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Stripburger's largest and most impressive anthology to date, focusing on the topic of war. For over ten years, Stripburger has been Eastern Europe's crown jewel in contemporary world comics and cartooning. The latest volume of their highly regarded annual anthology, this year titled Warburger, clocks in at 400 pages and is without a doubt their most ambitious volume to date. This crucially important edition, edited and produced in conjunction with the renowned Peace Institute, features over 80 cartoonists from Eastern and Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Korea, and Israel. Aleksandar Zograf, whose own life living in war-torn Serbia inspired his own vital anti-war comics, writes the Introduction.
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To this day, no comprehensive academic study of the development of guidebooks to Rome over time has been performed. This book treats the history of guidebooks to Rome from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century. It is based on the results of the interdisciplinary research project Topos and Topography, led by Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota. From the case studies performed within the project, it becomes evident that the guidebook as a phenomenon was formed in Rome during the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The elements and rhetorical strategies of guidebooks over time have shown to be surprisingly uniform, with three important points of development: a turn towards ...
Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact—especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives—in their physical and metaphorical manifestations—this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics.
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