This book opens a novel perspective on comics and literature interactions. It claims that the two artistic media have always maintained a mutual emulation, for as long as they have coexisted in media culture. To demonstrate this, the present research does not focus on literary adaptations in comics form but rather on a literary corpus that remains virtually unexplored: comics-related novels. The purpose of this volume is to inventory French comics-related novels and to study them. Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of bande dessinée through its novels, from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Although the comic strip – including the aptly named "graphic novel" – has sometimes been regarded as the disciple of an unsurpassable literary model, do these under-studied adaptations in novel form not rather indicate a mutual relationship, or even an emulation, between the two media?
Author(s): Benoît Glaude
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature, 158
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 213
City: New York
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction: Comics-Related Novels
Comics and Literature
A Novel Perspective On Comics and Adaptations
Comics Novelization and the Visual Turn of Literary Writing
Two Adaptation Processes Generating Comics-Related Novels
Towards a Literary History of Bande Dessinée
Notes
1 Textual Margins of Early Comics
How to Verbalize a Picture Story?
Close Reading: Voyages and Adventures of Dr Festus
Captions Rewritten as a Bridge Over Redrawn Illustrations
Big Little Books and the French Book Market: a Missed Rendezvous
From Captioned Picture Stories to Serials-Under-Images
Mickey Et Minnie, a Precursor to the Modern French Junior Novelization
Notes
2 Enunciative Issues of Comics Verbalizations
The Literary Adventures of Tintin
An Issue of Enunciative Responsibility
Literary Initiations to a Visual Universe
Close Reading: The Adventures of Tintin
When Comics Fans Write Literary Panels
From Ekphrasis to Fanfiction
Notes
3 Why Self-Novelize a Comic Strip?
The Illusion of a Deeper Reading Experience
Comics Artists and Literary Illustration
A Logic of Supplement
Close Reading: Acknowledgement of Murders, Ric Hochet’s First Case
From Graphic to Literary Novels
A Logic of Substitution
Notes
4 The Comics Heroes’ Childhood Told to Children
How to Relate the Past of Comics Heroes
The Literary Prequels of French Comics Characters
Multiple Childhoods of a Belgian-Japanese Comics Heroine
Close Reading: The Froth of Dawn, the First Adventure of Yoko Tsuno
Comics-related French Junior Novelizations
When a Comics Character Writes His Own Autobiography
Notes
Conclusion: Reading Novels as Comics Novelizations
Comics On the Threshold of Literary Texts
Comics as a Frame for Multimodal Storytelling
Comics in the Factory of Literary Writing
Reading Novels as Comics Scripts
Notes
References
Index
