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The Restoration libertines were the successors of the Lucretian philosophical tradition, which emphasized the pursuit of physical and sensory pleasure in life. The primary objective of the libertines was to attain sexual pleasure by emancipating sexuality from societal constraints and the institution of marriage. In The Country Wife, a Restoration...
When we speak of Shakespeare, at least three aspects of his magical personality seem to be unveiling. In the first place, he was a man who lived like other men of his times and died 400 years ago. We hardly know this man to a satisfactory extent and whatever we know is less than significant. Secondly, there is the dramatic genius whose plays are ac...
The aim is to report on one of the actions of an extension project that brought together children from four municipal schools, two located in outlying neighborhoods and two located in the Pantanal wetlands, in the city of Corumbá, MS, and a circus show. The actions took place during the second semester of 2023. A variety show was created and perfor...
The article is written in Croatian language and English language.
Preschool education in the Republic of Croatia is structured to support artistic activities that contribute to children's holistic development through an interdisciplinary approach and integration of content from various areas. In this context, music and fine art education are impor...
The need for a homeland where Jews could protect themselves was another factor in establishing the Jewish state. After personally experiencing antisemitism, Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, wrote in his diary in June 1895 that he “recognized the emptiness and futility of efforts to ‘combat antisemitism’” in Europe. “Declamat...
Science comic based on auvidi media are rarely applied in science learning. Based on the result of pre-research at SMP Al Hikam Kemayoran students consider that learning science is very difficult and boring due to the lack of use of learning media. The solution given is to develop science comics based on auvidi media on global warming materials. Th...
Comics is a sequential art that appeals to a diversified audience, a medium of reflection on culture, society, and history. Graphic literature is a discourse of dynamic interaction of graphics in literature, including literary comics, graphic novels, sequential art, juxtaposed images, and other dimensions of visual and printed images. A Graphic nov...
Partiendo de la definición de igualdad de género como construcción social y de la idea del noveno arte como un vehículo socializador y educativo, este estudio presenta la siguiente pregunta de investigación: ¿cómo aparece la representación del género en los cómics de autoría portuguesa publicados y expuestos en Portugal en la transición de la segun...
This research observes and examines Seventeen Carat's hyperreality on fandom identity that would sparks protest movement whenever there's changes in the identity through the theory perspective of Jean Baulliard's Revenge of The Crystal Theory using virtual enthography method on several fandom twitter account. The result of this research shows that...
Scholarship on superhero comics and other superhero media consistently highlights the important role of justice considerations in the acts and motivations of superheroes. However, these analyses are usually not informed by developmental psychology, specifically as it is practiced within the constructivist tradition. To address this gap, the present...
Introducción: Se pretende contrastar si la utilización del cómic mejora el aprendizaje de los contenidos y su retención. Metodología: Participaron 66 alumnos/as de Primaria de 7 y 8 años, divididos en dos grupos: grupo control y grupo experimental (en este se utilizó viñetas propias del cómic). Se administró un pre y post test pedagógico en tres mo...
Forensic science has become a standard feature in criminal investigations and trials. However, it can often be a challenge for experts in courtrooms to communicate scientific evidence clearly to lay audiences through verbal expert witness testimony alone. The Evidence Chamber is an interactive experience engaging public audiences with forensic scie...
This paper describes the development and use of brief 2-3 minute drawing prompts that have been successfully integrated into all phases of the medical school curriculum. The drawing prompts provide students with a way to express complex ideas visually, and are an effective way to introduce and discuss challenging topics through the medium of comics...
The comic biography of the pancreas presented in this project integrates narrative-based medicine (NBM) with graphic storytelling to explore the subjective experiences of patients with pancreatic diseases. By combining scientific and humanistic perspectives, the comic format captures the complexity of illness, illustrating not only the physical but...
The study explored the dominant learning styles, influential factors, and preferred learning activities and media of Grade 7 students enrolled in the Korean language program, aiming to enhance instructional material design and teaching strategies. Adopting a one-group descriptive research design, the study involved a total population of 80 students...
