{"product_id":"comics-and-childrens-magazines-9781041245407","title":"Comics and Childrens Magazines","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eComics and serial print have a long, closely intertwined history, with the earliest comics proliferating in newspapers before gradually migrating to childrenâs magazines. In positioning itself between the booming research on comics and periodicals and comics and childrenâs culture, this book offers a transnational perspective on the diverse connections between the ninth art and magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the heyday of childrenâs periodicals and their incorporation of comics since the late nineteenth century in the UK, the book ends with a survey of paratextual reader engagement in \u003ci\u003eTopolino \u003c\/i\u003eissues until the 2010s. Its eight chapters showcase different possibilities for analysing vast, serial corpora, ranging from thematic and formal approaches to more distant readings mapping evolutions across magazine issues. It covers the impact of American comics on the \u003ci\u003eCorriere dei Piccoli \u003c\/i\u003emagazines from the 1920s and 1930s, forms of editorial communication in French and Belgian magazines from the 1930s and 1940s, the interplay of artistic pursuit, commercial needs, and national identity in the American \u003ci\u003eCamera Comics \u003c\/i\u003efrom the mid-1940s, the comics scare in Italy read through the Italian Western comic \u003ci\u003ePecos Bill, \u003c\/i\u003ethe changing editorial policies of French magazine \u003ci\u003eLisette\u003c\/i\u003e, and the construction of post-war national identity in Greek comics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of great interest to comic and childrenâs literature enthusiasts along with researchers of comic studies, cultural studies, literature and art. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Graphic Novels and Comics.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515623956823,"sku":"9781041245407","price":137.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/comics-and-childrens-magazines-9781041245407","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}