Slache, le rire brusseleir de la radio à la bande dessinée by Benoît Crucifix, Sébastien Hermans

“…Presented in theaters and cabarets, covered in the press, and adapted into comics form for Spirou, Slache enjoyed a brief but dazzling popular success. …”
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Des cocottes en papier by Danièle Alexandre-Bidon

“…When dealing with poultry breeding, comics books are reflecting social and economics issues of their times. …”
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Los microrrelatos cómicos y picarescos en la novela barroca: Céspedes y Meneses, Castillo Solórzano y Castelblanco by Christine Marguet

“…This article examines the presence of comical and/or picaresque micro-structures in spanish baroque novels with aristocratic protagonism –the novelistic equivalent of «courtship» short novels–. …”
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Retour à la page blanche après le choc du 11 Septembre by Yves Davo

“…Using Abel’s comics, our aim is thus to think over this aesthetics of the void and analyze its particular link with the act of creation. …”
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The Mining of Craft: An exploration of Minecraft as a Community of Inquiry by Miller Liam

“…Reading and Writing in any domain, whether it is law, rap songs, academic essays, superhero comics, or whatever, are not just ways of decoding print, they are also caught up with ways of doing things, thinking about things, valuing things, and interacting with other people – that is, they are caught up with different sorts of social practices. …”
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De charogne réanimée à séduisante détective : la résiliente humanité du zombie by Nicholas Dion

“…In this article, we examine the ways in which novel, comics and movie writers hesitate to fully dehumanize zombies. …”
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Historia e historización, ficción y metaficción en Los surcos del azar, de Paco Roca by Jacqueline Sabbah

“…From this counterpoint between the desire to testify and the claim of an assumed artifice, he offers a reflection on the contributions and specificities of memory, discourse and the literary genre of comics in the writing of History.…”
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Attualizzare Dante : prospettive di ricerca nei manuali di letteratura per la scuola italiana by Simone Marsi

“…The academic research on Dante Alighieri has recently focused its attention on the modernization of his works, analyzing, for example, the rewriting of Divine Comedy in pop culture (songs, comics, cinema, videogames, etc.). The aim of this article is to investigate the way in which Dante’s works are modernized in some popular Italian literature textbooks, to understand how his figure can be disseminated among generations of Italian students by a non-historical or non-chronological point of view.…”
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La imagen del gaucho argentino en los primeros films de dibujos animados estadounidenses by Ana Teresa  Fanchin

“…This contribution analyzes films produced by Disney, which top the list of comics displayed on celluloid. This particular source of cartoons, exhibited on the screen and that would reach wide dissemination, has to illustrate the representation of the gaucho of the Argentine pampas by the estadounidense vision, in instances that aspired to achieve its world hegemony. …”
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Nice Work de David Lodge : Un « Condition of England novel » des années 1980 ? by Armelle Parey

“…More than a mere transposition, Nice Work turns out to be an open rewriting of the Victorian novels quoted in epigraphs since the text, with its comical aspect and its auto-reflexive dimension, distances itself from realism. …”
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Graphic Nonviolence: Framing “Good Trouble” in John Lewis’ March by Johannes C. P. Schmid

“…In particular, it formulates an approach to investigate framing strategies that the work employs within the mediality of comics. Thus, the visual and material frames of the text are examined as techniques to facilitate political framing. …”
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Humoriste, journaliste et artiste engagé by Farida Souiah

“…First, this article explores the history of caricatures in Algeria in a direct link with the development of comics and press. It deals with the constraints that face caricaturists since the independence of Algeria until now. …”
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"Nightown", "Necropolis", "Jerusalem" : les figures de la ville dans Ulysses de James Joyce by Philippe Birgy

“…Leaving aside the questions of the town-like or maze-like structure of the text itself and the hieroglyphic tracery of the flâneur's path—for these aspects have already been amply documented by Joycean scholars—it concentrates on the communal dimension that underlies Joyce's writing and on the stylistic inscription of a democracy to come that reaches beyond nationalism and citizenship (the latter being comically presented as Bloom's celestial Jerusalem). …”
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Sacré Graal ! et le détournement cinématographique by Justine Breton

“…Medieval imagery is animated, shaken up or sometimes put at risk, in order to serve the numerous comical processes used in the movie. Following the same principle, medieval literary points of reference are mentioned to accompany the story and take part in the general shock of narrative and aesthetic codes inherent of Monty Python’s sense of humour.…”
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« Don’t Mention the War ! » : La vie culturelle à Dublin pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Alexandra Slaby

“…Nevertheless, a new perception of this thorny issue seems to be emerging thanks to a new musical which came out in 2004 caricaturing in a comical way an Ireland collaborating with the Nazis. …”
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"Zátopek" – komiksowa codzienność długodystansowca by Mariusz Guzek

“…The comics signed by scriptwriter Jan Novák and illustrator Jaromír 99 follow a particularly well-thought-out authorial strategy. …”
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“Consummate Too Too”: On the Logic of Iconotexts Satirizing the “Aesthetic Movement” by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…Finally, one intends to show the poetics at work in such iconotexts by studying those oft-recurring catchphrases that comically and yet creatively encapsulate the aesthetics and formula of life propounded by authors and artists of the Aesthetic Movement.…”
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Une nouvelle approche du Morte d’Arthur de Malory au XXe siècle : la réécriture musicale de Lerner et Loewe by Justine Breton

“…The legend of King Arthur, for example, is mostly known through its adaptation into comics, movies or TV series. However, it is necessary to take into account in its diffusion the vast and often neglected influence of the Broadway musical Camelot (1960), by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. …”
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Memórias fraturadas: passado, identidade e imaginação em Borges e Mutarelli by Pedro Galas Araújo

“…This paper discusses such issues through the dialogue between the stories “O outro” and “Funes, o memorioso”, by Jorge Luis Borges, and the comics narrative “A caixa de areia ou eu era dois em meu quintal” by Lourenço Mutarelli, including aspects such as identity construction and the use of imagination in that operation.…”
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Conceptual Operations in Multimodal Political Humor by Hadaegh Rezaei

“…The results show that although conceptual mappings of type metaphor, metonymy, or metaphtonymy are the most prominent Logical Mechanisms in humorous political co-text images, various conceptual operations help to convey a comical sense. These conceptualization strategies include schematization through different image schemas, framing through different categorizations, identification through profiling different aspects of the scene, and positioning through realizing different points of view. …”
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