Global comic book heroes: intra- and inter-cultural translations of Tintin, Asterix, and Paperinik comics

Zanettin, Federico 2022. Global comic book heroes: intra- and inter-cultural translations of Tintin, Asterix, and Paperinik comics. New Readings 18 , pp. 52-69. 10.18573/newreadings.126

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Abstract

Comics are hybrid visual and verbal texts that in translation cut across intra- and inter-semiotic boundaries. In this article I briefly review semiotic approaches to the study of comics in translation, focusing on those based on Roman Jakobson’s and Gunther R. Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen’s models. I then discuss examples of the translation in several languages of three of the most translated and reprinted comic series in the world—namely, Tintin, Asterix, and the popular Disney character Paperinik/Donald Duck. The examples show some of the different types of relationships which are established between visual and verbal signs in intra- and inter-cultural translation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration N Fine Arts > NE Print media P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures P Language and Literature > PS American literature P Language and Literature > PZ Childrens literature Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	2634-6850
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	9 June 2022
Date of Acceptance:	30 November 2021
Last Modified:	10 May 2023 23:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/150316

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