Picturing Childhood

Youth in Transnational Comics

Mark Heimermann, Brittany Tullis, Frederick Luis Aldama

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English

University of Texas Press
01 March 2017

Children's literature studies: general; Graphic novels: history & criticism

Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series

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 Herge's Tintin (Belgium), Jose 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.

Foreword by: Frederick Luis Aldama
Edited by: Mark Heimermann, Brittany Tullis
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781477311622
ISBN 10: 1477311629
Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 01 March 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Heimermann holds a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Brittany Tullis is an assistant professor of Spanish and women and gender studies at St. Ambrose University.

Reviews for Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics

Picturing Childhood is a much needed and long-awaited interdisciplinary project that looks at representations of children throughout the history of comics. * Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature *