Comic Series Research Articles

The Influence of Comic Media in Learning Dudaya Arts for Students at SMA Negeri 1 Soromandi

This research is experimental research, with the aim of designing comic arts and culture media, knowing the influence of comic media in learning arts and culture among students at SMA Negeri 1 Soromandi and students' responses to comic media. The population in this study was class X students of SMA Negeri 1 Soromandi for the 2024/2025 academic year and the research sample was class Samples were taken using purposive sampling technique. Data on students' concept mastery was obtained using a concept mastery test and student response data was collected using a questionnaire. Student concept mastery data was analyzed using the t-test and student response data was analyzed using five scale absolute norms. In this research, 3 series of Arts and Culture comics have been produced. The results of the analysis show that there is a difference in learning arts and culture through comic media for experimental class and control class students at a significance level of 5% with a value of t'= 3.026 and this value is not in the interval - 2.02, <t' <2.02. This means that comic media in arts and culture learning has an influence on improving the learning of class X students at SMA Negeri 1 Soromandi. while the analysis and questionnaire showed that students responded positively to learning arts and culture using comic media with a percentage of 53.84%

Fidelity, focalization and nostalgia: The audio adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman

Neil Gaiman’s superhero comic series The Sandman had never officially been adapted to any other medium when Audible released the first instalment of its audio drama series in 2020. This article reads that adaptation in the context of current media nostalgia trends while paying special attention to the production choices guided by fans’ affective engagement with popular texts. I will look at some of the adaptation strategies used to turn the comic’s verbal text and its visuals into speech and sound. The focus will be twofold. Firstly, I will explore how questions of fidelity can be applied to this comic-to-audio case, by investigating how the Sandman adaptation’s faithfulness to its source text relates to the way in which the audio drama taps into the audience’s nostalgic engagement with the text. Secondly, my reading also contributes to narratological debates over the use of focalization in both comics and audio narratives. To unpack the shifts in focalization and narrative perspective that occur between comic and audio play, I will zoom in on the function of the comic’s omniscient narrator as it translates into the audio adaptation.

EFEKTIVITAS MEMBACA KOMIK DAN METODE STORYTELLING DALAM MENINGKATKAN PENGETAHUAN SISWA TENTANG SARAPAN SEHAT

House Breakfast should be a healthy breakfast. A healthy breakfast contains the nutrients the body needs to carry out daily physical activities, increases endurance and supports children's growth. The aim of this research is to analyze the effectiveness of health education, reading comics and storytelling methods, in increasing students' knowledge about healthy breakfasts. This research is quasi-experimental research with a nonequivalent control group design. A sample of 45 students was taken using quota sampling technique. The sample was divided into 3 groups (intervention group 1, intervention group 2 and control group), each group had 15 respondents. The reason for the number 15 is because it considers the effectiveness of small group health education. The comic media used in this research is the health literacy comic series published by Pendidikan.id. The results of the research showed that there was an increase in students' knowledge after health education had a p-value of 0.000. Comic reading education and storytelling method comic education are equally effective in increasing students' knowledge. Comics are an alternative educational media that is suitable for elementary school children.

The Slow Apocalypse in The Low, Low Woods

The comics series The Low, Low Woods is set in the fictional former coal‑mining town of Shudder‑to‑Think, Pennsylvania. While the mines have long been abandoned, their variegated effects, from poverty to environmental destruction, still haunt the region. This article suggests that The Low, Low Woods identifies a convergence between the exploitation of the natural world, a coal industry on the brink of collapse, and a fragile form of (white) hypermasculinity that promotes a violent and race‑ as well as class‑specific idea of local identity that two teenage, queer women from ethnic minority backgrounds begin to challenge.

Peperini : A Comics Series for Young Readers by Diabolo Edizioni

Abstract: Italian comics are increasingly present in bookshops and newsstands alike. Evolving into a new, book-like format—with its associated legitimacy—this medium tries to appeal to young readers who are used to reading picturebooks. Among these newly emerging Italian comics is Diabolo Edizioni’s Peperini series—a prime example of formal and thematic innovation.

Prozaiczna codzienność superbohaterów, czyli analiza komiksowej serii Karla Ferdona

The Prosaic Everyday Life of Superheroes, or Some Remarks About Karl Ferdon’s Comic Series The article discusses a parody comic series by Chilean cartoonist Karlo Ferdon which depicts American superheroes in prosaic day-to-day situations. The author shows how placing iconic pop culture characters in an unexpected context can lead to their deconstruction and demythologization.

