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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
3. Where Are Genres in Comics?
Author : Nicolas Labarre
Published in: Understanding Genres in Comics
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
This chapter investigates the ways in which genres are made manifest, both in the peritext of the comics and in the comics themselves. It argues that the use of the paratext to advertise genres has undergone a significant transformation since the 1940s, with a shift from genres to proprietary architexts, enabled by the physical properties of comic books and graphic novels. The chapter also examines the funny animal genre, to argue that nearly all of the stylistic and narrative choices to be found in these comics constitute genre signifiers.