by Nicoletta Mandolini, Alessia Mangiavillano, Giorgio Busi Rizzi and Eva Van de Wiele
From Monday 12 July to Thursday 15 July, the third edition of the AIPI (Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano) Summer School took place in Ghent. For the first time, the Summer School was dedicated to the study of comics. The edition was sponsored by AIPI; the Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels; the Dante Alighieri Society of Ghent; and the research groups COMICS and SnIF.
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Tags: A Contract with God, adaptation, Alberto Giolotti, Alexander Calder, authorship, autofiction, Belgium, City of Glass, collages, comics, David Mazzucchelli, discontinuity, Enki Bilal, film, Finnegans Wake, fumetti, Gene Roddenberry, Gianni Colombo, graphic journalism, Graphic Novels, Henry Jenkins, imagination, Italy, James Joyce, Kafka, Kobane Calling, La Guerre des tranchées, Le Château, Le Voyage, Lev Manovich, literature, Lovecraft, Marvel, mass media, merchandising, metafiction, Mickey Mouse, Mobile sur deux plans, Olivier Deprez, Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle, political engagement, radio, Reinhard Kleist, representation of realities, Robert Crumb, Roland Barthes, SnIF, social commentary, stagnation, Star Trek, Strutturazione fluida, subjectivity, Summer Schools, television, Tezuka Osamu, transmediality, transtextual narratives, Trilogie Nikopol, Umberto Eco, Will Eisner, Zerocalcare
by Véronique Sina
In France Enki Bilal may be one of the most popular comics artists who specialised in the genre of science fiction during his lifelong career. Since the mid 1970s his work has been characterised by the presentation of bleak visions of the future in which ruthless conglomerates reign and governments as well as ecological systems tend to collapse[1]. Most often the protagonists of these dystopic visions are disillusioned and broken heroes whose adventures Bilal manages to capture with the help of his surrealistic artwork. In the following I would like to focus on one of those broken heroes – namely Alcide Nikopol, the protagonist of Bilal’s comic book series La Trilogie Nikopol (1980-1992) – in order to analyse the construction of masculinity[2] in Bilal’s work by showing how performative discourses of gender and media go hand in hand in La Trilogie Nikopol[3]. In this respect, ‘masculinity’ is understood as a performative concept, i.e. as doing masculinity. As the American gender theorist Judith Butler elaborates
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Tags: brokenness, Charles Baudelaire, discontinuity, duplication, Enki Bilal, fragmentation, France, Franco-Belgian Comics, Gender, hybridity, identity, linearity, masculinity, mental health, Paris, Trilogie Nikopol
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AIPI Summer School 2021 Ricerca a fumetti (Researching comics: genres, form(s), variations) 1/2
by Nicoletta Mandolini, Alessia Mangiavillano, Giorgio Busi Rizzi and Eva Van de Wiele
From Monday 12 July to Thursday 15 July, the third edition of the AIPI (Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano) Summer School took place in Ghent. For the first time, the Summer School was dedicated to the study of comics. The edition was sponsored by AIPI; the Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels; the Dante Alighieri Society of Ghent; and the research groups COMICS and SnIF.
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Posted by Annick Pellegrin on 2021/09/15 in Conference reports
Tags: A Contract with God, adaptation, Alberto Giolotti, Alexander Calder, authorship, autofiction, Belgium, City of Glass, collages, comics, David Mazzucchelli, discontinuity, Enki Bilal, film, Finnegans Wake, fumetti, Gene Roddenberry, Gianni Colombo, graphic journalism, Graphic Novels, Henry Jenkins, imagination, Italy, James Joyce, Kafka, Kobane Calling, La Guerre des tranchées, Le Château, Le Voyage, Lev Manovich, literature, Lovecraft, Marvel, mass media, merchandising, metafiction, Mickey Mouse, Mobile sur deux plans, Olivier Deprez, Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle, political engagement, radio, Reinhard Kleist, representation of realities, Robert Crumb, Roland Barthes, SnIF, social commentary, stagnation, Star Trek, Strutturazione fluida, subjectivity, Summer Schools, television, Tezuka Osamu, transmediality, transtextual narratives, Trilogie Nikopol, Umberto Eco, Will Eisner, Zerocalcare