Blackening the Frame: Kerry James Marshall's Rythm Mastr

ABSTRACTThis essay argues Marshall is “blackening the frame” with his African‐centric comic series Rythm Mastr. The series is a corrective to the overwhelming whiteness of canonical comics and the silencing and erasure of Black people in American popular culture and fine art. Through the incorporation of Yoruba figures within the superhero genre, Marshall explores Black history and reframes American popular culture towards an African‐oriented future as part of a broader insurgence among Black comic creators.

Through the Eyes of the T. rex: Animal Behavior in Dinosaur Fiction

Animal point-of-view fiction (also sometimes called “xenofiction”) is a niche genre that emerged in the modern era. Both prose fiction and comics told from an animal point-of-view can offer unique insights into cultural understandings of animal behavior, nature, and the environment more broadly. This article delves specifically into dinosaur point-of-view fiction, which at times has even been written by or with support from professional paleontologists. Through several popular examples of dinosaur fiction and comics published from the 1990s to the 2010s, this article will examine how these texts illustrate how fictional representations of scientific understandings conform to or challenge dominant narratives around the natural world, gender, and power. These stories, including Stephen Bissette’s unfinished comic series Tyrant (1993–1996), and Robert Bakker’s novel Raptor Red (1995), and most recently Tadd Galusha’s graphic novel Cretaceous (2019), use creative storytelling techniques to entertain readers, while also representing and participating in scientific discourses of paleontology and animal behavior.

The Transformative Magic of Education in Walt Disney’s <em>The Sword in the Stone</em>

The Transformative Magic of Education in Walt Disney’s <em>The Sword in the Stone</em>

Iklan One Piece We Are One Episode 2 Dalam Kerangka Analisis Semiotik Roland Barthes

In this research, the writer chose the object of an advertisement for a phenomenal comic series, namely One Piece. The results of the study show that from the denotative side tells about the life of urban residents in the city center, from the connotative side it equality and from the mythical side it conveys the influence of the One Piece story on women's enthusiasm in realizing dreams. The results of the study also found 5 Roland Barthes narrative codes, including: hermeneutic code used in the dialogue about people who’ve never read One Piece mean they haven’t truly live. Proairetic code is used influence reading One Piece. Semantic code is in the description of the main character's work. Symbolic code can be seen in the antithesis of the main character's character, namely the nature of his partner. The cultural code is found in the depiction of the main character and his partner who live together even though they are not married.

#WomanWorld Post-Feminism?

#WomanWorld is an instagram comic series created by @aminder_d with the sci-fi comedy genre by presenting the lives of a group of women who struggle for their survival in the post-extinction world of men. The #WomanWorld comic presents a series of characters who represent freedom of expression by carrying the feminist concept from the first wave to the post-feminist phase. With technology and social media networks, as well as the fourth wave feminism movement has been started, this study examines the extent of the content of feminism and post-feminism in this comic. Netnography and Textual Analysis are a method to know which one is Feminism and Post-feminism contained in this comic. This article shows how the storyline and characters in comics represent the concept of first to third wave feminism. By using post-feminism conceptual dialogue, this comic reverses its axis by creating an understanding that the desired world of women has been created, women are no longer struggling to get choices of life.

Beyond Maus: The Legacy of Holocaust Comics, ed.Ole Frahm Hans-Joachim Hahn, and Markus Streb

Beyond Maus is based on proceedings from a 2019 three-day international conference held at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz in Austria. It brings together seventeen essays, some of which are new. Clearly, the drive to explore the wide field of what one might consider “Holocaust comics” feels urgent. The medium is now helping to shape contemporary conversations about the role and impact of art and literature. As Kalina Kupczyńska reports in her chapter, in 2009, the Auschwitz-Bikenau Museum even commissioned an educational comics series, Episodes from Auschwitz. Further, research continues to shed light on image-making practices both during and after the Holocaust, by artists, survivors, and non-survivors alike, which capture information and experiences, revealing deep traditions of drawing as a form of witnessing. Examples include Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, arguably the world’s most famous graphic novel. The series, published in two volumes in 1986 and 1991, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992.

