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Comics studies. Potentials and perspectives
Kořínek, Pavel ; Jareš, Michal ; Foret, M. ; Prokúpek, T.
options and prospects presents texts based on working versions that were read out at the colloquium of the same name in 2011 in Olomouc. Thus a broad range of various subjects with different research approaches is represented, from historicizing excursions and individual schools, traditions and phenomena to interpretational insights into the possibilities of analysing comics material and its features, or theorizing contributions on problems of definition and methodology, to texts on individual “applied” views of work with comics in various fields. Hence to summarize, the publication presents selected perspectives from comics studies (mediological, semiotic, literary studies, narratological, historical, sociological, anthropological, translatological and pedagogical) and thus perhaps has the potential to become a 'new start' in domestic comicsological research, which on a world scale has been a dynamically developing humanities and social science field over the last few years. The attached poll then expands on papers and studies primarily from domestic researchers to include the reflections of comics studies from elsewhere. A set of archive materials then collects and for the first time entirely reprints several difficult-to-find picture series from the domestic tradition of this medium.
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"And this here beetle". Attempts to depict Kafka's Metamorphosis in comics format
Jareš, Michal
This study deals with several attempts to depict Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis (1915) in a comics format. The first recalls the historical context in illustrations of Gregor Samsa. In the three selected comics cases the treatment shows gestures and additional explanations of some things, which are sometimes too literal. All three authors are artists from alternative comics. Two Americans, Robert Crumb and Peter Kuper, are complemented by an attempt by the Czech comics creator, Václav Gatarik. By means of a detailed comparison of some key scenes in Kafka’s story we attempt to show the issues behind the comics treatment.
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Banal as a speech bubble - the adjective "comics" as genre specification
Kořínek, Pavel
The terminological confusion that is still present when considering the nature of comics (is it a genre, perhaps even literary a form or a medium?) is reflected in the usage of the adjective "komiksový" (comics, the adjectival form which in Czech refers specifically to comics) in texts of various media. This description is commonly used as a characterization that usually refers to specific formal, genre-based or subject-based similarities. However, in most cases this adjectival notation only revives genre stereotypes, or non-systematically marks the source medium of adapted material. Do "comics radio shows", "theatre comics" or "comics movies" exist? As the article argues, the most common reasons for labelling other-media texts as comics are: 1. formal proximity of the media involved, 2. the superhero genre, 3. animation or cartoon technique, 4. humour, dottiness, sometimes even the perceived qualitative inadequacy of the text under review.
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