In the first volume of Au travail (2012), Olivier Josso Hamel remembers his childhood readings of classic Franco-Belgian comics by actually redrawing those fetishized panels into the texture of his own work. Rooted in an autobiographical approach, this quotational practice denotes a retrospective reflection on what Pierre Sterckx called the…[Read more]

Cet article examine la place du comic strip au sein du roman graphique contemporain à travers l’analyse de Little Tommy Lost (2013) de l’auteur américain Cole Closser. La particularité de cette œuvre tient en ce qu’elle se propose comme un pastiche rigoureux de divers comic strips des années 1920 et 1930, allant jusqu’à se faire passer pour u…[Read more]

Revew article on Pascal Robert (dir.), Bande dessinée et numérique, Paris, CNRS Éditions, coll. « Les essentiels d’Hermès », 2016, 252 p., ISBN: 9782271087591.

Cultural memory in comics studies mostly seems to revolve around nonfictional graphic novels tackling major historical events. Drawing on recent trends in cultural memory studies, this paper focuses on Jacques Ristorcelli‘s Les Écrans (2014) as an experimental counterpoint where memory is animated by the author’s use of collage. Delving into an ‘…[Read more]

Jean-Michel Bertoyas’s oeuvre is composed primarily of self-published comics fanzines whose main traits are an art brut approach and a peculiar use of diversion and collage techniques. His case invites us to uphold and expand upon the many reflections initiated by the ACME research group on “comics in dissent” by looking more closely at the dynam…[Read more]