Introduction. Intermediality: Genetics and Enrichment of the Language of Comics

[EN] The introductory article to this special issue o intermediality and comics focuses on exploring the richness of graphic narrative beyond the conventional understanding of comics as a multimodal medium that often combines text and images. Primarily using diverse examples of Spanish comics as its...

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Authors: Catalá, Jorge, Mitaine, Benoît, Quaianni Manuzzato, Lisa Maya, Trabado Cabado, José Manuel
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2023
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de León
Repository:BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
OAI Identifier:oai:buleria.unileon.es:10612/21306
Online Access:https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/eca/16/2/eca160201.xml
https://hdl.handle.net/10612/21306
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Literatura comparada
Comics
Intermediality
Adaptation
Animation
Digital
6301.09 Sociología de la Literatura
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Summary:[EN] The introductory article to this special issue o intermediality and comics focuses on exploring the richness of graphic narrative beyond the conventional understanding of comics as a multimodal medium that often combines text and images. Primarily using diverse examples of Spanish comics as its focus, this essay investigates intermedial relations between comics and music, adaptation and animation, as well as the extension of comics beyond physical and digital spaces. Drawing on existing research on intermediality more broadly and specific scholarly literature that examines comics as an intermedial cultural production or in relation to other media, the article argues that intermediality has been a consistent theme throughout the history of Iberian comics and key to new aesthetic and conceptual explorations in the medium