Comic research

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The comic Research is the scientific exploration of the literary and artistic expression comic . In addition to dealing directly with comics, they are also important as reference material for art historical, journalistic and sociological, semiotic-linguistic and cultural-historical studies.

Comic research in Germany

The history of German comics is still only rudimentarily researched; where this is the case, research is often accused of nostalgic transfiguration. Comic research has long since found its way into the serious reception of literature and is widely and variedly taken up in the media.

Important pioneers of comic research are Andreas C. Knigge , who worked for a long time for the influential Carlsen Verlag and published the comic trade magazine Comixene from 1974 to 2013, and Volker Hamann , who is responsible for the comic reception with Edition Alfons and his specialist magazines, such as the The specialist magazine Reddition has offered a forum for comic research since the late 1980s at the latest, as has the literary historian and editor Eckart Sackmann , who has been publishing a yearbook on German comic research since 2005 , with which the gaps in research on the medium, especially in German-speaking countries, are to be closed . Each volume in this series covers a wide range of German comics, from very early to more recent examples. In doing so, Sackmann follows the expanded concept of comics, which has been represented for some time by Scott McCloud and the international research group Platinum . Other important contributions to comic research can be found in comic magazines such as The Comics Journal (English, ISSN  0194-7869 ). However, science and journalism or fandom cannot always be clearly separated. The International Journal of Comic Art ( ISSN  1531-6793 ), founded in 1999, and the e-journal ImageTexT ( ISSN  1549-6732 ), founded in 2004, are entirely dedicated to scientific comic research .

In addition to the activities of the above-mentioned editors, publicists and magazines, various university and non-university institutions have also dedicated themselves to comic research for several years. Important institutions in German-speaking countries are, for example, the Institute for Youth Book Research in Frankfurt and the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover. At the Institute for German Studies at the University of Hamburg , the Department of Graphic Literature (ArGL) has existed since the early 1990s and has its own special library (“Bédéthek”) with around 12,000 media units. These institutions are often in close contact with the editors of the magazines and publishers mentioned above. Independent institutions explicitly for comic research at universities are rare, but comic research has also increasingly been carried out in other academic disciplines in recent years, for example in ( linguistics and literary studies ), as well as media studies and education . The subject areas include the analysis of different forms of comics and their reception, graphic narrative strategies and stylistic devices, certain authors and styles as well as studies of the history of comics.

In order to bring the various actors together and to network with one another, the Society for Comics Research (ComFor) was founded in Germany on February 11, 2005 in Koblenz by eight comic experts from all over Germany , which conducts interdisciplinary research and focuses on disciplines such as visual and literary studies , includes applied linguistics , art history , folklore , newspaper and history studies . The company makes it its task to promote and network comic research in German-speaking countries.

Switzerland

The comic archive Center BD de la Ville de Lausanne was founded in Switzerland in 1999 .

Fonts

The standard work of comic research is u. a. Understanding Comics (1993, published in German as Read Comics correctly ) by Scott McCloud , which is himself written in the form of a comic. In addition, the following important writings can be named:

literature

  • Eckart Sackmann: The German-language comic trade press. An inventory. comicplus +, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-89474-085-X (also: Hamburg, Univ., FB Sprachwiss., Diss., 1999).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maus I - Holocaust and Hitler in comics in the FAZ by Patrick Bahner on November 26, 2011.
  2. ↑ How German comics celebrate success in Erlangen - Don Quixote chases Spiderman , article by Markus Lippold on n-tv , last accessed on August 14, 2018.
  3. ^ "Fix & Foxi" exhibition - anyone who wants to show foxes has to be cunning by Andreas Platthaus , FAZ on November 29, 2016.
  4. ↑ About Art Spiegelman's comic “Breakdowns” as a symptom of an international tendency by Volker Hamann in the FAZ on December 6, 2008.
  5. ↑ Many talented comic artists come from Hamburg in the world by Katja Engler on 30 June 2012 found.