‘Laugh a defiance, Laugh in hope’: Suffrage Comedy and Humour as Political Protest by Eleanor Stewart

“…Within the ritualized framework of the comic genre, the suffrage dramatists use self-derision to provoke empathy and encourage derisory laughter towards their detractors. …”
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The Institutionalization of Political Humor as a Form of Reflection by S. S. Melnikov

“…In the course of research we found that comic interpretation of politics became feasible due to the legislative fixation of individual rights as a part of modern political culture. …”
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Le « style jeune » : les discours sur les modes de la jeunesse dans les hebdomadaires des années 50 by Sixtine Audebert

“…Due to the americanisation of the French society, the journalists switch from the comic tradition of the chansonniers, imbued with fusty contempt for the young people, to the moral panic register, contributing to romanticize the generation gap.…”
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Социальная и политическая сатира в романе В. Аксенова „Остров Крым” by Antoni Murawski

“…The author of this article presents a variety of aspects concerning the meaning of comic elements that were used by the writer to show the dissonance between reality and the idealistic as well as subjective perception of a difficult political and social environment.…”
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Influence of soil type on bacterial growth and tolerance to experimentally added human antibiotics by Laura Rodríguez-González, Montserrat Díaz-Raviña, Beatriz Sevilla-Morán, Elena García-Campos, Juan José Villaverde, Manuel Arias-Estévez, David Fernández-Calviño, Vanesa Santás-Miguel

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Prozaiczna codzienność superbohaterów, czyli analiza komiksowej serii Karla Ferdona by Justyna Czaja

“…The article discusses a parody comic series by Chilean cartoonist Karlo Ferdon which depicts American superheroes in prosaic day-to-day situations. …”
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Les mots étrangers, les mots de l’étranger by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…The essay assesses the linguistic situation of the exile, a potentially comic figure, with intimations of tragedy (the exclusion of the foreign speaker as linguistic pharmakos), but also of liberation (the standard language is most alive when minorised by foreign words). …”
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La bande dessinée pour construire une mémoire des « mille jours » de l’Unité populaire au Chili by Elsa Marsande

“…The richness of the comic book format makes it possible to portray Chile from 1971 to 1973, from the implementation to the failure of the project led by Salvador Allende. …”
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Johannes Climacus e o pensador subjetivo existente. A categoria trágico-cômica da linguagem indireta by Ana Alice Matiello Coelho

“…Since that double reflection revisits the concepts of the tragic and the comic, of seriousness and jest, albeit from a different perspective, we can understand the importance of such communication for indirect language, whose objective is to communicate an absolute contradiction.…”
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Vers une expérience sensorielle augmentée ? by Silvia Masi

“…What happens when the already fully auralised universe of the comic strip experiences a concrete opening to the audible? …”
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Lucille Ball, the Queen of Show Business versus Lucy Ricardo, the Failed Actress by Aurélie Blot

“…Most American people, all generations taken into account, remember Lucille Ball as a great comic figure of the Fifties. Nonetheless, just a few people remember her as one of the most powerful women of her time. …”
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« La langue bien pendue ». Pour une nouvelle traduction de Mafalda by Claire Latxague

“…This paper presents some thoughts about traces of historical context and manifestations of political compromise in this classic comic strip, created by Quino and initially published in the Argentinian press between 1964 and 1973. …”
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Рунглийский язык и автоответчик: приемы комического в рассказах Юрия Дружникова by Galina Niefagina

“…allows one to draw a conclusion that the basic comic means are: at a composition level – the story construction (by using the joke principle), presenting a situation as an actual event and its addition or specification at the level of style – metaphor or phraseological unit, specification, a concrete definition of citations, popular expressions, and at the language level – a mixture of different languages – Runglish.…”
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Ti-Girl Power: American Utopianism in the Queer Superhero Text by Matt Yockey

“…As a Chicano and fan of Silver Age superhero comic books himself, Henandez also realizes this ethos for himself in the very creation of this work.…”
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Jeca Tatu, un héros brésilien. Genèse, évolution et déplacements du personnage du caipira by Teresa Cristina Duarte-Simões

“…The comic figure of the paulista pesant appeared for the first time in the scene in the Martins Pena’s Comédias, in the middle of the 19th century. …”
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Zwyczajni niezwyczajni. Codzienność superbohaterów w komiksach spod znaku Ultimate Marvel by Michał Wolski

“…Depictions of food consumption in comic books are quite numerous but they rarely stick in the minds of readers, especially when they serve as the background for the unfolding story. …”
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Gone With the Covid – Scarlet in Quarantine: An Interview with Sarah Combs by Sarah Combs, Emmeline Gros

“…As a family Covid-19 quarantine project, Combs recently created a short film, Gone With the Covid, a spoof of the classic film, Gone With the Wind. Beyond laughter and comic relief, is parody also a conduit of critique, or are certain topics—racism, the legacy of slavery, racial inequalities in epidemics like Covid-19—too serious issues to be parodied? …”
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Les Quotas by Marie-Laure Schultze, Sujarei Tali

“…In this universe, the choice of whom you have sexual relationships with, how and at which rate doesn’t belong to you anymore.This narrative is presented in three different forms: a comic, an audio recording and a novel, three ways (graphic, audio and textual) as three attempts to thwart Kimée and Djoa’s gender and sexuality—the characters, and their universe. …”
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« But why is all this music? » : jeu du texte et guerre des sexes dans The Beggar’s Opera by Alexandra Poulain

“…The two ends offer two opposite outcomes for the war between the sexes which structures the plot: while the female taste for fixity triumphs in the original "tragic" end, the male propension for play has the final word in the Player’s comic version.…”
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