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Comics have long been a focus of scholarly inquiry. In recent years, this interest has taken a methodological turn, with scholars integrating comics creation into the research process itself. In this article, the authors begin to define and document this emerging, interdisciplinary field of methodological practice. They lay out key affordances that comics offers researchers across the disciplines, arguing that certain characteristics—multimodality, blending of sequential and simultaneous communication, emphasis on creator voice—afford powerful tools for inquiry. The authors finish by offering some questions and challenges for the field as it matures.

Für viele Kinder sind heute Comics wichtiger als Bücher. Durch das Übergewicht der Bilder sind bei Comics die Anforderungen an das Vorstellungsvermögen geringer als bei geschriebenen Texten. Kritiker hatten deshalb befürchtet, durch die Flut der Bildergeschichten könne die Fähigkeit zu lesen und der Umgang mit Büchern verloren gehen. Diese Befürchtung hat sich nicht bestätigt. Die Autorin gibt einen Überblick über die historische Entwicklung der Comics im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert und zeigt an Beispielen die große Vielfalt des Genres. Wie kaum eine andere Literaturgattung wirken die Comics grenzüberschreitend. Da ihre Lesbarkeit nicht an der Sprache verhaftet ist, sondern am Bild, können sie überall verstanden und überall gemacht werden. Die Comics bieten eine schnelle Information, die nicht auf bestimmte Sozialschichten beschränkt ist. Diese allgemeine Zugänglichkeit macht sie zum Massenmedium. (KA)

In this article, I look at how comics aimed at young readers can serve to disrupt normative notions, gendered binaries, and fixed designations through featuring, or focusing on, queer girlhoods. In doing so I consider two contemporary series, Ms. Marvel and Lumberjanes. I contextualize these titles against aspects of the publishing of comics, before analyzing some of the narratives and characters in the texts in relation to queer girlhoods. I conclude that the comics offer different approaches and, therefore, differentiated reading experiences for the young readers who engage with them, but that they also form part of a wider grouping of titles that offer diverse images of young people embracing affiliations going beyond family and nation.

The growing popularity of comics in Ukraine and worldwide increases scientific attention to this type of information product. The article is devoted to generalising the leading tendencies in the Comics Study and researching comics in modern humanities. Based on the study devoted to comics professional publications, profile resources of world comics research centres and the current state of understanding the phenomenon of comics magazines and Internet resources, application of review-analytical, historical-chronological, dialectical, socio-communication, and content analysis methods has been detected that the syncretic nature of comics made them a research subject in various sciences and programme subject areas: literary studies, linguistics, cultural study, art history, history, political science, and others. Leading research centres of Comics Study are the International Comic Art Forum, the British Consortium of Comic Researchers, the Comics Research Hub of the University of the Arts, the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics, the Society for Comics Researchers (USA). The educational direction of Comics Studies has been represented by bachelor's, master's, and doctoral (doctor of philosophy) educational programs in higher education institutions of different countries: the University of Florida, University of Toronto, University of California Santa Cruz, University of Portland, West University, University Dundee, Teesside University, Lancaster University (UK), Kyoto Seika University (Japan). The growth of scientific knowledge in Comics Study, on the one hand, and on the other hand - the predominance of interdisciplinary approach in the studies necessitated the establishment of special scientific journals dedicated to comics, such as the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Studies in Comics, European Comic Art. In Ukraine, the study of comics at the dissertation level took place in the dimension of pedagogy and philology. However, some scientific research on comics is available in journalism, press studies, ...

Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954?62), anti-racist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the formal dismantling of the French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic minority and immigrant heritage are a major focus, including Zeina Abirached (Lebanon), Yvan Alagbé (Benin), Baru (Italy), Enki Bilal (former Yugoslavia), Farid Boudjellal (Algeria and Armenia), José Jover (Spain), Larbi Mechkour (Algeria), and Roland Monpierre (Guadeloupe). The author analyses comics representing a gamut of perspectives on immigration and postcolonial ethnic minorities, ranging from staunch defense to violent rejection. Individual chapters are dedicated to specific artists, artistic collectives, comics, or themes, including an anti-racist comic strip serialised in Charlie Hebdo, undocumented migrants in comics, and racism in far-right comics

Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954?62), anti-racist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the formal dismantling of the French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic minority and immigrant heritage are a major focus, including Zeina Abirached (Lebanon), Yvan Alagbé (Benin), Baru (Italy), Enki Bilal (former Yugoslavia), Farid Boudjellal (Algeria and Armenia), José Jover (Spain), Larbi Mechkour (Algeria), and Roland Monpierre (Guadeloupe). The author analyses comics representing a gamut of perspectives on immigration and postcolonial ethnic minorities, ranging from staunch defense to violent rejection. Individual chapters are dedicated to specific artists, artistic collectives, comics, or themes, including an anti-racist comic strip serialised in Charlie Hebdo, undocumented migrants in comics, and racism in far-right comics.

Dieses einzigartige Grundlagenwerk beleuchtet die Gattung Comic und Graphic Novel aus historischer und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Beiträge zur Comicforschung von überwiegend jungen Literatur-, Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftlern, die sich in den letzten Jahren mit der Thematik beschäftigt haben, aber auch Vertreter aus dem Verlagswesen und Journalisten nähern sich analytisch der Enstehungsgeschichte und Entwicklung, den Subgenres sowie den unterschiedlichen Formaten der Gattung. Das Werk enthält außerdem einen Leitfaden zur Comicanalyse, der eine eigene wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Comics ermöglicht. Besonders angenehm fällt auf, dass es den Herausgebern und Autoren gelungen ist, trotz wissenschaftlichem Anspruch ein gut lesbares Werk vorzulegen, sodass sich dieses nicht nur an Hochschulen, sondern ggf. auch in der Oberstufe einsetzen lässt. Ein Glossar und ein Personenverzeichnis erleichtern zudem die Nutzung. Erfreulich, dass nun ein wissenschaftlich fundiertes Buch über Comics zur Verfügung steht. Empfohlen für Großstadtbibliotheken und Bibliotheken mit Comic-Schwerpunkt. (2-3) (Maria-Inti Metzendorf)