Picturing childhood : youth in transnational comics / edited by Mark Heimermann and Brittany Tullis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heimermann, Mark, 1981- editor.

Tullis, Brittany, 1979- editor.

Series:

World comics and graphic nonfiction series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Children.

Youth--Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Youth.

Comic books, strips, etc--Social aspects.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Comic books and children.

Children in literature.

Genre:

Comics (Graphic works)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Graphic novels.

Physical Description:

xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.

Summary:

Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie, to Hergé's Tintin (Belgium), José Escobar's Zipi and Zape (Spain), and Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz (Germany), iconic child characters have given both kids and adults hours of entertainment, and also have served as an important vehicle for exploring children's lives and the sometimes challenging realities that surround them. Bringing together comics studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection of essays provides the first wide-ranging account of how children and childhood, as well as the larger cultural forces behind their representations, have been depicted in comics from the 1930s to the present. The authors address issues such as how comics reflect a spectrum of cultural values concerning children, sometimes even resisting dominant cultural constructions of childhood; how sensitive social issues, such as racial discrimination or the construction and enforcement of gender roles, can be explored in comics through the use of child characters; and the ways that comics use children as metaphors for other issues or concerns. Specific topics discussed in the book include diversity and inclusiveness in the Little Audrey comics of the 1950s and 1960s, the fetishization of adolescent girls in Japanese manga, the use of children to build national unity in Finnish wartime comics, and how the animal/child hybrids in Sweet Tooth act as a metaphor for commodification. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Little Orphan Annie as Streetwalker / Pamela Robertson Wojcik Wojcik, Pamela Robertson 13

Chapter 2 Competent Children and Social Cohesion: Representations of Childhood in Home Front Propaganda Comics during World War II in Finland / Ralf Kauranen Kauranen, Ralf 30

Chapter 3 In the Minority: Constructions of American Dream Childhood in 1950s-Early 1960s Little Audrey Comics / Christopher J. Hayton Hayton, Christopher J., Janardana D. Hayton Hayton, Janardana D. 48

Chapter 4 Comics and Emmett Till / Qiana Whitted Whitted, Qiana 70

Chapter 5 Out of the Mouths of Babes: Mafalda's Interrogation of the Argentine Angel in the House / Brittany Tullis Tullis, Brittany 92

Chapter 6 Sex, Comix, and Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Zap Comix's Attack on the American Mainstream / Ian Blechschmidt Blechschmidt, Ian 108

Chapter 7 RAW and Little Lit: Resisting and Redefining Children's Comics / Lara Saguisag Saguisag, Lara 128

Chapter 8 Lolieon: Adolescent Fetishization in Osamu Tezuka's Ayako / James G. Nobis Nobis, James G. 148

Chapter 9 Wise beyond Her Years: How Persepolis Introjects the Adult into the Child / Clifford Marks Marks, Clifford 163

Chapter 10 Vehlmann, or the End of Innocence: Lessons in Cruelty in Seuls and Jolies ténèbres / Annick Pellegrin Pellegrin, Annick 181

Chapter 11 Zeno, Childhood, and The Three Paradoxes / C. W. Marshall Marshall, C. W. 199

Chapter 12 Dancing with Demons: Consciousness and Identity in the Comics of Lynda Barry / Tamryn Bennett Bennett, Tamryn 218

Chapter 13 The Grotesque Child: Animal-Human Hybridity in Sweet Tooth / Mark Heimermann Heimermann, Mark 234.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781477311615

1477311610

9781477311622

1477311629

OCLC:

949553916