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In organizing the 2009 UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, “Convergences: Comics, Culture and Globalization,” one of our goals was to increase awareness of the global nature of comics scholarship and the richness of global perspectives that could be brought to bear on comics. Thanks to the generous support of the Alachua County ...
Similarly, a greater appreciation of the transnational workings of the censorship of political cartoons (Goldstein, 1989a: 72-112 and 2000; Scully, 2011 b), and of the way that free-market, liberal mechanisms -- such as European imperialism (especially the British Empire), and latterly, the American-driven "empire" of globalization -- have allowed an essentially Anglo-American form of the art ...
- Richard Scully
Jun 28, 2023 · Abstract. This review considers the contributions of two 2021 monographs—Christopher J. Gilbert’s Caricature and National Character: The United States at War and Paul Hirsch’s Pulp Empire: A Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism —each of which examines the role of cartooning in shaping attitudes towards warfare, imperialism, and ...
Aug 18, 2016 · The U.S. and France generally have maintained a collaborative media relationship, and the exchange of popular comics and television cartoons has been an important part of this relationship.
The notion that comics as a form is somehow especially suited to representing the cultural politics of multiculturalism builds on Derek Parker Royal’s assertion, made five years earlier in his “Foreword” to Multicultural Comics, that “given its reliance on symbols and iconography, comic art [transcends] many of the national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries imposed by other media ...
Jun 1, 2023 · A tidal wave of racist, sexist, and violent commercial comics washed over the globe at the same time, creating numerous foreign policy crises for the United States and triggering a vast anti–comic book crusade at home. Relatively uncensored, globally popular, and characterized by the diversity of its creators and consumers, commercial comic ...
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Summary. This book has engaged with the practice and politics of everyday global resistance through a performative study of the emergence of British comedy. Against instrumental and critical approaches to the role of comedy and resistance in global politics, I argue that we need to pay more attention to the productive elements of humour.
