Comics as a nexus of cultures : essays on the interplay of media, disciplines and international perspectives

These essays from various critical disciplines examine how comic books and graphic narratives move between various media, while merging youth and adult cultures and popular and high art. The articles feature international perspectives on comics and graphic novels published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, India, and Japan. Topics range from film adaptation, to journalism in comics, to the current manga boom.

Intermedial. Spatializing the movie screen: how mainstream cinema is catching up on the formal potentialities of the comic book page / Jochen Ecke -- The Marvel Universe on screen: a new wave of superhero movies? / Andreas Rauscher -- From trauma victim to terrorist: redefining superheroes in Post 9/11 Hollywood / Dan A. Hassler-Forest -- "Picture this": disease and autobiographic narration in the graphic novels of David B and Julie Doucet / Jonas Engelmann -- Novel-based comics / Paul Ferstl -- In the art of the beholder: comics as political journalism / Dirk Vanderbeke -- International. The Carrefour of practice: Québec BD in transition / Michel Hardy-Vallée -- The use of allusion in Apitz and Kunkel's Karl comics / Sandra Martina Schwab -- Cultural specifics of a Scottish comic: Oor Wullie / Anne Hoyer -- Memento Mori: a Portuguese style of melancholy / Mario Gomes and Jan Peuckert -- Otherness and the European as villain and antihero in American comics / Georg Drennig -- 2000AD: understanding the "British invasion" of American comics / Ben Little -- Whatever happened to all the heroes? British perspectives on superheroes / Karin Kukkonen and Anja Müller-Wood -- A cornerstone of Turkish fantastic films: from Flash Gordon to Baytekin / Meral zìõnar -- From capes to snakes: the Indianization of the American superhero / Suchitra Mathur -- The roving eye meets traveling pictures: the field of vision and the global rise of adult manga / Holger Briel -- Kawaii vs. Rorikon: the reinvention of the term Lolita in modern Japanese Manga / Dinah Zank -- Mangascape Germany: comics as intercultural neutral ground / Paul M. Malone -- Interdisciplinary. Workshop I: toward a toolbox of comics studies / Karin Kukkonen and Gideon Haberkorn -- Workshop II: Comics in School / Mark Berninger -- Workshop III: teaching comics and literary studies-Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' "A midsummer night's dream" / Mark Berninger -- Workshop IV: teaching comics and film studies-Ang Lee's The hulk (USA 2003) / Andreas Rauscher -- Comic linguistics: comics and cartoons in academic teaching / Christina Sanchez.