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Studies in Comics 12.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Studies in Comics 12.1 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives’

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Aims and Scope

Studies in Comics aims to describe the nature of comics, to identify the medium as a distinct art form, and to address the medium’s formal properties. The emerging field of comics studies is a model for interdisciplinary research and in this spirit this journal welcomes all approaches. This journal is international in scope and provides an inclusive space in which researchers from all backgrounds can present new thinking on comics to a global audience. The journal will promote the close analysis of the comics page/text using a variety of methodologies. Its specific goal, however, is to expand the relationship between comics and theory and to articulate a ‘theory of comics’. The journal also includes reviews of new comics, criticism and exhibitions, and will offer space for cutting-edge and emergent creative work.

Issue 12.1

Editorial

ISABELLE HESSE AND SARAH LIGHTMAN

Articles

Out of family, into history: A comparative study of the superchild in Corriere dei Piccoli, TBO and The Adventures of Tintin

IVAN PINTOR IRANZO AND EVA VAN DE WIELE

Can stereotypical housewives in Flemish family comics divorce? The cases of Jommeke and De Kiekeboes

MICHEL DE DOBBELEER

The problem with empathy: Justification and appeasement in Hey, Kiddo and Real Friends

DANIELLE SUTTON

Drawing childhood in conflict: Malik Sajad’s Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir

LAN DONG