Graphics Adapter Research Articles

Interview with John Jennings, Featuring Alternate and Draft Panels from Kindred: the Graphic Novel Adaptation

Some of you might know that The Black Scholar has been lucky enough to have on our team the celebrated visual artist, John Jennings—one of the founders of the Black Speculative Arts Movement, and c...

Quando la pagina è un palcoscenico: i graphic novels shakespeariani di Gianni De Luca

The paper aims to examine the career of Gianni De Luca (1927-1991), a very talented illustrator who was able to deeply innovate the language of comics. It is particularly focused on his most original piece of work, the so-called “Shekespearean trilogy”, that is to say the graphic novel adaptations of three of Shakespeare’s plays – The Tempest, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet – that were published in the catholic magazine Il Giornalino in 1975 and 1976. To draw the “trilogy” De Luca resorted to a simple yet revolutionary storytelling in which the customary fragmentation of the page in panels and tiers progressively disappeared. The last of the three adaptations, Romeo and Juliet, is entirely composed of double splash pages, large panels that occupy both the pages that the reader has in front of his eyes. On this wide horizontal page the characters are drawn several times, in a series of poses meant to convey the idea of their motion in contrast with the stillness of the scenery. In order to precisely “decode” the page, the reader must simply follow their movements around: an unconventional yet effective use of the visual language of comics.In addition to the “Shakespearean trilogy”, the paper will also focus on Il commissario Spada, a successful comics series finely written by Gianluigi Gonano and beautifully drawn by De Luca that was published in Il Giornalino from 1970 to 1982.

A transcultural comic series caught between nationalism and globalisation

ABSTRACTGrant Morrison’s 18 Days, the Mahabharata is a graphic series adaptation of an Indian epic poem of monumental proportions with deeply religious and philosophical content. Yet the goal behind the series was not to create a regional, or even national product, but to create a series that would be understandable to a global audience. Instead of being a product of glocalisation, the comic series is an example of the Local going Global. As the authors behind the series explain, although the Mahabharata is one of the most interesting and complex stories in the world, it is generally unknown to Western audiences. To bring this unfamiliar story to a global audience, the writers had to create a familiar visual environment for the readers to recognise. The comic divested itself of traditional, cultural and geographical signifiers, which are important elements of Indian popular culture. By doing so, it created a non-essentialist representation available to a larger, global audience. Yet it created this familiar environment using problematic representations of differences.

An Interview with Van Jensen, author of <i>Casino Royale</i> (2018)

In March 2018, Dynamite Entertainment published a graphic novel adaptation of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. In the following interview, author Van Jensen speaks to Ellen J. Stockstill about the process of adapting Fleming's novel, some of the challenges of working with an iconic character like James Bond, Fleming's writing style, Bond's cultural relevance, and the ways in which Fleming's legacy lives on in different media.

Visualization of literary knowledge and the iComic turn: Towards a graphic history of Modern Greek literature

Abstract This article focuses on the visual representations of literary knowledge and the combination of visualized information with a didactical scope. It begins with a theoretical overview of current terms, such as visual, new (and multimodal) literacies, graphic and educational comics and visual adaptations of literary classics. Furthermore, the essay proposes the term iComic turn as a new term for the recent blooming of editions of graphic literary adaptations. The article subsequently focuses on examples of how comics could be integrated in the classroom presenting some draft sketches of A Graphic History of Modern Greek Literature.

Intensity-Based Nonoverlapping Area Registration Supporting "Drop-Outs" in Terms of Model-Based Radiostereometric Analysis.