Non-fiction graphic narratives have emerged as a growing genre, allowing for a critical and humanized approach to historical events. These works combine text and image to enrich the interpretation of facts, facilitating an emotional connection with the protagonists and offering an accessible and subjective memory of the past. In this article, we an...
Dado el lenguaje interdisciplinario que la caracteriza, es casi ya un tópico aludir a las posibilidades expresivas de la narrativa gráfica, una etiqueta que, a su vez, goza de variadas iteraciones taxonómicas, bien sea el cómic, referente terminológico al que se acoge este número, el álbum o el libro ilustrado. Así pues, en todo lo que llevamos de...
This study aims to develop interactive learning media for English subjects for grade VIII students at SMP Negeri 3 Gorontalo using the Adobe Animate application. The research method used is Research and Development (RD) with the ADDIE development model, which includes the stages of Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The...
Currently, there are several digital applications that make it possible to create comics, which can enhance study in obligatory secondary education. Their use is an excellent contribution to the curriculum of different subjects by presenting the content through contextualised images and a more accessible language. This study will focus on the educa...
In the librettos of Italian operas, characters often associate precise metrical functions with certain personal features. For example, comical or low-class characters express themselves in octosyllables (verses with a hammered rhythm pattern), while serious and more socially important characters prefer the nobler septenaries (verses with mobile acc...
2024 occasions the anniversary of 200 years from composer Bedřich Smetana’s birth, considered the founder of Czech national music. Two of his works, the opera The Bartered Bride) and the symphonic poem Vltava also receive wide acclaim nowadays. In the eight operas he finalised, quite different in action and meaning, the composer puts together Bohem...
Comic journalism is one of the trends in the ninth art that is gaining importance within academic studies in graphic narrative. However, the concept of travel, inherent to that of reportage, has not been studied as much by the academy. Hence the desire to study the existence of comic travel journalism as an extension of this journalistic specialisa...
To survive in different environments, performances adapt and grow to the measure of the different conditions of reception offered by these contexts. This article reviews the development in China and abroad of xiangsheng, or ‘crosstalk’, a Chinese comic double-act that relies on quickfire exchanges and narrative skills on stage. It brings together a...
This research aims to examine the low interest in reading among Nias University students. Several factors that influence the low interest in reading are the development of digital technology, dependence on instant information via the internet, and the perception that reading is boring and takes up a lot of time. The research results show that stude...
Victoria Lomasko is a graphic artist whose work lies at the intersection of comics and journalism. Her work focuses on exposing social and political issues, using comics as a tool for testimony and shedding light on oppressed realities. Through her graphic chronicles—such as those found in *Other Russias* (2020) and *The Last Soviet Artist* (2022)—...
Comic Journalism has been considered merely a format for reportage, for chronicles, or, according to some studies, as a subgenre of graphic journalism. However, it is clear that this "slow journalism," which, in the words of Joe Sacco, focuses on "the people beneath the headlines," is already a different, innovative, and unique entity that goes bey...
Reading is essential in language development, mainly when learning and teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In that case, few studies have explored using English comics as a reading-learning method for EFL students, specifically in Indonesian schools. In response, the researcher was interested in exploring the teachers' perspectives on usi...
Through a performative and interdisciplinary approach, the video essay Monsters invites viewers to consider the unique ability of comics to represent mental states of young adults and children who struggle with eating disorders (EDs). We use close readings of a selection of panels from two Norwegian comics, the graphic short story “Sulten” (Hunger/...
This article examines the role played by comic books in justifying the Korean War to adolescent readers in the United States. Specifically, it argues that romance comics—perhaps the most widely read youth publications of the early 1950s—helped to prepare teenaged girls for the trials and tribulations that an emerging Cold War would entail. Love-the...
En este aporte se analizan las narrativas de ficción como un recurso didáctico para reflexionar sobre procesos vinculados a la enseñanza de las ciencias, en específico sobre la enseñanza de la química. A partir de una selección de narrativas y personajes populares, tanto actuales como de hace algunas décadas, se sistematizan los imaginarios sociale...
