TY  - CHAP
A1  - Packard, Stephan
A2  - Leinfelder, Reinhold
A2  - Hamann, Alexandra
A2  - Kirstein, Jens
A2  - Schleunitz, Marc
T1  - How Factual are Factual Comics? : Parasitic Imaginations in Referential Cartoons
T2  - Science meets comics : proceedings of the Symposium on Communicating and Designing the Future of Food in the Antropocene
N2  - There is no doubt that factual discourse exists in comics – the kind of communication that intends to be understood as a reference to a shared and actual reality. Factual comics are not, however, common. While the formal structure of comics clearly allows for factuality, the historical specificity of its aesthetics seems to introduce a non-binding but plausible 'drift' of the art form, ultimately pulling away from reality and towards fiction. This does not prevent factual comics, but it allows for subversive remnants in their aesthetic make-up. One of these is a 'parasitic  imagination', which might be understood in the context of Michel Serres' concepts of the parasite. It opens up cartoonish depictions for tertiary significations beyond the drawing and its ultimate real reference. Rather than avoid this basic vehicle of comic book discourse, the 'challenge to factual comics' must be how to employ them in the service of the intended communication.
KW  - Tatsache
KW  - Comic
KW  - Fiktion
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46780
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-467803
UR  - https://zenodo.org/record/556383#.WyjZtmff673
SN  - 978-3-941030-93-0
SP  - 27
EP  - 10
PB  - Ch.A. Bachmann Verlag
CY  - Berlin
ER  -