Vertigo outside Vertigo
hal.structure.identifier | Cultures et Littératures des Mondes Anglophones [CLIMAS] | |
dc.contributor.author | LABARRE, Nicolas | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-01-14 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2492-0983 | |
dc.description.abstractEn | DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint (1993-2019) has generated a significant amount of fan and scholarly interest, and has come to serve as a shorthand for a variety of distinct writing and publishing practices, including an engagement with popular genres from a literary and political prism, the articulation of serial publication and trade collections, and the coexistence of creator-owned with publisher-controlled series. This paper attempts to locate the label diachronically and synchronically, so as to take a more precise measure of its innovations. To do so, it examines a number of publishing institutions that developed alongside Vertigo or as a reaction to the label’s success – in particular Dark Horse Comics, but also DC’s own short-lived Helix label and Wildstorm studio– and argue that they shared a comparable publishing agenda during the 1990s. The texts seeks to reconstruct the complex ecosystem of which Vertigo was but a part, and argues that the imprint’s critical fortune should be understood also in light of these competing endeavors, helped Vertigo hone its identity, and helped the trends it introduced reach a necessary critical mass. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | CLIMAS - Université Bordeaux Montaigne. | |
dc.subject.en | comics | |
dc.subject.en | publishing | |
dc.subject.en | independent | |
dc.subject.en | intertextuality | |
dc.subject.en | Vertigo | |
dc.title.en | Vertigo outside Vertigo | |
dc.type | Article de revue | |
dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sciences de l'information et de la communication | |
dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Art et histoire de l'art | |
bordeaux.journal | Leaves | |
bordeaux.page | 63-76 | |
bordeaux.volume | 11 | |
bordeaux.peerReviewed | oui | |
hal.identifier | hal-03111818 | |
hal.version | 1 | |
hal.origin.link | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-03111818v1 | |
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