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Researcher

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

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Awards & Distinctions

59 Results

2025

All click and no play? Game comics, comic games, and user agency

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A1 Journal Article in NEW REVIEW OF HYPERMEDIA AND MULTIMEDIA

As time goes by : fumetto e ricezione nostalgica

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in CARTE SEMIOTICHE

Calypsis : submerged worlds and post-apocalyptic subjectivities in contemporary comics

Giorgio Busi RizziLorenzo Di Paola

A2 Journal Article in BETWEEN (CAGLIARI)

COme VIte Distanti : comics as ethnography depicting vulnerable communities during COVID-19

Alessia MangiavillanoGiorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in EUROPEAN COMIC ART

Cómic y novela

Giorgio Busi RizziBenoît GlaudeEva Van de Wiele

Bookchapter in El cómic y las artes : acercamientos interdisciplinares

De beste strips om in te lijsten : onze redacteuren kiezen hun toppers van 2025

Eva Van de WieleGiorgio Busi RizziLou BraibantKin Wai ChuKai Qing Tan

Digital comics as participatory Gesamtkunstwerk : Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Bookchapter in New approaches to transcodification : literature, arts, and media

Digitalian comics : Italian digital comics’ path from national tradition to platform society

Giorgio Busi RizziLorenzo Di Paola

Bookchapter in Italian comics in the new millennium, vol. 2 : new scenarios, new forms, new themes

Disaster is my muse : the legacy of underground comix in contemporary refugee comics

Alessia MangiavillanoGiorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in SIMULTANEA (BLOOMINGTON, IND.)

Domesticating American serial characters in European children’s comics magazines : the case of Corriere dei Piccoli in the 1910s

Eva Van de Wiele

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS

Editorial : comics and children’s magazines

Maaheen AhmedGiorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS

Ghosts of our lives : a hauntological reading of multiverse fiction in contemporary verbo-visual media

Giorgio Busi RizziLorenzo Di Paola

A2 Journal Article in CINERGIE

L'uomo che guarda : operationalizing the male gaze in comics

Giorgio Busi RizziManuela Di Franco

Richard McGuire, Qui (2014)

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Bookchapter in Osservazioni sul romanzo contemporaneo : materiali e strumenti per lo studio del romanzo dopo il 2000

Silvia Baroni, Leggere la letteratura illustrata. Pratiche e voci (1830-1890), Milano, edizioni del verri, 2024, 174 pp., € 18,00

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

2024

Benoît Crucifix, Drawing from the archives : comics memory in the contemporary graphic novel

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

For real : il fumetto italiano tra realtà e realismo

Le parole e le immagini : i Comics Studies, la transmedialità e la paraletteratura

Giorgio Busi RizziChiara Simone

A2 Journal Article in NARRATIVA (NANTERRE)

Mon semblable, mon frère : identity needs, imaginary, and aesthetics in Marco and Antonio Manetti’s Diabolik Trilogy

Giorgio Busi RizziLorenzo Di PaolaRodolfo Dal Canto

A2 Journal Article in CINERGIE

Nostalgia in comics and graphic novels

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Bookchapter in The Routledge handbook of nostalgia

Positioning Peanuts : Linus, Charlie, and the making of auteur comics magazines in Italy and France (1965-1975)

Giorgio Busi RizziSara Zanetti

Post-apocalyptic and integrated? A mediological analysis of Gipi’s La terra dei figli

Lorenzo Di PaolaGiorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in FUTURI (NAPOLI)

The networked author : looking at contemporary authorship through postdigital comics

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in ANGLICA (WARSZAWA)

TransComics : banda desenhada/HQ e resistência à simplificação de género

Nicoletta MandoliniGiorgio Busi Rizzi

Bookchapter in Existir e resistir na sociedade contemporânea : contributos para o debate sobre comunicação e cultura

Truth, as only a liar can tell it : evolutions and tensions of self-narratives in comics, from Andrea Pazienza’s Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo to Gipi’s LMVDM : la mia vita disegnata male

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A1 Journal Article in ITALIAN STUDIES

Vivere per raccontarla : esperienza, narrazione ed elaborazione del lutto in S. di Gipi

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Bookchapter in For real : il fumetto italiano tra realtà e realismo

2023

All click and no play : how interactive are interactive digital comics?

