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Fresnault-Deruelle, Pierre. "A Visit from Philippulus." European Comic Art 10. (2017): 48–65. Added by: joachim (11/12/2017, 14:32) Last edited by: joachim (11/12/2017, 14:36) |
Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.3167/eca.2017.100204 BibTeX citation key: FresnaultDeruelle2017 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Belgium, Dream, Ethnicity, Fantastic, Hergé, Politics, Remi. Georges, Semiotics Creators: Fresnault-Deruelle Collection: European Comic Art |
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‘Scenariographics’ is defined as the deployment of the (non-specific) codes of the medium by individual comics artists in order to achieve effects that are specific to their work and therefore difficult to transpose to any other medium. L’Étoile mystérieuse is used as a case study: a close reading of Hergé’s comic demonstrates how the artist creates a complex semiological web, drawing upon the resources of comics syntax and layout, onomatopoeia and emanata, visual metaphor, infra-narrative elements and intertextual motifs, blurring boundaries between dream life (more often nightmares) and wakefulness, realism and the fantastic. Moreover, through the coexistence and transposition of different levels of reality, including the everyday, the supernatural and the psychic, Hergé creates meanings that have political resonance in an album produced for a collaborationist newspaper.
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