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- W2149238475 abstract "In the late 1960s, underground cartoonists established the comic book form as aspace for the exploration of personal identity. “Alternative” comics grew out of thistradition as subsequent writers produced work independently of the major comicspublishers, aimed at an adult audience and encompassing a broad range ofvisual styles and narrative content. Throughout the past forty years, British, USand Canadian writers and artists have used this medium to explore questions ofselfhood and perception, often implicitly or overtly relating these issues to theform, history and conventions of the comic book itself.Two main threads run through this discussion of the representation ofselfhood: childhood and memory on the one hand and sexuality and gender onthe other. This thesis argues that for many creators there exists a useful analogybetween the comic book form and mental processes, specifically between thefractured, verbal-visual blend of the comics page and the organisation of humanmemory. It further suggests that the historical association of comics first withchildhood, and subsequently with male adolescence, has conditioned therepresentation of selfhood in adult comics. Comic book consumption has oftencentred on a community of predominantly young, white, male, socially marginalreaders, buying and collecting serialised narratives. Comics creators’ awarenessof this audience (either in response or resistance) has affected the content oftheir work.Although presented as a chronological narrative, this thesis is not acomprehensive history of Anglophone alternative comics, but centres on eightprominent authors/artists: Robert Crumb; Dave Sim; Lynda Barry; Julie Doucet;Alan Moore; the collaborative partnership of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean; andChris Ware. Whilst spanning a wide range of genres and themes (autobiography,fantasy, gothic horror, parody, soap opera, the grotesque and others) eachconfronts and negotiates with conventions regarding the representation ofselfhood." @default.
- W2149238475 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W2149238475 creator A5086206861 @default.
- W2149238475 date "2009-08-01" @default.
- W2149238475 modified "2023-09-23" @default.
- W2149238475 title "Identity and form in alternative comics, 1967-2007" @default.
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