Kid Comic Strips

A Genre Across Four Countries
2017. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-56197-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 94 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 275 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries. Ian Gordon explains how similar humor played out in comic strips across different cultures and humor styles. By examining Skippy and Ginger Meggs, the book shows a good deal of similarities between American and Australian humor while establishing some distinct differences. In examining the French translation of Perry Winkle, the book explores questions of language and culture. By shifting focus to a later period and looking at the American and British comics entitled Dennis the Menace, two very different comics bearing the same name, Kid Comic Strips details both differences in culture and traditions and the importance of the type of reader imagined by the artist. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why Kid Comics.- 2. America and Australia: Skippy and Ginger Meggs.- 3. America and France: Perry Winkle and Bicot.- 4. America and Britain: Dennis the Menace (s).- 5. Comics Scholarship and Comparative Studies.

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Gordon is a cultural historian at the National University of Singapore, where he is the Convenor of American Studies.  His publications include Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945 (1998, 2002) the co-edited volumes Film and Comic Books (2007) and Comics & Ideology (2001), and the forthcoming monograph Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon (2017).