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The Greenlandic oral story-telling tradition, Oqaluttuaq, meaning “history,” “legend,” and “narrative,” is recognized as an important entry point into Arctic collective memory. The graphic artist Nuka K. Godtfredsen and his literary and scientific collaborators have used the term as the title of graphic narratives published from 2009 to 2018, and focused on four moments or ‘snippets’ from Greenland’s history (from the periods of Saqqaq, late Dorset, Norse settlement, and European colonization). Adopting a fragmentary and episodic approach to historical narrativization, the texts frame the modern European presence in Greenland as one of multiple migrations to and settlements in the Artic, rather than its central axis. We argue that, in consequence, the Oqaluttuaq narratives not only “provincialize” the tradition of hyperborean colonial memories, but also provide a postcolonial mnemonic construction of Greenland as a place of multiple histories, plural peoples, and heterogenous temporalities. As such, the books also narrativize loss and disappearance—of people, cultures, and environments—as a distinctive melancholic strand in Greenlandic history. Informed by approaches in the field of cultural memory and in the study memorial objects, Marks’ haptic visuality and Keenan and Weizman’s forensic aesthetics, we analyze the graphic narratives of Oqaluttuaq in regard to their aesthetic dimensions, as well as investigate the role of material objects and artifacts, which work as narrative “props” for multiple stories of encounter and survival in the Arctic.
The Greenlandic oral story-telling tradition, Oqaluttuaq, meaning “history,” “legend,” and “narrative,” is recognized as an important entry point into Arctic collective memory. The graphic artist Nuka K. Godtfredsen and his literary and scientific collaborators have used the term as the title of graphic narratives published from 2009 to 2018, and focused on four moments or ‘snippets’ from Greenland’s history (from the periods of Saqqaq, late Dorset, Norse settlement, and European colonization). Adopting a fragmentary and episodic approach to historical narrativization, the texts frame the modern European presence in Greenland as one of multiple migrations to and settlements in the Artic, rather than its central axis. We argue that, in consequence, the Oqaluttuaq narratives not only “provincialize” the tradition of hyperborean colonial memories, but also provide a postcolonial mnemonic construction of Greenland as a place of multiple histories, plural peoples, and heterogenous temporalities. As such, the books also narrativize loss and disappearance—of people, cultures, and environments-as a distinctive melancholic strand in Greenlandic history. Informed by approaches in the field of cultural memory and in the study memorial objects, Marks’ haptic visuality and Keenan and Weizman’s forensic aesthetics, we analyze the graphic narratives of Oqaluttuaq in regard to their aesthetic dimensions, as well as investigate the role of material objects and artifacts, which work as narrative “props” for multiple stories of encounter and survival in the Arctic.
Von kultureller Akzeptanz noch weit entfernt, entwickelte der Comic gegen Ende der 1960er Jahre ganz neue Qualitäten: In der bewegten gesellschaftlichen Atmosphäre dieser Zeit aufgeladen mit politischen und künstlerischen Ambitionen fi ndet er seine Adressaten nicht mehr nur beim Kinderpublikum, sondern richtet sich zunehmend an eine politisch bewegte Öffentlichkeit der Heranwachsenden und Erwachsenen.
This essay on the nature of the boundary of the comics form is an analysis of US Congressman John Lewis’s autobiography March, which recounts his early days as a civil rights leader and is in the form of a comic or "graphic novel". A few key examples are examined in which normally distinct images and textual elements blend together thereby bringing into question the nature of the boundary in a more general sense as it functions in the comics. Some of the formal elements of the graphic novel analyzed by the essay include its symbolic composition, arrangement of panels and images, treatment of light and dark areas, deployment of racialized icons, and blurring of temporalities and history.
