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[Mike Rhode]

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*Strong Bonds: **Child-animal Relationships in Comics*
par Maaheen Ahmed (ed.)
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Snoopy and Charlie Brown, Calvin and Hobbes, Tintin and Snowy… comics are
home to many memorable child and animal figures. Many cultural productions,
especially children’s literature and cartoons, stress the similarities
between children and animals, similarities that have their limits and often
place the child, as human, above the animal. Still, these fictional
situations offer opportunities for thinking of child-animal relationships
in diverse ways through, for instance, considering the possibilities of
privileged contact between children and animals or of animals that are more
knowledgeable and powerful than children and even adults.
Despite the prevalence and success of child-animal tandems in comics and
culture, we know very little about these relationships. What makes them so
popular? How do they work? How much do they vary across time and cultures?
What do they tell us about the place of animals and children in comics and
in the real world?
*Strong Bonds: Child-animal Relationships in Comics* takes a first,
important step in this direction. Bringing together scholars with a diverse
range of comics expertise, the volume’s chapters combine contextualized
readings of comics with relevant theories for interrogating childhood and
animalhood, their overlaps and divergences. The strong bonds between
children and animals mapped out here point towards alternative modes of
conceptualizing family and identity and, ultimately, alternative means of
reading, interpreting and imagining.
With chapters on early comics (the Italian children’s magazine* Corriere
dei Piccoli* during WWI, Harold Gray’s* Little Orphan Annie*) international
and regional classics (*Tintin*, the Flemish *Jommeke*) and contemporary
graphic novels (Bryan Talbot’s* A Tale of One Bad Rat*, Brecht Even’s
*Panther*), this critical anthology sheds light on a vast array of
child-animal relationships in comics from Europe and North America.


*Maaheen Ahmed* is an associate professor of comparative literature at
Ghent University. She is author of *Openness of Comics* (2016) and *Monstrous
Imaginaries: The Legacy of Romanticism in Comics *(2020). She is currently
principal investigator of the ERC-funded project COMICS which seeks to
piece together an intercultural history of children and comics.
ISBN : 978-2-87562-259-4
Année de publication : 2020
Prix : 16.00€ TVAC
Pages : 296
Disciplines : ACME, Tout le catalogue
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