The presence of cartoons, comics, and graphic narrative has an at least centennial history that can be dated as far back as Le Corbusier’s childhood. However, the introduction of comics in the design studio is not a recent development1. Only in the late 1960s and 1970s, the comics medium was embraced by architects who located themselves outside the...
The purpose of the study is to identify linguistic means of creating American jokes containing nationally specific realities and to determine strategies for their translation into Russian in order to teach undergraduates in language teaching areas to analyze linguistic means of creating a comic effect and translate the text elements containing unit...
A Feira de Ciência e Tecnologia de Campo Grande (FECINTEC) é promovida anualmente pelo Instituto Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (IFMS) e soma números significativos de trabalhos expostos com potencial inovador e passível de proteção intelectual. Este estudo tem como objetivo a construção de material instrutivo que colabore na disseminação dos concei...
In 2023, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the report Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation demonstrating that pronounced loneliness corresponds to “a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety, and premature death” (p. 4). The comics medium offers...
What draws comic artists to magic? Why do so many create tarot decks? How might graphic medicine inform, and be informed by, thinking about comics and tarot together? With a recent proliferation of tarot and comics in queer community and movement spaces, this paper considers how the formal elements and practices of reading both comics and tarot ref...
This paper features excerpts from a book-length diary comic that chronicles a year of mourning after my father’s death. The narrative weaves together reflections on his illness and passing, while exploring the complex role of being a son, a doctor, and a bioethicist—someone deeply informed, yet powerless to change the course of his decline.
This article presents the development and conception of the concept comic “EvoChange”. In the form of a comic-based MuxBook, individual student conceptions of human evolution are identified and integrated into the learning process with the help of adaptive learning aids. The aim is to be able to react adequately to different ideas by developing ada...
Several studies have shown a notable discrepancy between the academic level of learners and their comprehension of various literary works in both the English and Filipino languages. Therefore, educators must consistently enhance their teaching methodologies and curricula. To address these problems, the researcher conducted a study that specifically...
El villano como héroe se ha convertido en un tropo narrativo muy repetido en las historias protagonizadas por superhéroes independientemente del medio en el que estas se creen, llegando a desarrollar una variante propia del arquetipo del antihéroe. Sin embargo, es mucho más infrecuente que el villano adopte el manto o el propio cuerpo del héroe hac...
This article explores the rise of comics-based research (CBR) as an innovative method for disseminating and translating academic findings to broader audiences. Rooted in the established use of comics in technical communication, CBR takes the unique strengths of graphic media—accessibility, multimodal engagement, and visual storytelling—to communica...
Статтю присвячено аналізу сміхового дискурсу періоду російсько-української війни. Розглянуто лексику різних семантичних груп у розгортанні площини комічного. Визначено стилістичне навантаження власних і загальних назв, одиниць різних рівнів мовної системи. Виявлено лінгвальні й екстралінгвальні механізми розвитку сміхової культури впродовж воєнних...
In the era of globalization and information technology that continues to develop, the world of education must be able to adapt to various changes. One very important aspect of the world of education is the use of learning media. This study aims to determine whether the development of learning media in the form of comics based on scientific literacy...
Arginine vasopressin (AVP) is a neuropeptide whose dysregulation has previously been associated with symptom severity in children with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), theory of mind (ToM) deficits as well as problems with memory consolidation. However, AVP is rarely measured because of its short half-life and laborious method of detection. Copeptin...
This article discusses the political potential of sharing comics and cartoons on Instagram when that practice lies in the intersection of autobiographical art, feminist activism, and for-profit influencer work. Through a case study of cartoonist Mary Catherine Starr, aka @momlife_comics, and the 2022 viral campaign against her work known as ‘Peachg...
This study aimed to develop science educational comics and evaluate their effectiveness in enhancing students' metacognitive skills in understanding abstract concepts in cell biology. A 20-item multiple-choice test was utilized to assess improvements in analytical thinking and reading comprehension, aligned with the objectives of the topics include...
