1st Edition
Comics and Children’s Magazines
Introduction: Comics and Children’s Magazines
Maaheen Ahmed and Giorgio Busi Rizzi
1. Stories and Pictures for Boys and Girls: Identifying the Child Reader in British Comics 1890-1920
Michael Connerty
2. Domesticating American Serial Characters in European Children’s Comics Magazines: The Case of Corriere dei Piccoli in the 1910s
Eva Van de Wiele
3. Editorial Communication: Letter Columns in the French-language (Comics) Magazines (1934-1949)
Maaheen Ahmed
4. Cameras and young people belong together: Camera Comics (1944-46) as an imaginative, ideological and commercial space for addressing and depicting American child photographers
Annebella Pollen
5. Pecos Bill and the Campaign against Children’s Comics in Postwar Italy
Paola Bonifazio
6. Lisette and the disappearance of illustrés for girls
Nicolas Labarre
7. 1953-1970. Stories of Young Orphans in the Service of National Reconciliation
Effie Amilitou and Mikros Iros
8. “Topolino” beyond comics: fostering readership engagement and parasocial relationship through the paratextual apparatus (1960–2010)
Benedetta D'Incau
Biography
Maaheen Ahmed is an associate professor of comparative literature at Ghent University specializing in comics, periodicals, and children’s culture.
Giorgio Busi Rizzi is FWO senior postdoctoral fellow and adjunct professor at Ghent University, teaching the comics and graphic novels course. His current project investigates authorship in post-digital comics; his previous research analyzed nostalgic aesthetics and practices in comics, and experimental digital comics.