In visual narratives such as comics, national images are actually depicted. While Franco-Belgian comics have been the subject of detailed studies regarding the national stereotypes they convey, Flemish comics have been largely ignored. This article focuses on three albums of the Flemish comic series "Suske en Wiske", in which the heroes travel to a fictitious Eastern Bloc country, Japan, and China. It will examine how both heteroimages and auto-image are presented (visually, textually, and as part of the plot), and how comic characters may combine contradictory ethnotypes. As it will turn out, in the early album (1945) ethnotypes are perpetuated, whereas in later ones (1984, 2008) they are rather undermined.
Mit spitzer Feder
(2020)
Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht. Im Fall des Klimawandels und angrenzender Themen kann es allerdings durchaus passieren, dass einem dabei der ein oder andere Gluckser schmerzhaft im Halse stecken bleibt. Dem Berliner Zeichner und Karikaturisten Freimut Wössner gelingt es wie kaum einem anderen, die kleinen und großen Unzulänglichkeiten menschlicher Individuen mit der Feder aufzuspießen. Der Themenkreis Klimakrise und Umweltschutz bietet hierfür viel Stoff: Maßlose Konsumgelüste und unreflektierte Bequemlichkeit, dabei aber den Umweltschutz immer wacker auf den Lippen – niemand ist wirklich ganz davor gefeit und bekommt von Wössner einen Spiegel vorgehalten. Vielleicht helfen dem gebürtigen Schwaben dabei seine acht Semester Psychologiestudium, die er in München, Marburg und Saarbrücken absolviert hat. F.W. Bernstein nannte Wössner einst einen »Chronisten unseres postmodernen Biedermeiers«
In Japan, most contemporary readers expect comics, or manga, to be entertaining fiction ('story manga'), magazine-based, and targeted at age- and gender-specific demographics. These narratives eventually reappear in bound book editions ('tankōbon'), after they have proven to be popular to an extent that would warrant print runs of more than 5,000 copies. Due to the central role of magazines as first site of publication since the 1960s, genre specificity has been essential – for editors, readers, and artists alike. While manga's traditional genres have been gender- and age-specific, thematic genres such as SF, horror and comedy, or recently also blog-like essay manga, come to the fore whenever the otherwise prevalent categories forfeit efficacy. But there is one genre which does not comply with these categories, i.e. gakushū manga, educational or instructional comics.
Lustige Geschichten
(1952)
Lieber Anti als Held : Wiederholen und 'Werden' als Leitmotive in Charles Burns' 'Black Hole'
(2017)
Charles Burns’ Comic 'Black Hole', in dem die Jugendlichen einer High-School als Folge einer sexuell übertragbaren Krankheit mutieren, greift den in Superheldencomics klassischen Topos der Metamorphose auf. Im Gegensatz zu den positiven Mutationen im DC- oder Marvel-Universum, zeigt 'Black Hole' nur Deformation, die sich nicht ästhetisch oder sinnvoll auflösen lässt. Kritisch werden Erwachsenwerden und Pubertät als monströse Transformation einer Gruppe erfasst und Grenzen zwischen Realität und Phantastik, Individualisierung und Konformität, sowie sexuelle Dichotomien thematisiert. Die von Burns dargestellten Metamorphosen lassen sich mit dem Begriff des 'Werdens' fassen, mit dem Deleuze und Guattari die Idee eines strukturalistischen Ordnungssystems etablieren, das die Differenzen der einzelnen Subjekte als deren Beziehungen untereinander erfasst und diese mittels Techniken der Phantastik und der Metamorphose erkennbar zu machen vermag. Neben den Metamorphosen, ist es die Ideen der Mannigfaltigkeit des 'Werdens' und dessen infektiöse Ausbreitung, die sich analog in Burns’ Bilderwelten findet. Die Werdungs-Gruppe wird dabei nicht durch traditionelle soziale Paradigmen geprägt oder gar durch den Konsens einer homogenen Gruppe, wie sie etwa der Superheldencomic beschreibt. Indem Narrativik und Graphik die Grenzen des Medium Comics ausloten, offenbart Black Hole einen phantasmagorischen Raum der Ich-Werdung. Konventionellen Erzählformen wird eine Diachronie entgegengesetzt, die es genauer zu bestimmen gilt.