The purpose of the study is to determine the specifics of actualization of mechanisms of variable interpretation of reality in modern Russian institutional discourse, which allows interpreting the situation as containing euphemization or euphemism, and therefore generating an unintended comic effect. The article examines the mechanisms and techniqu...
From the confluence of social, cultural and urban history, Cartas para Pepo examines everyday life vis-à-vis the genealogy of the Chilean illustrator René Ríos Boettiger (1911-2000), delving into his sensibilities, emotions, and affect, establishing a connection with the autobiographical tone of his artistic production, his intersubjectivity, and h...
Background: Teaching conflict resolution skills in nursing
education is essential for managing complex health care
dynamics. Traditional methods often fail to engage students
effectively. Narrative strategies, such as unfolding comic narratives,
offer creative engaging alternatives. Method: Faculty
created visually rich unfolding comic narratives d...
Information is seen as an essential element for the social mobility of individuals in contemporary times. Knowing how to access, understand and use information is extremely important for a society to make progress. Thus, this article proposes, by a literature review, a reflection on the role of comics as a means of social transformation, by tracing...
This research examines the influence of the TV telenovela O bem-amado
on Brazilian political culture. The telefiction, authored by Dias Gomes and broadcast on Rede Globo de Televisão in 1973, during the civil-military dictatorship, was
subjected to the classic hermeneutic method for historical investigation. To comprehend the audiovisual language s...
The Physics teacher in High School (HS) finds alternatives so that the student can easily understand the concepts of radio waves and microwaves. The objective of this work is to build a Learning Object (LO) for the discipline of Physics through a Comics as a support for the teacher. For the development of the LO, HagáQuê software (Bin, Tanaka and R...
Pentecostalism has been a movement that has gained immense prominence since its advent at the dawn of the renaissance following the break away from the middle age church. More recently, it has gained wide acceptance and followership as modernity and its attendant consequences puts humanity in a consistent quest for answers to life’s many questions....
Social design was the theoretical basis for this research, and the main objective was to understand how minority communities, specifically LGBTQIAPN+, had their lives narrated in comic books. The final result was a catalog of comics with LGBTQIAPN+ themes and the creation of the original comic book: “Vivências”, which addresses the theme of adoptio...
This paper addresses the intricate task of studying humor considering its dependence on cognition, emotions and even human perception. It focuses on the use of stereotypes within verbal humor, having stand-up comedy as the center of the study. Specifically, it examines how Trevor Noah, a South African comedian, utilizes stereotypes to entertain and...
Insights have been developed into social media influencers and marketing strategies which aid book discovery and sales. However, less is known about the distinctions in the use of social media platforms in the comic, zine, and art publishing sectors. Focusing on the author’s use of Instagram in her artist-publisher-researcher practice, this article...
In this project, we develop a practical and efficient solution for automating the Manhwa translation from Indonesian to English. Our approach combines computer vision, text recognition, and natural language processing techniques to streamline the traditionally manual process of Manhwa(Korean comics) translation. The pipeline includes fine-tuned YOL...
How do we make sense of our surroundings? A widely recognized field in cognitive psychology suggests that many important functions like memory of incidents, reasoning, and attention depend on the way we segment the ongoing stream of perception (Zacks & Swallow, 2007). An open question still is, how the structure generated from a perceptual stream t...
Whereas the earliest farces deal with human appetites on the most basic level, by the mid-nineteenth century these had been sublimated and incorporated into a newly mechanical format. Inaugurated by Eugène Labiche, and perfected by Alfred Hennequin and Georges Feydeau, these masterpieces of clockwork ingenuity would appear to be the inspiration for...
Pengembangan media digital tidak hanya menunjang proses pembelajaran tetapi juga membuat pembelajaran mengikuti perkembangan teknologi terkini. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan komik digital berbasis STEM. Penelitian ini merupakan jenis penelitian pengembangan. Model pengembangan yang digunakan adalah model ADDIE yang terdiri dari lima...
Global South-shaped by colonial legacies and structural inequalities-often intersect with comic forms of expression. From the colonial-era Punches in India to graffiti in the streets of Hong Kong, from satirical collectives in Zimbabwe to politically charged memes influencing elections across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, humor has long served a...
