Słowo - obraz - pamięć w labiryntach komiksu by Grażyna Gajewska

“…In the present article these comic books or graphic novels are interpreted as different types of maze: the Cretean maze, mystery-maze and maze-rhizome.…”
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« Bois ! ». La rencontre fatale entre Salammbô et Mâtho dans les transpositions iconiques du roman by Bruna Donatelli

“…Among the numerous illustrated editions and comic strip adaptations of the novel, this paper examines the iconic tranpositions by Rochegrosse, Bussière, Blaine, Lagneau and Druillet, who all display profound literary perceptiveness and have successfully enhanced the episode in question, establishing with the text an empathic relationship and a dialogue which opens up new and original interpretations.…”
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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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Neil Gaiman’s Use of Antiquity in Television Series: American Gods and Calliope by Elżbieta Olechowska, Marta Pszczolińska

“… American Gods (Starz 2017–2021) and The Sandman (Netflix 2022– ), two highly watchable audiovisual series are adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s popular novel (2001) and of his earlier comic book series (1989–1996). …”
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Mélancolie spartiate. 300 ou la réactivation du mythe de Léonidas pour mobiliser la société contre le déclin de l’Occident by Vivien Barrière, Jean Hedin

“…The movie was inspired by a graphic novel by Frank Miller, which presented a distorted vision of Sparta as the mother of American democracy and a model for countering expansionist and liberticidal projects from the Middle East. …”
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The Double Death of Humanity in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Stephen Joyce

“…However, the bleak pessimism of the narrative world and the disturbing suggestion that humanity has been wiped out not just as a species but as a moral quality is offset by McCarthy’s prose style, which encourages readers to reject nihilistic perspectives and accept the unlikely optimism that concludes the novel.…”
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Thrown to the (Were)Wolves: Sisterhood, Vengeance, and Liberal Feminism in Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle’s <i>Squad</i> by Jessica Caravaggio

“…In Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle’s graphic novel <i>Squad</i>, protagonist Becca and her new friends at Piedmont High are not human adolescents but a pack of werewolves who must kill to stay alive and select teenage boys—“the WORST ones” (70)—as their meal of choice. …”
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(Nie)zwyczajna kremlowska codzienność - Fabien Nury, Thierry Robin: "Śmierć Stalina. Prawdziwa historia... radziecka" by Marcin Kowalczyk

“…Marked by dread and uncertainty, the everyday reality in the Kremlin during Joseph Stalin’s era is one such case evocatively presented in Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin’s graphic novel The Death of Stalin: A True Soviet Story. The article demonstrates how history can be artistically reworked through the comic medium. …”
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With Collies Graven on His Heart: The Canine Projections of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934) by Peter Merchant

“…Anstey’ as his nom de plume, Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934) scored a striking success with his début novel Vice Versâ (1882). On a necessarily smaller scale, he then repeated the feat months later with his short story ‘The Black Poodle’. …”
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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

“…This process entails a collision between ancient narrative traditions and a novel media landscape characterized by the intersection of liberty, futurism, theatrical performances, and literary tradition. …”
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The Old Woman’s Farcical Rejuvenation in The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore (1897) by Somi Ahn

“…The second part will scrutinize how Eccles’s comedic novel itself responds to the late Victorian female aging question. …”
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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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The Spartan King Leonidas I: History and modern times by E.A. Tchiglintsev, N.A. Shadrina

“…In the second half of the 20th century and in the first decade of the 21st century, the image of the King Leonidas I in art to greater extend turns to the purposes of entertainment (Valerio Manfredi's novel, Rudolph Mate's movie, and especially the graphic novel by Frank Miller and the cinematographic movie by Zack Snyder titled “300” adapted from it). …”
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Codzienność rozszczelniona. O "Codziennej walce" Manu Larceneta by Damian Kaja

“…The interpretation of Larcenet’s graphic novel was carried out based on three premises: (1) the everyday settles into fiction thanks to mimesis; (2) contact with everyday life may lead to an epiphanic revelation of a spiritual truth (drawing on Jolanta Brach-Czaina’s concept described in her philosophical essay Szczeliny istnienia [Cracks in Existence], this phenomenon can be called the “unsealing” of everyday life); (3) literary depictions of human daily existence are where literature and sociology intersect, as a result of which literary works (or, comics in this case) help reveal the structures of everyday life.…”
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