Mark McKinney
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604730043
- eISBN:
- 9781604737615
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604730043.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This book examines the importance of history and politics to French-language comics, how French-language cartoonists have engaged with history and politics in recent years, and the artistic ...
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This book examines the importance of history and politics to French-language comics, how French-language cartoonists have engaged with history and politics in recent years, and the artistic opportunities that these cartoonists have taken up to do so. It considers France’s politicized attempts to control the medium and the place of history and politics in French-language comics criticism and theory. It looks at the comics tradition, including comic books considered to be classics, early periodicals, and cartoonists. It also analyzes more recent works by cartoonists from France and Belgium, such as Blutch, Jean-Christophe Menu, Benoît Peeters, and François Schuiten. In addition, the book explores how colonialism and imperialism in Belgium (in the Congo), France (in Algeria and the Pacific), and the United States (in Vietnam) have been represented in comics. Finally, it presents the perspective of French cartoonist Baru regarding comics, la bande dessinée (French comic book), social class, immigration, and national identity.Less
This book examines the importance of history and politics to French-language comics, how French-language cartoonists have engaged with history and politics in recent years, and the artistic opportunities that these cartoonists have taken up to do so. It considers France’s politicized attempts to control the medium and the place of history and politics in French-language comics criticism and theory. It looks at the comics tradition, including comic books considered to be classics, early periodicals, and cartoonists. It also analyzes more recent works by cartoonists from France and Belgium, such as Blutch, Jean-Christophe Menu, Benoît Peeters, and François Schuiten. In addition, the book explores how colonialism and imperialism in Belgium (in the Congo), France (in Algeria and the Pacific), and the United States (in Vietnam) have been represented in comics. Finally, it presents the perspective of French cartoonist Baru regarding comics, la bande dessinée (French comic book), social class, immigration, and national identity.
Mark McKinney (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604730043
- eISBN:
- 9781604737615
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604730043.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
In Belgium, France, Switzerland, and other French-speaking countries, many well-known comics artists have focused their attention on historical and political events. In works ranging from comic books ...
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In Belgium, France, Switzerland, and other French-speaking countries, many well-known comics artists have focused their attention on historical and political events. In works ranging from comic books and graphic novels to newspaper strips, cartoonists have addressed such controversial topics as French and Belgian collaboration and resistance during World War II, European colonialism and U.S. imperialism, anti-Semitism in France, the integration of African immigrant groups in Europe, and the green and feminist movements. This book includes chapters that address comics from a variety of viewpoints. The explorations range from discussion of such canonical works as Hergé’s Tintin series to such contemporary expressions as Baru’s Road to America (2002), about the Algerian War. Included are close readings of specific comics series and graphic novels, such as an examination of Cosey’s Saigon Hanoi, about remembering the Vietnam War. Other writers use theoretical lenses as a means of critiquing a broad range of comics, such as a reading of today’s comics field, and an analysis of bandes dessinées (French comic books) in New Caledonia during the 1990s. The book establishes the French-language comics tradition as one rich with representations of history and politics.Less
In Belgium, France, Switzerland, and other French-speaking countries, many well-known comics artists have focused their attention on historical and political events. In works ranging from comic books and graphic novels to newspaper strips, cartoonists have addressed such controversial topics as French and Belgian collaboration and resistance during World War II, European colonialism and U.S. imperialism, anti-Semitism in France, the integration of African immigrant groups in Europe, and the green and feminist movements. This book includes chapters that address comics from a variety of viewpoints. The explorations range from discussion of such canonical works as Hergé’s Tintin series to such contemporary expressions as Baru’s Road to America (2002), about the Algerian War. Included are close readings of specific comics series and graphic novels, such as an examination of Cosey’s Saigon Hanoi, about remembering the Vietnam War. Other writers use theoretical lenses as a means of critiquing a broad range of comics, such as a reading of today’s comics field, and an analysis of bandes dessinées (French comic books) in New Caledonia during the 1990s. The book establishes the French-language comics tradition as one rich with representations of history and politics.
Martha B. KuhlMan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604734423
- eISBN:
- 9781621032236
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604734423.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter examines Chris Ware’s comics from a perspective informed by French comics, with emphasis on an experimental collective known as Oubapo. It shows how, for both Ware and Oubapo, the ...
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This chapter examines Chris Ware’s comics from a perspective informed by French comics, with emphasis on an experimental collective known as Oubapo. It shows how, for both Ware and Oubapo, the concept of the workshop or factory becomes a key trope as they self-consciously create an avant-garde form of comics that embraces experimentation in the medium and about the medium. To demonstrate how this formal experimentation offers another point of entry into the labyrinth of Ware’s graphic narratives, the chapter looks at parallels between his work in The ACME Novelty Library series, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, and Oubapo works. It also considers how the works of Ware and a number of French artists share an ironic edge and specifically critique mass-manufactured comics and consumerism.Less
This chapter examines Chris Ware’s comics from a perspective informed by French comics, with emphasis on an experimental collective known as Oubapo. It shows how, for both Ware and Oubapo, the concept of the workshop or factory becomes a key trope as they self-consciously create an avant-garde form of comics that embraces experimentation in the medium and about the medium. To demonstrate how this formal experimentation offers another point of entry into the labyrinth of Ware’s graphic narratives, the chapter looks at parallels between his work in The ACME Novelty Library series, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, and Oubapo works. It also considers how the works of Ware and a number of French artists share an ironic edge and specifically critique mass-manufactured comics and consumerism.
Pascal LefÈvre
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604730043
- eISBN:
- 9781604737615
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604730043.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter examines French-language comics published in Belgium and how its representations of the Congo, one of the Belgian colonies, evolved. It begins with an overview of the history of colonial ...
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This chapter examines French-language comics published in Belgium and how its representations of the Congo, one of the Belgian colonies, evolved. It begins with an overview of the history of colonial Belgium, from early colonization until World War II. It then looks at the growth of Belgian comics production after the liberation of Belgium by the Allied forces, the evolution in Belgian comics depicting Africa and Africans, and Belgian comics’ explicit representations of violence by the end of the 1970s. It also analyzes Le nègre blanc, a classic, French-language Belgian comics series for children drawn by Joseph Gillain (Jijé, 1914–1980), and its reference to religion or superstition.Less
This chapter examines French-language comics published in Belgium and how its representations of the Congo, one of the Belgian colonies, evolved. It begins with an overview of the history of colonial Belgium, from early colonization until World War II. It then looks at the growth of Belgian comics production after the liberation of Belgium by the Allied forces, the evolution in Belgian comics depicting Africa and Africans, and Belgian comics’ explicit representations of violence by the end of the 1970s. It also analyzes Le nègre blanc, a classic, French-language Belgian comics series for children drawn by Joseph Gillain (Jijé, 1914–1980), and its reference to religion or superstition.