A model-based radiostereometric analysis (MBRSA) is a method for precise measurement of prosthesis migration, which does not require marking the implant with tantalum beads. Instead, the prosthesis pose is typically recovered using a feature-based 2D-3D registration of its virtual model into a stereo pair of radiographs. In this study, we evaluate a novel intensity-based formulation of previously published nonoverlapping area (NOA) approach. The registration is capable of performing with both binary radiographic segmentations and nonsegmented X-ray images. In contrast with the feature-based version, it is capable of dealing with unreliable parts of prosthesis. As the straightforward formulation allows efficient acceleration using modern graphics adapters, it is possible to involve precise high-poly virtual models. Moreover, in case of binary segmentations, the nonoverlapping area is simply interpretable and useful for indicating the accuracy of the registration outcome. In silico and phantom evaluations were performed using a cementless Zweymüller femoral stem and its reverse engineered (RE) model. For initial pose estimates with difference from the ground-truth limited to ±4 mm and ±4°, respectively, the mean absolute translational error was not higher than 0.042 ± 0.035 mm. The error in rotation around the proximodistal axis was 0.181 ± 0.265°, and the error for the remaining axes was not higher than 0.035 ± 0.037°.

Marginal Representation Learning With Graph Structure Self-Adaptation.

Learning discriminative feature representations has shown remarkable importance due to its promising performance for machine learning problems. This paper presents a discriminative data representation learning framework by employing a simple yet powerful marginal regression function with probabilistic graphical structure adaptation. A marginally structured representation learning (MSRL) method is proposed by seamlessly incorporating distinguishable regression targets analysis, graph structure adaptation, and robust linear structural learning into a joint framework. Specifically, MSRL learns marginal regression targets from data rather than exploiting the conventional zero-one matrix that greatly hinders the freedom of regression fitness and degrades the performance of regression results. Meanwhile, an optimized graph regularization term with self-improving adaptation is constructed based on probabilistic connection knowledge to improve the compactness of the learned representation. Additionally, the regression targets are further predicted by utilizing the explanatory factors from the latent subspace of data, which can uncover the underlying feature correlations to enhance the reliability. The resulting optimization problem can be elegantly solved by an efficient iterative algorithm. Finally, the proposed method is evaluated by eight diverse but related tasks, including object, face, texture, and scene, categorization data sets. The encouraging experimental results and the explicit theoretical analysis demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed representation learning method in comparison with state-of-the-art algorithms.

Investigation of Unintentional Video Emanations From a VGA Connector in the Desktop Computers

This paper focuses on the compromising video emanations from a desktop computer with a liquid-crystal display (LCD). Near-field tests are performed in a common unshielded office environment to investigate the video information leakage, and the tests show that the video graphics adapter (VGA) connector is a leaking source. To illustrate the mechanism of the video leakage, a wire antenna model is developed according to the physical dimensions of the connector. The radiated fields of the connector are calculated in the time domain from this model, the results are verified by the tests. Combining the expressions of the radiated fields and the transfer function of the test probe, the function relationship between the original red/green/blue signal and the intercepted signal is established. Finally, a readable text is reconstructed from the intercepted signal when a Chinese document is displayed on the LCD.

Hysterical reality: Weimar Germany and the Victorian Gothic in Mattotti and Kramsky’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

ABSTRACTIn creating their graphic novel adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeDr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: A Graphic Novel, Italian comics creators Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky transposed the narrative from Victorian London to Weimar Germany. Mattotti has called the book ‘a voyage into Expressionist culture’, in which he drew on the work of Expressionist painters to create the highly varied visual style for the piece. Mattotti uses visual techniques from Expressionist art and film to create a grotesque vision of Hyde whose appearance is constantly in flux, reflecting Stevenson’s ambiguous descriptions of Hyde and making the character more frightening and unpredictable. The graphic novel incorporates the history and culture surrounding the Weimar Republic, particularly national and personal trauma in the wake of the First World War and anxieties regarding the rise of Nazism. By situating their adaptation of Stevenson’s novella in Weimar Germany, Mattotti and Kramsky blend key characteristics of the Gothic and Expressionism and take them to new extremes, both visually and narratively. This article examines Mattotti and Kramsky’s use of Stevenson’s novella as a lens through which to comment on Weimar Germany.

