Project

Constructions of a new comics readership through children’s material culture: the rise of comics for very young readers in France and Belgium.

Code
01N13619
Duration
01 November 2019 → 31 August 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Comparative literature studies
    • Visual cultures
Keywords
comics children’s culture adaptation literacy
 
Project description

Taking the Alain Van Passen comics magazine collection as its starting point, this project shows how comics for very young readers (less than 8 years of age, who are gradually acquiring reading skills) has been established, since 1925, as a growing category in comics publishing, coinciding with investments in children’s material culture, through the novelization, dramatization and animation of comics.