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ERIC Number: EJ1470724
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 33
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Parody and Mis-unda-stendings in Comics Art World: Bridging the Gap with New Criteria
Yannis Koukoulas
SANE Journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education, v2 n9 Article 1 2025
Krazy Kat's iconic phrase "Lenguage is that we may mis-unda-stend each udda" (=language is that we may misunderstand each other) to Ignatz has been used and reproduced repeatedly to highlight George Herriman's comics around language and its functions. Such a phrase hides great truths when the interlocutors do not understand words with the same meaning, when their 'worlds' are separated by a huge gap, when the vocabulary and even more so the grammatical rules of the language of understanding are different. Comics Art World, being de facto, consciously or unconsciously, in constant and two-way communication with Artworld, is often confused as to the concepts with which it attempts to describe its works. This exacerbates the difficulty of understanding Artworld and also of understanding within Artworld. Comics Art World's re-imaginings of Artworld's works, and in particular the parody with its many manifestations and meanings, is perhaps the most striking example of miscommunication and misunderstanding. This paper seeks to document this problem and aims to encourage those who formulate contemporary theoretical discourse on comics to propose new terminology, new vocabulary, new rules for the use of comics language, new criteria for classifying and categorizing parody works, which are becoming more and more numerous as the years go by. Or accept the existing ones on the basis of a common agreement in order to bridge the gap and make the consultation more effective.
SANE Journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education. Available from: Digital Commons @ University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Web site: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/
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Language: English
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