The Google search engine has begun providing search results using Generative AI in addition to providing hypertext links to relevant documents on the internet. A key question if whether the Generative AI results are informative and accurate enough to be useful as an addition to just providing a list of relevant documents with hypertext links. In th...
Resumo O presente artigo tem como tema o corpo dissidente e o corpo em guerra na história em quadrinhos Degenerado, da autora Chloé Cruchaudet, publicada no Brasil pela editora Nemo. A obra conta a história de Paul, soldado desertor na Paris da Primeira Guerra Mundial, que passa a se travestir para que não o identifiquem. Contudo, o travestismo pas...
In Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle’s graphic novel Squad, protagonist Becca and her new friends at Piedmont High are not human adolescents but a pack of werewolves who must kill to stay alive and select teenage boys—“the WORST ones” (70)—as their meal of choice. The power of the pack’s “monstrous” bodies is a dangerous privilege and responsibili...
This paper aims to discuss yet once more the extensively commented opening of Plato's Symposium. Some scholars have readily acknowledged that the second summon οὗτος Ἀπολλόδωρος was intended to be comically rude. Inspecting the examples of vocative οὗτος in Greek drama, I shall argue that there is syntactical and pragmatic evidence that outweighs i...
The article examines the relationship between the travesty and burlesque poem Aeneid (1794-1822) by the Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769-1838) and its sources – the Russian heroic-comic poem Aeneid by N. Osipov and A. Kotelnitsky and Virgil’s poem Aeneid. The codes of the comic (burlesque) travesty of the Ukrainian Aeneid are revealed: the...
The paper offers a concise survey of Vergil’s presence in contemporary culture, taking into consideration various contexts such as literature, film, comics, and music. Additionally, it explores the connection between Vergil’s works and the current debate on the literary canon.
Prevailing political and popular narratives often treat the issue of trans death as an inevitability and reduce complex stories of trans life to their endings. This paper investigates the transformative potential of creative forms of resistance—specifically a selection of Canadian poetry, personal essays, and comics—and how their artistic affordanc...
Antonio Fraguas (“Forges”) was part of a series of cartoonists who, at the begin-ning of the seventies, decided to use humor as a tool to talk about a country that the Regime had sought to silence for too long. Through his comic strips in magazines such as Hermano Lobo or Por Favor, he made social criticism that achieved great success among readers...
Background
Menstrual Health (MH) knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) are highly affected by access to information regarding menstruation. Despite being included in the school curriculum, Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) education is often not delivered in practice. School-based educational interventions have been shown to be effective in pro...
Abstract. This article gives an answer to the question about the appropriateness of including humorous materials in the English-language disciplines of the educational programs of students specializing in journalism and editorial work. A stylistic, cognitive and pragmatic analysis of a sample of English-language jokes about journalists and editors...
Objective
The aim of this study was to create a patient-centered comic on palliative care with and for patients admitted to a palliative care unit and to examine their experiences of graphic educational material.
Methods
This study employed a qualitative methodology using semi-structured interviews with advanced cancer patients admitted to the pal...
Objectives
Both mindfulness and humor are inherently connected to well-being. Recent research found evidence for their combined effect in a joint training, the Humor-Enriched Mindfulness-Based Program (HEMBP). This study extends these findings by exploring (1) effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on different forms of humor, (2) dif...
This paper examines some essential dichotomies in Carlo Collodi’s Le avventure di Pi- nocchio. Storia di un burattino through its implications on the level of comic and popular culture. On the one hand, starting from chapters I-III and VIII, it analyses Collodi’s reflec- tion on artistic creation and its connection with fatherhood, especially on it...
It aims to present resources that enable deeper reflection on comic books produced by women in Brazil through a case study of actions promoted by the 7th Curitiba Comics Biennial, which took place in September 2023, as well as evaluating parallel activities that aimed to expand the reach and consumption of these works. The hypothesis that guides th...