The remaking of revolutionary literature: a comic series on peasant uprising in the post-revolutionary era

The remaking of revolutionary literature: a comic series on peasant uprising in the post-revolutionary era

A comic based interactive digital intervention to enhance facilitation skills of nurse mentors in public facilities – results of a pilot intervention in Bihar, India

ABSTRACT Background Various trainings are designed to educate nurses to become simulation educators. However, there are no good strategies to sustain their learnings and keep them engaged. We developed a series of 10 interactive digital storytelling comic episodes ‘ The Adventures of Super Divya (SD)’ to strengthen simulation educator’s facilitation knowledge, skills, confidence, and engagement. This endline evaluation presents results on the change in knowledge after watching the episodes and retention of that knowledge over 10 months. Objectives The objectives of this pilot study are to: 1) assess the change in knowledge between the baseline and post-episode surveys; and 2) understand the retention of knowledge between the post-episode and the endline survey. Methods A human-centred design was used to create the episodes grounded in the lived experience of nurse simulation educators. The heroine of the comic is Divya, a ‘Super Facilitator’ and her nemesis is Professor Agni who wants to derail simulation as an educational strategy inside obstetric facilities. Professor Agni’s schemes represent real-life challenges; and SD uses effective facilitation and communication to overcome them. The episodes were shared with a group of nurse mentors (NM) and nurse mentor supervisors (NMS) who were trained to be champion simulation educators in their own facilities. To assess change in knowledge, we conducted a baseline, nine post-episode surveys and an endline survey between May 2021 and February 2022. Results A total 110 NM and 50 NMS watched all 10 episodes and completed all of the surveys. On average, knowledge scores increased by 7–9 percentage points after watching the episodes. Comparison of survey responses obtained between 1 and 10 months suggest that the gain in knowledge was largely retained over time. Conclusions Findings suggest that this interactive comic series was successful in a resource limited setting at engaging simulation educators and helped to maintain their facilitation knowledge over time.

The YGetIt? Program: A Mobile Application, PEEP, and Digital Comic Intervention to Improve HIV Care Outcomes for Young Adults.

In New York State (NYS), young adults account for the largest number of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections and struggle to seek and remain in HIV care. Digital interventions and access to peer support have demonstrated positive influences on the HIV care continuum and health outcomes. The New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH) developed YGetIt? (YGI) that combines a mobile application, GET!, peer navigation (PEEPs), and a compelling digital comic series, "Tested," to facilitate the timely entry of young people into HIV care, to prevent vulnerable youth from dropping out of care, and to achieve sustained viral load suppression among those in care. This article describes the development and early implementation of the YGI digital intervention. Intervention Design. GET! provided a high level of confidentiality and security, ease of access, and Wi-Fi accessibility. YGI enrolled 113 HIV-positive participants from a clinical setting who were individually randomized at a 1:1 ratio to receive access to GET! plus PEEPs (n = 53) or the app alone (n = 60). For recruitment, staff and organization buy-in was essential to the success of the intervention, and building relationships was critical. GET! development was an iterative process. Peer Engagement Educator Professionals (PEEPs) who were tech savvy, representative of the priority population, and had shared life experience with participants were most impactful. Interest in apps declines over time and participants in the APP alone arm were less engaged. GET! is a communication and engagement tool that supports HIV care and may serve as a model for like digital interventions.

Anthologising COVID: an Interview with Kendra Boileau and Michael Green

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly one of the most significant bio-socio-economic crisis of the early 21st century. Amid the fear, anger, hope, anxiety, disorientation, and uncertainty of the times, Graphic Mundi published COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology (2021), and Distant Connections published a comic series titled The Lockdown Lowdown. COVID Chronicles, edited by Kendra Boileau and Rich Johnson, includes 64 mini-comics from 70 contributors and offers an insight into the various lived experiences of the pandemic. Similarly, The Lockdown Lowdown series comprising of two zines and a special issue (on women and COVID-19), features artists from diverse backgrounds and geographical locations (such as Europe, the USA, and China), exploring the challenges and possibilities within the new normal. Taking these cues, Kendra Boileau and Michael Green share their experience of anthologising COVID comics through an email interview. The interview is divided into two parts. In Part A, titled ‘Suddenly our world changed completely,’ Boileau and Green answer questions common to both of them, and in Part B, titled ‘When can we give grandad a hug?’ they answer questions specific to the anthologies in discussion while also giving the reader a peek into their creative/editorial processes.

