Bringing up mischievous strips: the Katzenjammer kids’ domestication in Spanish and Italian children’s comics magazines

This article examines how the comic series The Katzenjammer Kids, created by Rudolph Dirks in 1897 and whose main characters are two wicked children, has been usually altered, modified, and reframed due to its publication in Spain and Italy. By using the concept of domestication and utilizing tools...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Wiele, Eva Van de, Pintor Iranzo, Ivan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/57982
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57982
http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1104240ar
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Domestication
Katzenjammer Kids
Busch
Knerr
Dirks
Spain
Italy
comics studies
Corriere dei Piccoli
Espagne
Italie
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Sumario:This article examines how the comic series The Katzenjammer Kids, created by Rudolph Dirks in 1897 and whose main characters are two wicked children, has been usually altered, modified, and reframed due to its publication in Spain and Italy. By using the concept of domestication and utilizing tools of the history and formal analysis of comics and the contextual studies used in iconography, we try to study the influence and the afterlife impact of the forms, narratives, and gags of The Katzenjammer Kids and, at the same time, to provide a theoretical-methodological framework for understanding the cultural scope of these phenomena that characterize a field of study such as comics reception, which has been relatively underdeveloped.