TY - BOOK AU - Aldama,Frederick Luis AU - Bennett,Tamryn AU - Hayton,Christopher J. AU - Hayton,Janardana D. AU - Heimermann,Mark AU - Kauranen,Ralf AU - Luis Aldama,Frederick AU - Marks,Clifford AU - Marshall,C.W. AU - Nobis,James G. AU - Pellegrin,Annick AU - Robertson Wojcik,Pamela AU - Saguisag,Lara AU - Tullis,Brittany AU - Whitted,Qiana TI - Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics T2 - World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series SN - 9781477311639 AV - HQ784.C6 P53 2017 PY - 2021///] CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - Children in literature KW - Children KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - History and criticism KW - Children-Comic books, strips, etc.-History and criticism KW - Comic books and children KW - Social aspects KW - Youth KW - Youth-Comic books, strips, etc.-History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Putting Childhood Back into World Comics: A Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Bridging Comics Studies and Childhood Studies --; Chapter One. Little Orphan Annie as Streetwalker --; Chapter Two. Competent Children and Social Cohesion: Representations of Childhood in Home Front Propaganda Comics during World War II in Finland --; Chapter Three. In the Minority: Constructions of American Dream Childhood in 1950s–Early 1960s Little Audrey Comics --; Chapter Four. Comics and Emmett Till --; Chapter Five. Out of the Mouths of Babes: Mafalda’s Interrogation of the Argentine Angel in the House --; Chapter Six. Sex, Comix, and Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Zap Comix’s Attack on the American Mainstream --; Chapter Seven. RAW and Little Lit: Resisting and Redefining Children’s Comics --; Chapter Eight. Lolicon: Adolescent Fetishization in Osamu Tezuka’s Ayako --; Chapter Nine. Wise beyond Her Years: How Persepolis Introjects the Adult into the Child --; Chapter Ten. Vehlmann, or the End of Innocence: Lessons in Cruelty in Seuls and Jolies ténèbres --; Chapter Eleven. Zeno, Childhood, and The Three Paradoxes --; Chapter Twelve. Dancing with Demons: Consciousness and Identity in the Comics of Lynda Barry --; Chapter Thirteen. The Grotesque Child: Animal-Human Hybridity in Sweet Tooth --; List of Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault’s Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo, and Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie to Hergé’s Tintin (Belgium), José Escobar’s Zipi and Zape (Spain), and Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz (Germany), iconic child characters have given both kids and adults not only hours of entertainment but also an important vehicle for exploring children’s lives and the sometimes challenging realities that surround them. Bringing together comic studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection of essays provides the first wide-ranging account of how children and childhood, as well as the larger cultural forces behind their representations, have been depicted in comics from the 1930s to the present. The authors address issues such as how comics reflect a spectrum of cultural values concerning children, sometimes even resisting dominant cultural constructions of childhood; how sensitive social issues, such as racial discrimination or the construction and enforcement of gender roles, can be explored in comics through the use of child characters; and the ways in which comics use children as metaphors for other issues or concerns. Specific topics discussed in the book include diversity and inclusiveness in Little Audrey comics of the 1950s and 1960s, the fetishization of adolescent girls in Japanese manga, the use of children to build national unity in Finnish wartime comics, and how the animal/child hybrids in Sweet Tooth act as a metaphor for commodification UR - https://doi.org/10.7560/311615 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477311639 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477311639/original ER -