Historia e historización, ficción y metaficción en Los surcos del azar, de Paco Roca by Jacqueline Sabbah

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State Protection and Identification in Hellboy: of reformed devils and other Others in the Pentagon by Maaheen Ahmed

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Privatized Futures, Climate Control, and Resistance in Recent Scottish Dystopian Fiction by Peter Clandfield

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Unterzakhn, Dirty Laundry, and the Map of Lost New York: An Interview with Leela Corman by Jaime Cleland

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Du Transperceneige de Jacques Lob et Jean-Marc Rochette à Snowpiercer de Bong Joon-Ho : une inspiration mutuelle entre arts visuels dans le domaine de la science-fiction. by Suk Hee Joo

“…The release of the movie Snowpiercer, directed by the Korean Bong Joon-Ho, occurs in 2013, about twenty years after the publication of the post-apocalyptic graphic novel Le Transperceneige, which was created by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette. …”
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Le Transperceneige et Snowpiercer : figuration, sas et espaces de transit(ion) by Tessa Sermet

“…The graphic novel The Transperceneige and the movie Snowpiercer depicts societies forced to find refuge in a train after a climatic disaster. …”
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La Commedia in giallo : tre esempi di riscritture dantesche by Giulio Genovese

“…This contribution analyzes the Dantean influence in the crime genre, in particular within three recent Dantean re-writings : Giulio Leoni’s series of novels on Dante, the RAI tv series “La Omicidi” and the graphic novel Detective Dante. Through a comparative analysis, the article locates the similarities and differences of each operation, and shows how the three media have handled this specific use of the Dantean authority and imaginery.…”
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Book review: Autobiography of my dead brother. Walter Dean Myers (author) and Christopher Myers (illustrator). by Angus Norquay

“…Walter Dean Myer's graphic novel highlights the daily realities of being a black teenager in the city, and the fear and danger that have to be overcome to stay alive.…”

La imagen como testimonio: paisajes visuales de la violencia en la Toma del Palacio de Justicia en 1985, en Bogotá (Colombia) by Juan Sebastián Granada-Cardona

“…In this article, I propose an analysis of the witness’s image, based on the case of a graphic novel (Los Once) dealing with the Palace of Justice’s taking in Bogotá in 1985. …”
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Ti-Girl Power: American Utopianism in the Queer Superhero Text by Matt Yockey

“…This paper examines the ways in which artist-writer Jaime Hernandez engages with issues of national belonging in terms of ethnicity and gender in his 2012 superhero graphic novel God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls. …”
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De la médiation à la médiatisation du témoignage : formes du trauma et de sa transmission dans Maus d’Art Spiegelman by Audrey Bardizbanian

“…This article means to discuss the issue of trauma and its transgenerational transmission in a postmemorial context, through an analysis of the representation of Holocaust memory and its media(tiza)tion in Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel, Maus. This study more precisely intends to highlight the aesthetic strategies used by the author to reconstruct his father’s testimony and the means whereby trauma comes to be inscribed in the artistic form of the medium itself. …”
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“Making Noise” with Comics: An Interview with Argentine Author, Artist, Singer, and Song Writer, Isol by Jennifer Nagtegaal

“…The interview focuses on the so-called “discomic” Novela gráfica (Graphic Novel), released in 2014 by the Buenos Aires-based band SIMA, for which Isol served as lead vocalist, but also touches on some of the Argentine artist’s more recent collaborative and interdisciplinary art projects and performances. …”
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Mélancolie spartiate. 300 ou la réactivation du mythe de Léonidas pour mobiliser la société contre le déclin de l’Occident by Vivien Barrière, Jean Hedin

“…The movie was inspired by a graphic novel by Frank Miller, which presented a distorted vision of Sparta as the mother of American democracy and a model for countering expansionist and liberticidal projects from the Middle East. …”
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“From in the light I touched the light” by Anne-Laure Tissut

“…In the collaborative graphic novel Ever, writer Blake Butler and visual artist and writer Derek White explore the various forms of interaction between text and image to open out the possibilities of meaning and representation. …”
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Tat[o]ueur : pouvoirs du tatouage dans Little Tulip, de Jerome Charyn et François Boucq by Sophie Vallas

“…Little Tulip (2014) is the third collaboration between US writer Jerome Charyn and French comic strip artist François Boucq. This graphic novel moves back and forth between the USSR of the 1940s and 1950s and New York City in the 1970s to tell the story of Paul, a US-born tattoo artist who spent his childhood in a Gulag colony in Siberia where, as Pavel, he learnt his craft. …”
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The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Rob Zombie, 2009): An Animated Exploitation of Exploitation Cinema by Pierre Floquet

“…This animation film is not just an adaptation of the eponymous graphic novel, but, rather, an exploitation of the tricks and clichés of exploitation cinema in the form of animated cinema. …”
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Thrown to the (Were)Wolves: Sisterhood, Vengeance, and Liberal Feminism in Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle’s <i>Squad</i> by Jessica Caravaggio

“…In Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle’s graphic novel <i>Squad</i>, protagonist Becca and her new friends at Piedmont High are not human adolescents but a pack of werewolves who must kill to stay alive and select teenage boys—“the WORST ones” (70)—as their meal of choice. …”
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(Nie)zwyczajna kremlowska codzienność - Fabien Nury, Thierry Robin: "Śmierć Stalina. Prawdziwa historia... radziecka" by Marcin Kowalczyk

“…Marked by dread and uncertainty, the everyday reality in the Kremlin during Joseph Stalin’s era is one such case evocatively presented in Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin’s graphic novel The Death of Stalin: A True Soviet Story. …”
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Désenchanter l’habitat spatial : environnements artificiels et mondes sans nature dans Aurora (K. S. Robinson), Shangri-La (M. Bablet) et Nos Temps contraires (G. Toriko) by Gatien Gambin

“…The novel Aurora (Kim Stanley Robinson, 2015), the graphic novel Shangri-La (Mathieu Bablet, 2016) and the manga Nos temps contraires (Kimi o Shinasenai tame no Monogatari, Gin Toriko, 2020-2022 [2017-2021 in Japan]) form a corpus using space habitat as a narrative setting. …”
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Les grandes guerres du XXe siècle dans No pasarán le jeu de Christian Lehmann : écrire et réécrire l’histoire pour les adolescents, du roman à la bande dessinée by Eléonore Hamaide-Jager

“…Rather than a mere adaptation, the graphic novel is a rewriting, in which the reading is made more complex by the shortening and reshaping of the overall structure. …”
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