Millennial gothic. On Runberg, Homs and Carot’s graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy

ABSTRACTA modern classic and a true cross-media phenomenon, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy (2005-2007) has been filmed both in Sweden and in the U.S. and adapted into two graphic novel narratives . This article investigates the adaptation process from novel to graphic novel with reference to the second, Franco-Belgian, transposition in six volumes, scripted by Sylvain Runberg and drawn by José Homs and Manolo Carot (2013–2015). Special attention is given to the conceptual device of the ‘icon’ in adaptation studies, while the exploration of the gothic presence in the adaptation takes two directions. First, it seeks to discuss the graphic novel creators’ choice of magnifying Salander’s goth persona and the visual glossary at work in the representation of the girl with the gothic attire. Second, it draws attention to the ways in which the adaptation relies on the specificities of the comics format in visualising what has been identified as 'the gothic core' of Larsson's trilogy.

Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture

Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture

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‘. . . But Is It Literature?’

As a hybrid between ‘high’ literature and ‘trivial’ comics, graphic adaptations have been the subject of extensive debate in Germany. This article discusses the specific cultural conditions of graphic adaptation in Germany, which have been influenced by a process of emancipation from deeply rooted prejudice against comics as a medium of popular culture. To illustrate the changes brought about by the term ‘graphic novel’ around 2000, this article analyses two examples of a newer generation of graphic adaptation in detail. Flix’s Faust (2009–2010) and Drushba Pankow’s Das Fräulein von Scuderi [Mademoiselle de Scudery] (2011) represent a new self-confident approach to classic literature, but they also reflect on their own status as adaptations and thus contribute to ‘closing the gap’ between ‘high’ and popular culture.

Narrativity and Sound in German Radio Play Adaptations of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy

In line with the strong emphasis on visuality in the wake of the “visual turn” in literary and cultural studies, graphic novel adaptations of literary texts have recently been the objects of scholarly study and narratological theory building. Much less attention, if any, has been accorded to radio play adaptations of novels like Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy . An analysis of radio play adaptations acquires a special significance in the case of this highly enigmatic work, which makes a seriously playful use of postmodern narrative strategies. It is perhaps above all this feature which made the adaptation of the novel’s first instalment, City of Glass , into a graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazucchelli so successful. While the graphic novel visualizes characteristic features of its mother text, this paper explores the different modes of narrative sound in three German radio play adaptations of Auster’s novel. Alfred Behrens’ Stadt aus Glas , Katharina Bihler’s Schlagschatten , and Norbert Schaeffer’s Hinter verschlossenen Turen employ narrative devices like voices in both German and English, the evocation of city soundscapes, the narrative uses of music as well as issues of the simultaneity and/or difference of story and discourse time. The narrative auralization of Auster’s novels in the radio plays under discussion can be shown to foreground non-visual aspects of the pre-texts and to add further dimensions for interpretation that underline the usefulness of audionarratological analysis for adaptation studies.

Анализ сборника графических адаптаций рассказов А. Платонова «Цветы на земле»

Анализ сборника графических адаптаций рассказов А. Платонова «Цветы на земле»

Mohr Circle-based Graphical Vibration Analysis and Earthquake Response of Asymmetric Systems

The maximum seismic response of torsionally coupled plan asymmetric structures can be rationally visualized and computed through a Mohr Circle Response Spectrum Analysis (MCRSA). This is done combining the graphic modal properties of the torsional dynamic equations of motion with the structural earthquake demand in terms of a displacement spectrum as a function of the modal eigenvalues SD(ω2). A compact representation of the modal properties and of the response envelope is built and visualized in the Mohr plane. The maximum modal responses are then combined using a graphic adaptation of the SRSS and CCQ combination rules based on the elastic response spectrum. This Graphic Dynamic rule proves to be an effective response prediction tool, and is particularly suited to estimate the response of seismic base isolation systems.

Now I “See”: The Impact of Graphic Novels on Reading Comprehension in High School English Classrooms

ABSTRACTFew empirical studies have been conducted to investigate the educational uses of graphic novels. Because of this, misconceptions and stereotypes exist. This article presents findings from a study examining the effects of graphic novels on high school students’ (N = 217) reading comprehension. A graphic adaptation of a traditionally taught text (Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”) was explored as (a) a replacement text and (b) a supplemental text. The study design utilized a factorial analysis of variance with three independent variables: text type, grade level, and gender. A reading comprehension test was developed to serve as the dependent variable. Findings indicated significant effects for all factors. At the conclusion of the study, post interviews were conducted to elicit students’ and teachers’ perceptions of interacting with the graphic text.

