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Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of comics through their novels, from the 19th to 21th centuries. It provides an overview of a poorly catalogued and understudied corpus, while also affording first original insights into them
List of contents
Introduction. Comics-related novelsComics and literature
A novel perspective on comics and adaptations
Comics novelization and the visual turn of literary writing
Two adaptation processes generating comics-related novels
Towards a literary history of
bande dessinéeChapter 1. Textual margins of early comicsHow to verbalize a picture story?
Close reading:
Voyages and Adventures of Dr FestusCaptions rewritten as a bridge over redrawn illustrations
Big Little Books and the French book market: a missed rendezvous
From captioned picture stories to serials-under-images
Mickey et Minnie, a precursor to the modern French junior novelization
Chapter 2. Enunciative issues of comics verbalizationsThe literary adventures of Tintin
An issue of enunciative responsibility
Literary initiations to a visual universe
Close reading:
The Adventures of TintinWhen comics fans write literary panels
From ekphrasis to fanfiction
Chapter 3. Why self-novelize a comic strip?The illusion of a deeper reading experience
Comics artists and literary illustration
A logic of supplement
Close reading:
Acknowledgment of Murders, Ric Hochet's First CaseFrom graphic to literary novels
A logic of substitution
Chapter 4. The comics heroes' childhood told to childrenHow to relate the past of comics heroes
The literary prequels of French comics characters
Multiple childhoods of a Belgian-Japanese comics heroine
Close reading:
The Froth of Dawn, the First Adventure of Yoko TsunoComics-related French junior novelizations
When a comics character writes his own autobiography
Conclusion. Reading novels as comics novelizationsComics on the threshold of literary texts
Comics as a frame for multimodal storytelling
Comics in the factory of literary writing
Reading novels as comics scripts
ReferencesComics-related fiction
Other primary sources
Secondary criticism
Index
About the author
Benoît Glaude is a researcher at Universiteit Gent and a visiting lecturer at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He has published several books about French-speaking comics, including his PhD on comics dialogues (
La Bande dialoguée, 2019), as well as a volume on novelization in children's literature (
Les Novellisations pour la jeunesse, coedited with Laurent Déom, 2020).
Summary
Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of comics through their novels, from the 19th to 21th centuries. It provides an overview of a poorly catalogued and understudied corpus, while also affording first original insights into them
