... Classical Novels, ¹ have been retold across diverse media formats including, but not limited to, comics, television, film, and digital media. Corresponding author: College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University, No. 422, Siming South Road, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China. E-mail...

..., and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Corresponding author: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Predicated upon a corpus of 4,200 films, this article documents, analyses, and interprets the international film industry’s rhetorical disavowal of the comic book medium...

...J Laurence Cohen Tracing the distinct Christological emphases in three depictions of Dr Manhattan reveals how pop culture emerges from and contributes to discourse about race and theology and underscores how superhero comics and their adaptations can critique white supremacy or reinscribe white...

..., and scientific content related to the issues above was considered when building the comic. A first draft was further developed by sequential iterative cycles, with the goal of focusing the message and selecting key concepts that came out most frequently in the interviews (liver metabolism, the consequences...

[email protected] ; [email protected] Graphical Abstract Figure. The evaluation of an activity based on knowledge elaboration and the use of comics in microbiology education suggests its effectiveness in engaging students...

...Stephanie Burt Some essays amount to straightforward, edifying appreciations for single characters. Barbara Gordon (Operator or Oracle), from the Batman comics, who uses a wheelchair, gets two; Clint Barton (Hawkeye) of Marvel’s Avengers, often represented as deaf or hard of hearing, gets three...

...Paola Scavone; Valentina Carrasco; Ana Umpiérrez; María Morel; Daniela Arredondo; Vanesa Amarelle Comics present a story sequentially by using text and images, their popularity mainly being due to their high visual literacy and small amount of text (Trnová, Trna and Vacek 2013 ). They succeed...

...Chiao-I Tseng; John A Bateman A considerable body of previous research has employed semiotic and linguistic categories to establish schemes for the description of the formal and rhetorical devices deployed in comics and graphic novels (Varnum and Gibbons; Saraceni; Groensteen; Cohn; Baetens; Cohn...

...Carly Melissa Tribull science communication comics web comics outreach education Comics typically bring to mind images of super heroes of questionable anatomy in spandex battling villains that, while diverse, all seem to share a hatred for American ideals of democracy. However...

... adaptation represent but breaking boundaries, breaching the threshold Genette says is ‘meant to be crossed’ (“Palimpsests” 410)? If paratext can be seen as enabling transmedia discourse or adding to a source’s translatability, the medium of comics also sheds light on how this process takes place...

... own transnationality to the narrative and paratextual discourses of her film. Satrapi’s work sits at the crossroads of two lacunae formed by trends in studies of comics-to-film adaptations: on the one hand, the dominance of the superhero genre (in criticism as at the box office); on the other...

... follows Henry Jenkins’ definitions and examines how adaptation is part of convergence culture and essentially an instance of transmedia storytelling. Focusing particularly on filmic adaptations of superhero comics, it intends to demonstrate how media convergence may actually trigger the integration...

.... The contribution ends by seeking to demonstrate that children's contributions to cultural dialogues about the meaning of illness and patienthood can be recovered through listening to patient materials. patient information children cancer chemotherapy welfare comics The treatments prescribed for children...

... Stöckl Hartmut typopictoriality body physicality verticality comics photography space container metaphors Inside Out Hall Edward T proxemics Our Cancer Year Carney Sean Chaney Michael A drawing style epilepsy Epileptic materiality Miodrag Hannah pictorial runes Wolk Douglas digital...

... content novel religious movements religious vocabulary content and imagery ritual visual composition anime separate from manga comics denominations entertainment manga kissaten marketing reception characters Death Note directors Neon Genesis Evangelion Shin seiki ebuangerion onomatopoeia...

...C. C. Beck was one of the most influential artists working in comics in the U. S. in the 1940s and 1950s. As the co-creator of Captain Marvel, he and his assistants worked on one of the best-selling comic book characters of the era. Later in his career, he also developed a reputation as a comics...

...Popular culture can both entertain and contribute to social change. Cartoons and comics constitute a pop-cultural tool of visual communication that is gaining in popularity and use. The modern daily newspaper strip and political cartoon participates in what is, in fact, an ancient art form and mode...

...This chapter discusses Grant Morrison’s participation in the 1990s in the resurgence of the superhero comics. Morrison was said to have pioneered the “widescreen” approach, which featured high-concept ideas and action on a grand scale. This chapter adds that Morrison further revived the superhero...

...This chapter explores the advent of photography and work of American cartoonist Arthur Burdett Frost, who was one of the first to develop a style based on the expressive possibilities offered by the new photographic process. At the moment that comics were preparing to enter into a new era...

... response to the popular production of the time. What makes the series so special in the whole tradition of comic art is, above all, its ambition to put beauty (in the Hogarthian sense) on center stage. McCay Winsor New York Herald periodical Barnard Frederick Doré Gustave Frost Arthur Burdett Hogarth...