noteworthy in other countries, but in France, it has been apparent for about ten years…
By Pascal Lefèvre In any medial product—be it a horror film, an animated documentary, or a humoristic daily strip—various constituting features are conflated, like medium, genre,…
By Bart Beaty On January 8, 2015, one day after Saïd and Chérif Kouachi forced their way into an editorial meeting of the French satirical weekly Charlie…
By Jan Baetens This article briefly introduces a collaborative project between Jan Baetens (text) and Johan De Moor (drawings) that offers a documentary presentation in comics…
By Nancy Pedri Multimodality is particularly important for the study of comics narration since comics are complex multimodal narratives that tell stories by combining not only…
By Irene Velentzas Gillian Whitlock and Anna Poletti, who prefer “autographics” to “graphic memoir,” describe it as “[l]ife narrative fabricated in and through drawing and design…
By Olga Michael Introduction Lynda Barry’s graphic memoirs, One! Hundred! Demons! (2002) and What It Is (2009), describe the autobiographical subject’s fragmented memories from her childhood and adulthood, primarily…
By Ho Che Anderson If the title didn’t already give it away, we’re here, folks, to talk about nostalgia: nostalgia in all its truth, in all…
By Charles Acheson Worden, Daniel, ed. The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World. University Press of Mississippi, 2015. Editor Daniel Worden begins The Comics…