Publications

This article looks at the intersection of web-based comics and print graphic memoirs authored by transgender Brazilian comics artists. Brazilian comics have in recent years opened up to internet platforms, a change that has proved particularly fruitful for LGBTQ+ artists, traditionally marginalised by the Brazilian comics industry. The article examines two case studies – those of Luiza Lemos and Alice Pereira, both authors of comics originally ...

Nostalgia is an emotion that binds a memory to an emotional component, divided between melancholy and comfort. In comics, nostalgia can be elicited through several thematic, formal, and structural triggers. McGuire’s Here (2014) is a peculiar example of these dynamics. Through a non-chronological, fragmentary progression, the graphic novel tells several mundane moments of millions of years of a corner of the United States, seen from a fixed ...

It is difficult to clearly frame the relationships between a medium such as comics and (old and new) generations. Still, the role of comics in defining a generational condition cannot be underestimated. Not only because comics have helped give voice to and show generational similarities and belongings, but also because the imaginary of different generations has manifested itself in the various media practices of consumption and production that ...

This contribution investigates a specific subcategory of digital comics -- part of what I call 'expanded digital comics' - considered by many to be inherently more interactive than prototypical comics, and often related to video games. However, whether they are indeed more interactive, and what it means for a comic to be interactive at all, is an open question. Trough a reframing of the concept of interactivity as one of the possible subtypes of ...

Generative AIs are models that, having been trained on large datasets of images, can create original art. Although we are still far from a hegemony of comics made this way, 2022 has already seen the emergence of a new generation of AIs, and with it an initial, yet already significant proliferation of AI-created comics and graphic novels (the most notable cases being Fastwalkers, Manouach 2022; The Abolition of Man, Grubaugh 2022; Prompt. ...

This chapter provides an overview of the variety of contemporary digital comics. Digital comics encompass diverse objects, both online and offline, ranging from print comics that are digitized to webcomics that resist print publications and have greater affinities with video games or animation. The chapter regroups these different formats into three main categories; it reconstructs the history of digital comics, isolating four partially ...

This article attempts to unpack the complexity of digital comics by quickly reconstructing their salient evolutionary lines, contextualizing them within the broader media landscape and discussing the directions they are prominently developing. It begins by tracing the many remediations that have marked the history of comics, foregrounding some tensions underlying the comics form: seriality and its implications; the dialectic between popular form ...

Digital comics, marked by their dynamic evolution, encompass a wide range of narrative styles, artistic techniques and interactive features. They hold the potential to transform how we engage with digital and virtual spaces, carrying significant implications for society, culture and politics. The investigation conducted in this Special Issue aims to shed light on the dynamic interplay between comics and digital technology, examining how it ...

Questo articolo si concentra sui meccanismi nostalgici nel fumetto contemporaneo, rintracciando una serie di caratteristiche tematiche, stilistiche e strutturali che, anche grazie alla natura costitutivamente incompleta e interattiva della narrazione a fumetti, concorrono a dar vita a un effetto nostalgico. In primo luogo, quindi, l’articolo indaga le caratteristiche medium-specifiche del fumetto viste nella loro versione “debole”, cioè come ...