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Meneses, Juan. "Reconsidering international comics: foreignness, locality, and the third space." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 5.(2014): 58–69. 
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Resource type: Journal Article
DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2013.842179
BibTeX citation key: Meneses2014
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Keywords: "Blacksad", "L’ascension du haut mal", Autobiography, Canales. Juan Díaz, Crime comics, David B., France, Guarnido. Juanjo, Spain (country)
Creators: Meneses
Collection: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
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Abstract
In this article, I propose the label ‘inter-national comics’ as an alternative to ‘international comics’. As it is currently understood, the notion of ‘international comics’ places a particular emphasis on the foreignness of works produced in other countries to the detriment of their reception by new readerships. Thus, the hyphenated ‘inter-national comics’ allows us to rethink the reciprocal relationship between the foreignness of a comic from another country and the locality of its new readership, bringing to the fore the exchange between nations that the hyphen emphasises. This ‘inter-national’ relationship, in addition, manifests formally within the very pages of certain works. This is the case of two world-renowned comics such as David B.’s Epileptic (2006) and Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s Blacksad (2005), which I read here as spaces in which a veritable encounter between nations occurs.
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