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Comics Scholarship and Comparative Studies

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This chapter offers a brief overview of other ways to approach comparative studies of comics.

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    Drew Hopkins, “The Dilberting of Taiwan,” Connect, Vol. 1 (Fall 2000): 151–160.

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    Heike Elisabeth Jüngst, “Japanese Comics in Germany,” Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2004): 83–105.

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    Adele D’Arcangelo and Federico Zanettin, “Dylan Dog Goes to The USA: A North American Translation of an Italian Comic Book Series,” Across Languages And Cultures, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2004): 187–210. See also, Federico Zanettin, “Comics in Translation Studies: An Overview and Suggestions for Research,” in Vlle Seminaire de Traduction Scientifique et Technique en Langue Portugaise, Tradução e interculturalismo: actas do seminário (Lisbon: União Latina, 2005): 93–98.

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    Casey Brienza, Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) and Global Manga: Japanese Comics Without Japan? (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015).

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    Fusami Ogi, Lim Cheng Tju, and Jacqueline Berndt, eds, “Women’s Manga Beyond Japan: Contemporary Comics as Cultural Crossroads in Asia,” International Journal of Comic Art, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2011): 1–199 and Lim Cheng Tju, “Stories by Female Comic Artists in Southeast Asia,” in International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture, Masami Toku, editor (New York: Routledge, 2015), 77–86.

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    Thierry Smolderen, “Of Labels, Loops, and Bubbles: Solving the Historical Puzzle of the Speech Balloon,” Comic Art, No. 8 (Summer 2006): 90–113; Pascal Lefèvre, The Battle Over the Balloon: The Conflictual Institutionalization of the Speech Balloon in Various European Cultures,” Image & Narrative, Vol. 14 (July 2006), http://www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/painting/pascal_levevre.htm.

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Gordon, I. (2016). Comics Scholarship and Comparative Studies. In: Kid Comic Strips. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55580-9_5

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