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Brazilian trans artivism, comics and communities, between digital and print : the cases of pequenas felicidades trans and transistorizada

Nicoletta MandoliniGiorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in EUROPEAN COMIC ART

Comics strike back! Digital forms, digital practices, digital audiences

Giorgio Busi RizziLorenzo Di PaolaNicoletta Mandolini

A2 Journal Article in STUDIES IN COMICS

Digital comics : an old/new form

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Bookchapter in The Cambridge companion to comics

Do AIs dream of electric comics? Generative AI models, digital memory, and creativity

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Effetto di passato : strategie cognitive ed estetiche della nostalgia nel fumetto contemporaneo

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in CARTE SEMIOTICHE

Emanuela Piga Bruni, La macchina fragile : l’inconscio artificiale fra letteratura, cinema e televisione

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

From private to public : Alain Van Passen's collection at Ghent University (translated by M. Ahmed, B. Crucifix and G. Busi Rizzi)

Philippe CapartMaaheen AhmedBenoit CrucifixGiorgio Busi Rizzi

Great Scott! Adaptive dynamics of the Scott Pilgrim franchise from the comics to the Netflix series

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in FUNES

Internet, the paradise lost of comics? Observations on the constraints behind publishing webcomics, based on interviews with francophone authors

Gaëlle KovalivGiorgio Busi Rizzi

Text translation

Projecting, connecting, reconfiguring : nostalgic and antinostalgic features in Richard McGuire’s 'Here'

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in COMPARATISMI (MILANO)

Remediation processes and reading protocols : a genealogy of digital comics

Giorgio Busi RizziLorenzo Di Paola

A2 Journal Article in STUDIES IN COMICS

Stranger Kings : horror, passato, adolescenza e storyworld espansi, da Hawkins a Portland

Lorenzo Di PaolaGiorgio Busi Rizzi

Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge? Comics as a nexus to Italian youth media cultures and generational imaginaries

Giorgio Busi RizziLorenzo Di Paola

A2 Journal Article in ELEPHANT AND CASTLE

2022

Introduzione : crossing drawn borders : fumetto e migrazione

Giorgio Busi RizziNatalie DupréInge LanslotsAlessia Mangiavillano

A2 Journal Article in SCRITTURE MIGRANTI

New forms and reading protocols : for a genealogy of digital comics

Giorgio Busi RizziL. Di Paola

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

The dawn of the living communities : for a mediology of horror fandom in Dylan Dog

Giorgio Busi RizziLorenzo Di Paola

A2 Journal Article in H-ERMES-JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

What is love? Precarious lives, precarious loves in the works of Italian women graphic novelists

Nicoletta MandoliniGiorgio Busi Rizzi

Bookchapter in Precarious youth in contemporary graphic narratives : young lives in crisis

2021

Fare cose con I fumetti : i post-comics digitali e la promessa dell’interattività

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Bookchapter in Pixel : letteratura e media digitali

Immigrant song : nostalgic tensions in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS

Symposium report : AIPI Summer School 2021 Ricerca a fumetti

Eva Van de WieleGiorgio Busi RizziNicoletta MandoliniAlessia Mangiavillano

2020

Fumetto è ciò che il fumetto fa : la lunga storia di un medium mai uguale a se stesso

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Il fumetto digitale tra sperimentazione e partecipazione : il caso Homestuck = Digital comics halfway between experimentation and participation : the example of Homestuck

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in H-ERMES-JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

2018

Always at home in the past : exploring nostalgia in the graphic novel

Giorgio Busi RizziJan BaetensDonata Meneghelli

Last stop : this town. Sameness, suburbs and spectrality in Daniel Clowes's Ghost World

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in BETWEEN (CAGLIARI)

Portrait of the artist as a nostalgic : Seth’s It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Bookchapter in Comics memory : archives and styles

2016

Graphic novel : come definirlo? Come studiarlo?

Jan BaetensHugo FreyGiorgio Busi Rizzi

Text translation

Life during wartime : storia e (auto)biografia in Emmanuel Guibert e Jacques Tardi

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Bookchapter in Bande a part

Turn back time: rimorsi, ricordi e reazioni in Patience

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Article in a magazine

2015

Apocalypse then : (altri) frammenti di impegno postmoderno tra fantascienza, humour ed ecologismo

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in BETWEEN (CAGLIARI)

It all depends on what you mean by reality : US plain magical realism

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

A2 Journal Article in FASTITOCALON (Trier)