HUMOR ANALYSIS IN ASTERIX AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES COMIC by Miftahush Shalihah

“…Asterix at the Olympic Games is one of comic which contains humor. The purpose of this paper is to determine how linguistic context and non-linguistic context produce humor in the comic Asterix at the Olympic Games. …”
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La guerre et le canon by Michel Matly

“…The growing interest of researchers for the topic goes hand in hand with the risk that the process of selection and ranking previous to the canonization of respectable but too consensual comics may reduce the field of research and limit the depth, accuracy and universality of the reflection.…”
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Les Technopères : la carte informatique, un chemin initiatique by Eric Villagordo

“…Inspired by a cyberpunk background, the story can be read, on the one hand, as a parabola of computer science as a new system of possible, a new geography of adventure and on the other hand, as a totalitarian system of control. …”
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Nicolas Garnier, Dynamiques du récit comique bref : le Roman de Renart et les fabliaux by Nicolas Garnier

“…The purpose of this thesis is to compare the Roman de Renart with the fabliaux, which are often brought together by critics, particularly because of their comical nature. While the common themes of these texts have often been described, no study has ever really analyzed the divergences that occurred in these themes, especially in the way they are used in two genres whose organization is very different, since we have a serial narrative on one hand, and independent stories on the other hand. …”
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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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Historia e historización, ficción y metaficción en Los surcos del azar, de Paco Roca by Jacqueline Sabbah

“…This article analyzes, on the one hand, the graphic and narrative processes by which Los surcos del azar, by Paco Roca, sees itself legitimized as a true story and faithful to history and, on the other hand, the techniques which designate it, a contrario, like an artifact and a fictional rewriting. …”
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Słowo - obraz - pamięć w labiryntach komiksu by Grażyna Gajewska

“…The comic book is a product of mass culture. It got deeply rooted in American and Western European popular culture in the 1970s. …”
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La bande chantée : tradition orale et croyances pédagogiques dans le Corriere dei Piccoli by Lorenzo Di Paola, Eva Van de Wiele

“…However, the remarkable Corrierino comic format not only educated children but also proposed a more consumerist lifestyle, which, on the one hand, tended to commodify children and, on the other hand (from a media education perspective ante litteram), provided useful tools to understand and navigate the media landscape of the time.…”
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Thomas More et l’utilisation du paradoxe comme discours de la méthode by Isabelle Bore

“…In this perspective, our first part will be devoted to Thomas More’s paradoxical discourse which will give us the opportunity to highlight its apparent contradictions, i.e. on the one hand an apology for the truth and on the other hand a rhetoric of artifice, fiction and lying. …”
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Neil Gaiman’s Use of Antiquity in Television Series: American Gods and Calliope by Elżbieta Olechowska, Marta Pszczolińska

“…The Sand­man, on the other hand, in its television version, and specifically, in its first season finale episode Calliope, under discussion here, is much less graphic in the scenes of sexual abuse leaving the more drastic images to the imagination of the viewers but at the same time achieving an even more expressive empathy toward the suffering victim and a severe condemnation of the committed outrage. …”
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Past Times and Our Times: Reading Our Mutual Friend by David Paroissien

“…Reading flourishes variously and vigorously, a human activity that extends far beyond lines of type as rivers, corpses, fires, clothes, blackboards, wills, hand-delivered notes, ornaments and furnishings are all read. …”
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