Listening to The Intrepid Alix: audio experience of a classical bande dessinée

Although digitization and transmedia storytelling broaden our sensory experience of comics nowadays, adaptation and merchandising have long been offered similar opportunities. As Ian Hague’s book Comics and the Senses has pointed out, admitting the obviousness that “materiality matters” implies “challenging the idea that comics are a purely visual medium.” Engaging Hague’s proposition, this article focuses on a “Disque d’aventure” produced by Festival, a French record label, in 1960: Alix l’intrépide. The first episode in the French-language comics series Alix by Jacques Martin, The Intrepid Alix, had been serialized in Tintin magazine (1948-49), then released as a comics album (1956), before being adapted by Jean Maurel into an audiobook on LP vinyl record (1960). As a first step towards a multisensory approach to comics, this article deals with the sound dimension of the comic strip and the audiobook. Analysis of the record broadens our understanding of the audio experience of The Intrepid Alix. However, we will see that it cannot be considered simply as a soundtrack to the comic. Indeed, I will demonstrate that The Intrepid Alix does not need an audiobook edition in order to integrate a sound experience.

THE STRANGER AMONG US IN COMICS FROM CUTEZĂTORII MAGAZINE. CONSTRUCTING CHILDREN’S POLITICAL IDENTITIES THROUGH INTERACTION WITH THE OTHER IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA

A product of popular culture, comics are in tune with the societal context that created them. This article aims to present the hegemonic narrative, reading and messages of comics for communist pioneers in Cutezătorii [The Daring Ones] Magazine. To do so, the research material considered is made up of two comics focused on Otherness and Romanians’ relationships with state institutions close to the political factor. Qualitative content analysis was performed on both text and images. Findings uncovered a partial view of communist Romania and of the workings of propaganda, because, beside their entertainment value, these comics can be read as political texts or statements. These comics show how the political elite perceived those who wanted to leave Romania (illegally) and those who, of foreign origin, visited this country. Both comics series glorify the collaboration with the Militia, the State Security, and their surveillance methods (through technology and responsible employees and citizens). Communist pioneers are plain clothes detectives who help these institutions to gather their information, catch criminals, and keep the society under control. Because cultural representations impacted the Romanian society in multiple ways during the totalitarian communist rule, a critical reconsidering of cultural products of the past is necessary in order to better understand the present.

The Effect of Herringbone Technique on The Students’ Achievement in Reading Narrative Text at Smas Budisatrya in Academic Years Of 2021/2022

The objective of this research is finding out whether or not there is significant The Effect of Using Herringbone Technique on Students’ Achievemenet in Reading Narrative Text at the second semester of the grade of SMAS Budisatrya Medan in academic year 2021/2022.Reading comprehension is the ability to get comprehension, including to recognize the unfamiliar words or sentence in the text. Comic series is one of media that uses some comics related to the story given. These comics has function to describe the story. It is an appropriate media to be taught in Senior High School level to open up their mind widely by reading passage.
 There were two variables in this research. The independent variable is the word herringbone technique (X) and dependent variable is the students’ reading comprehension (Y). The research methodology in this research is Quasi experimental design with experimental and control class. The population of this research is the eight grade of SMAS Budisatrya Medan. In determining the sampling technique. The samples of research were 2 classes VIII A consisted of 15 students while in VIII B consisted 15 students. In collecting the data, there were pre-test and post-test and instrument. After giving the post-test ,the researcher analyzed the data of research .
 From the result, it was obtained that t-count is higher than t-critical (46 >39,33). Therefore, there is significant influence of using series pictures towards students’ reading comprehension in narrative text at the second semester of the eleven grade of SMAS Budisatrya Medan in academic year 2021/2-2022.

A deficient presence

Abstract The collaboration between the visual and textual narrative in comics, richly loaded with cultural codes and background, leads to challenges in translation. Cultural transference in comics is inevitably obstructed and distorted. Even readers who understand both the source and target language may need help comprehending the entire narrative, not to mention monolingual readers. In an international city like Hong Kong, where cultures coexist independently yet interrelatedly, the incomprehensiveness of the translated version of Old Master Q Chinese Idioms LOL (2012) is instantly recognized by bilingual Chinese-English readers. A problematic transposition of semiotic and cultural knowledge and a disrupted interplay between the textual and visual narratives causes incomprehension. The translation of this comic series becomes even more challenging to achieve the clear intent of edutainment. This article will argue that translated comics will appear deficient to monolingual and bilingual readers even if they are equipped with the semiotic knowledge of the source and target language. The translation of multimodal texts is considerably constrained by a chain effect triggered by posting changes to any element in comics – a syncretic semiotic environment.