Visualising caste: A Gardener in the Wasteland and the politics of graphic adaptation

In this article, I look at the graphic adaptation of Phule’s Gulamgiri (1873) (also known as Slavery) and argue how visuality offers a unique approach in the understanding of caste in contemporary Indian society. I explain how the genre, through its pictorial description, extends Gulamgiri’s critique of Hinduism by including modern-day debates over caste discrimination. Some of the questions that I discuss in the article include: the necessity of adaptation of a nineteenth-century historical text through the medium of a very nascent contemporary Indian genre; why the issue of caste that has been exhaustively discussed and had stood strong throughout time is being revived by contemporary writers; how the narration in graphic novel form reconfigures (or resembles) the original text and, lastly, does the graphic novel help or hinder in conveying the holistic understanding of the problem of caste from Phule to present times.

On the graphic adaptation of proper names in the first Romanian translation of the Septuagint (Ms. 45)

Among the difficulties that have always challenged the translators of the Bible one can mention the adaptation of proper names in each idiom. Certain biblical proper names were adapted into Romanian when the first translations of fragments belonging to the Old and the New Testaments were performed. However, most biblical proper names were adapted into Romanian for the first time in the translation of the Septuagint performed by Nicolae Spătarul (Milescu) in the second half of the 17th century and preserved in a manuscript copy (the Romanian manuscript no. 45) from the same century. The main source of this translation was an edition of the Septuagint issued in Frankfurt in 1597. In accordance with the spirit of literalism in Bible translation in that period, the main tendency of translators and reviewers was to preserve, as much as possible, the original form of proper names as they appeared in the source-text, attempting, at the same time, to integrate them in the formal system (graphy, declension) of the Romanian language. Starting from the formal particularities of the names in the source-text, we aim at describing certain aspects related to the graphic principles that the transposition of proper names from the Greek source into Ms. 45 was based upon.

THE BORROWINGS AND THE PROCESS OF GLOBALIZATION (FRENCH-ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONTACT)

The desire for economic unity of the world, for the globalization, leads to the tendency of is its linguistic unity. In recent years, the experts notice that such objective factor as the prevalence of the Internet has led to the oversimplification of some world’s languages and to the baseless clogging of them with English Term. It is certain, that borrowing within reason is fully justified. However, when such borrowing leads to severe morphological, syntactic or phonetic changes and causes harm to linguistic system of the language that borrows such borrowing is baseless and harmful. The analysis of English borrowings reveals the following four types of lexical borrowing: integrated, hybrid, false loan and tracing. Integral borrowing is reduced to unchanged borrowing of the form and content of a word or phrase, without any graphic adaptation (or adaptation). A hybrid borrowed includes borrowed meaning with partial borrowing of structure of foreign words. False borrowings are reduced to formal borrowing of components that allow to create a new word when neither form nor value are not fixed in the language from which this term is borrowed. Therefore, the French often has words which combining English components do not comply with the lexical meaning of English terms. There are a lots of such terms in the French vocabulary. Tracing involves semantic, morphological and idioms tracing. In fact, morphological tracing integrates a borrowed English meaning of a word by literal translation: supermarché–supermarket. Used as synonyms such borrowings allow the user to highlight his views, approaches and enrich his own vocabulary. Phraseological tracing is often called idiomatic tracing. In this case English phraseological units meet their French equivalents. Semantic tracing consists of imposition of borrowed meaning on the words which already exist in the language that borrows. Syntactic tracing reduced to borrowing of syntactical structure of English language. Phonetic tracing reduced to preserving of English pronunciation. The internationalization of many English terms makes the communication in sphere of science, technology and production easier. That is, borrowing from other languages is absolutely justified if it doesn’t lead to clogging of a language and doesn’t disrupt the structural integrity of a language, that borrows and doesn’t do harm to its evolutionary development. Key words : globalization; borrowing; tracing; analysis.