This study explores the use of English comics as a tool to enhance story retelling skills among Islamic university students. The research employs a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative and qualitative data to assess the effectiveness of comics in improving students' language proficiency. Sixty undergraduate students from an Islamic univer...
This article presents research conducted within the qualitative paradigm and an interpretative approach, with the primary aim of developing two Contextualized Conceptual Comic Strips (ccc) and implementing them as a motivational, contextual, and reflective didactic strategy to foster discussion and understanding of territory as a social construct w...
This article presents a systematic review of ethnoscience in physics learning. This research was conducted to examine how the utilization of ethnoscience in physics learning. This type of research is a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) with the PRISMA method. Findings on google scholar found 30 articles that match the theme. Ethnoscience obtained...
In this project, we develop a practical and efficient solution for automating the Manhwa translation from Indonesian to English. Our approach combines computer vision, text recognition, and natural language processing techniques to streamline the traditionally manual process of Manhwa(Korean comics) translation. The pipeline includes fine-tuned YOL...
Examining Japanese history through manga may initially seem unconventional, given the considerable distrust towards the medium in Western scholarship, where it is often viewed as a tool for distorting history. To avoid misinterpretation in the analysis of Japanese comics, it is essential to approach them with what Tessa Morris-Suzuki terms historic...
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan mendeskripsikan kelayakan serta respon peserta didik terhadap media komik Legenda Gunung Pinang dalam upaya meningkatkan literasi budaya siswa fase B di SDN Pasir Gadung. Penelitian menggunakan metode Research and Development dengan model ADDIE. Data kuantitatif berasal dari hasil validasi ahli budaya...
Comics
This chapter explores the medium of comics as popular visual literature, characterised by both the medium's relationships with the history of drawing and by the changing historic contingencies under which the medium has been recognised, utilised and transformed. Drawing encompasses comics. Very few types of drawing are specific to comics alo...
The study presents reflections on the historical relevance of buffoons through an analysis of the artistic and social view from the buffoon to the hospital clown. The subject is discussed in four topics: The mask, the actor, and the audience; The buffoon and the expression of ridicule; The spectacle and the indication of ridicule; and Laughter in t...
Este artículo expone la investigación propuesta dentro del paradigma cualitativo y bajo un enfoque interpretativo con la finalidad principal de desarrollar dos Historietas Conceptuales Contextualizadas (HCC) e implementarlas como estrategia didáctica, motivadora, contextual y reflexiva para posibilitar la discusión y comprensión del territorio como...
This dissertation explores the experiences and creative work practices of migrant game developers ("game expats") in Finland, focusing on the factors that motivate them to move to or leave the country, as well as the cultural adaptations they encounter in their work practices. Additionally, the study includes methodological and pedagogical explorat...
Swearing is a sociolinguistic phenomenon that is very often found in everyday life. It is not only found in real life, but swearing is very easy to get in cyberspace, especially in the entertainment industry. This study focuses on sociolinguistic analysis which discusses cursing or swearing in one of the entertainment industries, namely Stand-Up Co...
Stand-up in contemporary popular culture of post-Soviet space
IIІ. Woman in the psychological optics of the comic
The article is dedicated to the analysis of women's stand-up comedy in the post-Soviet space and its reflection on the theme of women's gender socialization in the new century. The national polyphony of female voices in stand-up is uni...
This study examines the Hai Miiko comic, popular among Indonesian teenagers, which tells the story of Miiko, a cheerful fifth-grader experiencing puberty. Using Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotic theory, the research analyzes the comic's visual elements, language, and context to uncover deeper meanings and symbolism. Key concepts such as synchronic a...
The scope of pragmatic studies consists of 3 components, namely presupposition, conversational implicature, and entailment. One of the pragmatic studies that examines the meaning of assumptions or assumptions in speaking is presupposition. This study aims to describe and explain the dominant forms of presupposition in the online comic "Ngopi, Yuk!"...
Children are vulnerable to diseases due to unhealthy living habits so children need correct health information for healthy living behavior. The reading community as a store and manager of knowledge has health information services for children. Three reading community in Sumedang Regency provide health-themed books and provide health-themed literacy...