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Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel by Benoît Crucifix (review)

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Review examines comics history in graphic novels, highlighting their cultural significance and material practices.

Contemporary graphic novels draw on comics history to inform their narratives and styles, preserving the medium's legacy.
Benoît Crucifix identifies six practices that cartoonists use to engage with and preserve comics history.
Assessment of comics from a historical perspective shows how artists adapt styles and themes from their predecessors, actively constructing cultural memory in the medium's evolution, with a focused examination on graphic novels and their distinct formal characteristics. Supports the idea that comics act as diplomatic conduits for historic and contemporary narratives.

Matthew Levay (2024) studied this question.

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