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Redire, refigurer: Traces et cicatrices dans Hunors
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Throughout a career that covers a variety of narrative forms, Chantal Montellier's focus remains the same. Many of her albums bear the marks of personal suffering from social violence inflicted upon the poor, the weak and ...
Imperialism in Asterix
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
The Asterix books, having been written over a long period of time, have reflected a number of contemporary concerns which were relevant at the time of composition - some of which are still relevant today. One of these ...
Horreur des villes maudites dans l'oeuvre de H. P. Lovecraft
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft is forever weaving the same spider-web, in which both his hero and his readers invariably get caught. The real curse of his ancient cities (R'lyeh, Innsmouth, Arkham, Marblehead, Kingsport, Dunwich ...
Mickey, Le Journal de Mickey and the Birth of the Popular BD
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)
The unprecedented success of Paul Winckler's Journal de Mickey, launched in 1934, was to change the face of what we now see as the bande dessinée industry. This paper will suggest that the success was dependent not only ...
Breaking the Frame: Anarchist Comics and Visual Culture
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
The emergence of the comics medium as part of modern visual culture has posed several questions for anarchists engaged with the arts: to what extent can comics be regarded as "popular" culture in the substantive sense that ...
Le Portrait d'Edmond Baudoin: Réflexions sur l'efficacité d'une oeuvre à saisir la vie
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Bande dessinée et trifonctionnalité
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
The "théorie trifonctionnelle" of Georges Dumézil identified the foundations of the structures of groups of characters in ancient Indo-European literature. This article starts from an intuition by Joël Grisward, one of ...
The Dragon Lady's Well Favored Children: The Transition from Corporatist to Individualist in Comic Strips of 1930s
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
In the 1930s the heroes of American comic strips underwent a significant transformation. Beginning as clowns or as personifications of the values of social elites, comic strip heroes were after 1929 increasingly alienated ...
Gotlib's Progress
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
This article traces the evolution of the French bande dessinée artist Marcel Gotlib (b. 1934). It draws upon strips from throughout his career, as well as upon an interview he gave me. As we shall see, Gotlib humorously ...
Autobiographie et bandes dessinées : Problèmes, enjeux, exemples
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
This reflection on the autobiographical dimension of contemporary "bande dessinée" will examine a certain number of general questions, including: Does the present tendency to autobiography in "bande dessinée" constitute ...