All Articles tagged Comics

• Scholarly articles
  December 22, 2022 AEST
  “Loading memories…”: Deteriorating pasts and distant futures in Stuart Campbell’s These Memories Won’t Last
  Shannon Sandford

  This paper considers how webcomics might transform the stasis of word-and-image to explore and communicate subjects that sit on the outer edges of representation, such as memory, identity and trauma.

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• Scholarly articles
  October 31, 2022 AEST
  Comics into Adversary: A consideration of how comics thinking can inform the representational challenges of post-crisis creative writing
  Ronnie Scott

  The essay articulates the challenges of writing contemporary gay male “post-crisis” fiction, which troubles the foundations of many representational strategies familiar to creative writers.

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• Scholarly articles
  October 29, 2018 AEST
  Peculiar integrations: Adaptations, experimentations and authorships in The Long Weekend in Alice Springs
  Ronnie ScottElizabeth MacFarlane

  This paper investigates approaches to authorship in _The Long Weekend in Alice Springs_ (2013), a graphic adaptation by artist Joshua Santospirito of a psychoanalytic essay by Craig San Roque (2004).

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• Special Issues: scholarly article
  October 31, 2017 AEST
  The Body is Just a Metaphor for the Soul: Performing trauma in the work of Leela Corman and Tom Hart
  Elizabeth MacFarlaneLeonie Brialey

  This paper discusses the graphic narrative as a dynamic space in which to re-enact, relive, and re-tell experiences of grief, trauma, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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