The Networked Author: Looking at Contemporary Authorship Through Postdigital Comics by Giorgio Busi Rizzi

“…In doing so, it proposes an original framework to discuss how the digital has brought forward novel network dynamics of comics creation beyond the single author, arguing for the identification, within this networked authorship, of (a) renewed forms and practices of ‘collective authorship,’ and (b) new types of ‘distributed authorship.’ …”
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“Making Noise” with Comics: An Interview with Argentine Author, Artist, Singer, and Song Writer, Isol by Jennifer Nagtegaal

“…The following interview with Marisol Misenta, known professionally as Isol, discusses a number of ways in which the award-winning author, musician, and occasional comics artist from Argentina brings together music, singing, and narration through images in what she calls “una poción para soñar” (a concoction to dream about). …”
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Юмористический тон как маркер авторского взгляда в комедиях Надежды Птушкиной by Natalia Maliutina

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Les merveilles du scepticisme : René Descartes et les superhéros de comics by Chris Gavaler, Nathaniel Goldberg

“…These ideas are constantly emerging in science fiction, especially in superhero comics. Thus, through various comic books, such as Marvelman or Heroes Reborn, the authors illustrate that not only the Cartesian sceptical worries are displayed in the narratives, but they also expand them and dispelled the solution to scepticism provided by Descartes.…”
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Dessiner son terrain pour le ressentir by Anne-Adélaïde Lascaux, Antoine Rigaud

“…In contrast, this article revisits a research experiment using drawings in a geographical demonstration, conducted in association with Antoine, a researcher and a comics author, during my PhD. Together, we argue that graphic works are useful methodological tools for scientific demonstration. …”
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Falling Back in Love with Trans-Inclusive Feminism: Canadian Creative Artists Re-Story Death and Choose Transformation by Devon Harvey

“…Rooted in Canadian author Kai Cheng Thom’s reckoning with the shortcomings of trans-exclusionary feminist thought, and informed by Chinua Achebe’s conceptualization of re-storying, this article explores how <i>I Hope We Choose Love</i> and <i>Falling Back in Love with Being Human</i> by Kai Cheng Thom, <i>Death Threat</i> by Canadian creatives Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee, and comics from <i>Assigned Male</i> by trans activist and Canadian comic artist Sophie Labelle re-story “necessary” trans death to orient queer death spaces around a trans-for-trans (t4t) praxis of narrativization. …”
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L’evoluzione delle parodie dantesche disneyane e delle riedizioni dell’Inferno di Topolino : uno specchio dei tempi by Roberta Manetti

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L’Art de voler et L’Aile brisée, d’Antonio Altarriba et Kim, sont-ils des récits mémoriels historiques en bande dessinée ? by Isabelle Delorme

“…Historical graphic memoir is a new comic book genre that emerged after the publication of Art Spiegelman's Maus at the turn of the 1990s. …”
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La bande dessinée revendicative et mémorielle de Carlos Giménez by Pierre-Alain de Bois

“…The study will show how Carlos Giménez used this sequential art of comics to put into words and images painful memories related to the Spanish Civil War and its consequences, and how, over time, the author went from a writing of the denunciation to a writing of the memory, that it seems to want to transmit today to the future generations.…”
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De L’Histoire véritable au boulet de Jules Verne : une histoire science-fictionnelle des paradigmes astronomiques by Estelle Blanquet, Éric Picholle

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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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La parole de l’autre. La communication extra-terrestre dans la série « Valérian » de Christin et Mézières by Franck Thibault

“…Since Les Mauvais Rêves in 1968, and then the first comic book La Cité des eaux mouvantes in 1970, the “Valérian agent spatio-temporel” comic series by Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin has developped along its 23 issues into a science fiction classic, and even, according to Stan Barets, “a classic of comics and a masterpiece of science fiction”. …”
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Des guerres et des dictatures à travers les vignettes by Silvina Campo

“…The article proposes an analysis of comic strips that revolve around the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, having as authors those who had to confront those conflicts in childhood.…”
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Abolir el binarismo. Femimutancia y la historieta argentina transfeminista by Laura Caraballo

“…Transfeminist struggles in Argentina and Latin America within the context of their sociopolitical reality, have a correlation with visual narratives. Comics don’t only represent what is at stake in thought and activism, but also redefine themselves, finding their own anti-hegemonic logics of operation. …”
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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

“…Many comic book authors have chosen to tell the story of individual destinies by interweaving them into a collective history, that of Spain under Franco's regime. …”
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Черномырдинки и техника комического у Михаила Зощенко by Anna Weigl

“…Chernomyrdin and the speech of Mikhail Zoshchenko’s heroes, deliberately constructed by the author in the course of the creative process, have much in common in their techniques of the comic and are at times identical. …”
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Historia y memorias de la posguerra. Paracuellos y el recuerdo del Auxilio Social by Ángela Cenarro, Elena Masarah

“…In its most emblematic institution, the children’s homes, the children of the Republicans and the victims of war, reprisals or exile, as well as those of families devastated by destitution in the post-war, should become «active servants of a fair Spain». The comic Paracuellos, by Carlos Giménez, is a representation of the author’s experiences in these homes that has served to convey the memories of those who were children of the Auxilio Social and denounce the abuses committed against them. …”
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Интерсемиотический и прагмасемантический анализ цикла мемов „Дворец для Путина” by Żanna Sładkiewicz

“… The article is devoted to the analysis of the pragmatics and semiotics in the productive comic genre of digital communication – the political meme. …”
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« Caminè, caminè » : l’écriture du mouvement dans L’Anconitana d’Angelo Beolco, dit Ruzante by Françoise Decroisette

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Comedy’s Double Negation of Meaning in Post-war European Theater by Anna Street

“…By replacing significance with mere surface sounds, language emerges from these plays as a carrier of unexpected—and inescapable—meaning. Tracing a series of comic reversal techniques common to both Adamov and Beckett, famously grouped together under the moniker Theater of the Absurd, the author demonstrates how the attempt to deprive words of sense-making is repetitiously usurped by other sensory elements which doggedly invest the striving for senselessness with profound ambiguity, against all odds.…”
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