Up from the Depths: The Cultural Appropriation of Godzilla in 1970s American Animation and Comics by C. Scott Maravilla

“…In this case, Marvel and Hanna-Barbera removed the character from its origin, where it emerged as a consequence of the atomic bomb. Gojira is first a scourge of Japan and later its savior against invasion from cosmic forces and nefarious <i>kaiju</i>. …”
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Hollywood adaptations of comic books in a post-9/11 context: the economic and cultural factors by Nathalie Dupont

“…With the release of Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) and then Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977), blockbusters have dominated Hollywood’s way of doing business while they have confirmed the importance of the young audience. The paper will first show that adapting comic books is ideal for the film industry as comic books perfectly fit the blockbusters’ formula. …”
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Newspaper cartoons as a reflection of political change during the first democratic elections in South Africa by Cornelius van Heerden

“… The first Southern African cartoonists were probably the Stone Age Bushman whose drawings adorn rock faces in this part of the continent. …”
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Exploring the efficacy of writing comics as a tool for enhancing EFL writing skills of undergraduate Ecuadorian polytechnic students by Felix Estrella

“…Findings – From the descriptive and T-test results and the interview answers, it is concluded that students have a favorable view of the effectiveness of using comics to improve their writing skills. They also expressed their engagement and motivation to work with comics. …”
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Mettre l’intime en bande dessinée. Un dialogue avec Léna Merhej et Noémie Honein by Michela De Giacometti, Laura Odasso

“…Originally born as a publishing platform to support works from this first group of artists, the magazine soon transformed into a collective and broadened its horizons to include comics made by artists from the Arab world and beyond. …”
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L'image de la Guerre civile espagnole dans la bande dessinée entre 1936 et 1975-I by Michel Matly

“…This paper is the first of two that present a quick overview of the representation of Spanish Civil War in comics from the beginning of the conflict in 1936 up to Franco's death in 1975. …”
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L'image de la Guerre civile espagnole dans la bande dessinée entre 1936 et 1975-II by Michel Matly

“…Meanwhile the first part was investigating Spanish comics during wartime, the present one deal with other countries' comics in the same period, as well as Spanish and foreign comics during the following years of the Francoist dictatorship. …”
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Sutures génériques et fêlures intérieures chez Charles Burns by Jean-Paul Gabilliet

“…He stitches together genres, motifs, and styles at a literally sub-liminal level with a dual creative agenda. First he achieves the miscegenation of two major visual styles of comic art, US 1950s-style noir brush inking and Franco-Belgian Hergé-style clear line. …”
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La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme by Viviane Alary

“…This article sheds light on the work of memory that Spanish comics have been undertaking since the 1970s through four graphic works placed in the context of their first publication (the Paracuellos series, 1977; El artefacto perverso, 1996; Cuerda de presas, 2005; Los surcos del azar, 2013). …”
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Ridiculus sum : le ridicule dans Madame Bovary by Juliette Azoulai

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Sous le règne de la terreur. La répression franquiste dans la bande dessinée espagnole. Le cas de Pablo Uriel et de Miguel Núñez by Benoît Mitaine

“…Mil vidas más (2010) by Miguel Núñez, Pepe Gálvez and Alfonso López and Un médico novato (2014) by Sento Are among the most remarkable comic strips on the Spanish Civil War and Francoism. …”
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Entre memoria y política: las historietas de Felipe Hernández Cava sobre la España del siglo xx (1973-1996) by Eduardo Hernández Cano

“…The comic works of Felipe Hernández Cava developed during the first decades of the new Spanish democracy constitutes one of the most coherent intellectual interventions on the role of memory in society and its political function. …”
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L’agonie de Raimundo, fils d’Unamuno, et le sentiment comique de la vie by Yves Roullière

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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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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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Humoriste, journaliste et artiste engagé by Farida Souiah

“…It also analyzes the commitment of those who draw political cartoons in a non-democratic context. First, this article explores the history of caricatures in Algeria in a direct link with the development of comics and press. …”
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Les réseaux d’autrices de la bande dessinée en France by Marys Renné Hertiman

“…This paper focuses on women's networks in the French comics industry, their specificities and their issues. …”
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The Old Woman’s Farcical Rejuvenation in The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore (1897) by Somi Ahn

“…The female rejuvenation plot bridges the gap between the New Woman and the Old Woman in a way that allows the formulation of New Woman ideals. The first part of my article will discuss Eccles’s and other New Woman writers’ critical essays on the female life course. …”
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CULTURE SPECIFIC ITEMS TRANSLATION STRATEGY IN ONE PIECE: ROMANCE DAWN by Andrean Susanto

“… This study investigates the translation strategy on culture specific items existed in One Piece: Romance Dawn.This study has two objectives. The first objective was to find out the CSIs in One Piece: Romance Dawn. …”
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