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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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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Getting ready for the Second World War. Fascist Propaganda and Ideology in L’Avventuroso (1938–40) by Manuela Di Franco

“…Through content analysis of Italian-made comics and short novels, combined with socio-historical contextualisation, the article explores the extent to which Fascist rhetoric permeated the children’s press. …”
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La guerre et le canon by Michel Matly

“…It shows collective perceptions that are different according to countries and evolve over time, comparable to those identified by the conflict’s memory specialists using other sources such as political speeches, novels or films. This validates comics as pertinent sources for historians or sociologists, but also put our own representation of the war into perspective, as not more than the look of “here and today”. …”
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La nature et les ruines : anciennes présences humaines dans le récit climatique de science‑fiction by Rémi Auvertin

“…Conversely, they affirm the need to adapt to new environmental conditions and to build new ways of life.Our reflection, influenced by archaeology, focuses on two complementary media, the novel and the comic strip, whose comparison highlights the stability of the motif but also the tension between realism and universalism.…”
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Holy Terror!: Islamophobia and Intermediality in Frank Miller’s Graphic Novel by Frank Mehring

“…The graphic artist Frank Miller represents an innovative force in the field of graphic novels who pushes the medium into new territories. …”
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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

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Modos subordinados de acceso a los clásicos en Los príncipes valientes de Javier Pérez Andújar by Jessica Cáliz Montes

“…To illustrate the subtle ways in which the Classics were approached, Javier Pérez Andújar’s first novel, between biographic essay and autofiction novel, revolves around two main ideas: common experiences of Spanish children of the seventies and the author’s discovery of his literary calling. …”
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Historia e historización, ficción y metaficción en Los surcos del azar, de Paco Roca by Jacqueline Sabbah

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Satirical Frame of Mind: Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and the Literary Engagement with 9/11 by Katherina Dodou

“…Drawing on recent satire theory that views the satirical mode as unruly, various, and open-ended, I suggest that a closer look to the mixed intentions of this novel presents an opportunity to explore the dynamic between denunciation and comic relief in literary satire on 9/11 and opens the way for a more complex understanding of the operation and affordances of literary 9/11 satire.…”
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Nice Work de David Lodge : Un « Condition of England novel » des années 1980 ? by Armelle Parey

“…In Nice Work, David Lodge appropriates the model of the « condition-of-England novel » which he transposes into the 1980s. 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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DEIXIS FOUND IN KAMIO YOUKO’S HANA YORI DANGO IN ENGLISH VERSION by Mariska Febrianti

“…One of language forms in our environment are comics. It is the popular literary works that teenager read besides novel and short story. …”
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‘I should like to see a woman smoking while she was nursing her baby’: The New Woman, Crossdressing, and Humour in Horace William Bleackley’s Une Culotte (1894) by Mariam Zarif

“…First I suggest that humour is generated in the novel by the New Woman protagonist’s comic attacks of the rigid construction of gender differences. …”
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Fossils and Theories of Evolution in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet by Anthony Zielonka

“…This paper proposes a close textual analysis of Chapter III of the masterpiece of comic and satirical fiction that is Gustave Flaubert’s last novel, Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881). …”
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Социальная и политическая сатира в романе В. Аксенова „Остров Крым” by Antoni Murawski

“…This article is devoted to analyzing the use of satire and parody in Vasily Aksyonov’s novel The Island of Crimea (1979). 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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Bouvard et Pécuchet et le savoir médical by Norioki Sugaya

“…This substantial file, which contains reading notes taken by the novelist for the writing of the medical chapter, allows us to understand to what extent the “comic of ideas”, characteristic of the encyclopedic novel, is the result of an intensive work on knowledge. …”
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L’Humpur en BD : de fabuleuses frontières by Florence Plet-Nicolas

“…In 2013, Soleil productions, specialized in fantasy comics, published Les Fables de l’Humpur by Pierre Bordage (scripter) and Olivier Roman (cartoonist), adapted from Bordage’s novel (1999). …”
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Metaleptic Variations by Dominique Pernot

“…Gabriel Josipovici’s latest fiction is varied, ranging from parody, light comic fiction, in Only Joking and Making Mistakes, to more serious, ontological and personal concerns. …”
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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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