Ann Miller and Bart Beaty (eds.) The French Comics Theory Reader. Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels

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Eye/I: Rodolphe Töpffer's Style and the Concept of Graphiation

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Hillary Chute's Ambivalent Idiom of Witness

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";Times New Roman";,";serif";; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Hillary L. Chute, <em><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Graphic Women</span></em></em><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics</em>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";Times New Roman";,";serif";; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">New York: Columbia UP, 2010</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";Times New Roman";,";serif";; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Paper, 316 pages, ISBN: 978-0-231-15063-7<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></strong></span></p&gt

Iconic/Ironic Greenery: The Cultural Cultivation of Plants in Brecht Evens' The Making Of

In " Iconic/Ironic Greenery: The Cultural Cultivation of Plants in Brecht Evens' The Making Of", the plant-strewn pages of Brecht Evens' graphic novel art parody The Making Of (2012, originally published in Dutch as De Liefhebbers (2011)) are analyzed from an intertextual point of view that pays special attention to the Pattern and Decoration movement and to the element of kitsch. As a way of investigating the use of plant-life in art, this analysis shows how plants and flowers, even (and perhaps especially) when abundantly present in an artwork can be effaced in their symbolic and biological capacity and instead come to function in a purely instrumental manner. In light of the overwhelming silence of plants as plants in the graphic novel, this text raises questions pertaining to the knowability of plants to humans.status: publishe

The Visual Co-textualization of Spatio-Joual in the Motel Galactic Series

In this article the authors question whether the co-presence of words and pictures specific to the comics medium creates possibilities for the comprehension of regional languages and dialects abroad. They propose to call this phenomenon "visual co-textualization" rather than visual contextualization after the difference which contemporary linguistics makes between the extra-textual environment of a given utterance (context) and its textual or visual surroundings (co-text). They examine in what way the interaction of words and pictures can generate (linguistic) intelligibility and raise the question as to how the intelligibility-generating operations possible in the comics medium can be used as creative narrative devices on a micro and a macro-level. The authors formulate an answer to these questions by analyzing the Motel Galactic trilogy (2011-2013), a series of Quebecois science-fiction comics written primarily in Joual and produced by the creative tandem Francis Desharnais (scenario) and Pierre Bouchard (drawings).status: publishe

Comics and Time

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The Visual Co-textualization of Spatio-Joual in the Motel Galactic Series

In this article the authors question whether the co-presence of words and pictures specific to the comics medium creates possibilities for the comprehension of regional languages and dialects abroad. They propose to call this phenomenon "visual co-textualization" rather than visual contextualization after the difference which contemporary linguistics makes between the extra-textual environment of a given utterance (context) and its textual or visual surroundings (co-text). They examine in what way the interaction of words and pictures can generate (linguistic) intelligibility and raise the question as to how the intelligibility-generating operations possible in the comics medium can be used as creative narrative devices on a micro and a macro-level. The authors formulate an answer to these questions by analyzing the Motel Galactic trilogy (2011-2013), a series of Quebecois science-fiction comics written primarily in Joual and produced by the creative tandem Francis Desharnais (scenario) and Pierre Bouchard (drawings)

Er zit swung in de (meeste) woonzorgcentra

De coronacrisis dwingt woonzorgcentra nog meer dan voordien om effectief te veranderen en innoveren met het oog op de kwaliteit van leven, wonen en werken. Onderzoek bij 61 West-Vlaamse woonzorgcentra suggereert de nood aan een tweesporenbeleid om de woonzorgcentra in deze beweging mee te krijgen: blijvende ondersteuning en professionalisering voor het merendeel dat de voorbije jaren al inzette op innovatie en transitie versus het warm maken en op sleeptouw nemen van die voorzieningen die aangeven de voorbije jaren geen veranderingen te hebben doorgevoerd noch plannen te hebben in die aard.status: Published onlin