Regardless of Context: Graphic Novels with the Faceless (and Homelandless) Hero of Branko Jelinek

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Regardless of Context: Graphic Novels with the Faceless (and Homelandless) Hero of Branko Jelinek

Original language description

In the mid-90s, Czech (as well as Slovak) comics got into a deep crisis - the artists that contributed to the feverish development of Czechoslovak comics during the transition era after the fall of the communist regime somehow dissapeared. After 2000, a completely new generation appear, without any connections to the previous one. At the same time, the entire local comics market underwent a transformation: comics were no longer dominantly published in magazines (as was common in the 20th century), the book took the place of the most common publishing platform (in relation with the global emergence of the so-called graphic novels). One of the most prominent artist who emerged in the new millennium was Branko Jelinek (1978), a Prague-based Slovak that published his debut trilogy Oskar Ed in 2003–2006 (collected n the Polish translation in 2009). A decade later, second graphic novel called Oskar Ed: My Biggest Dream (2016) appeared. Both of these Jelinek´s works are significantly detached (in form, in style, as well as in the content) from the prevalent local &quot;sub-type&quot; of graphic novel and from the Czech comics context. The proposed paper wants to focus on this particular uniqueness of the Jelinek´s works, on its global rendition as well as on the similarities and differences between these two outstanding comics. Last but not least, it also wants to discuss how his works go beyond the &quot;common&quot; scope of the Czech (or Slovak) production.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Comics of the New Europe. Reflections and Intersections

ISBN

978-94-6270-212-7

Number of pages of the result

15

Pages from-to

"121–135"

Number of pages of the book

289

Publisher name

Leuven University Press

Place of publication

Leuven

UT code for WoS chapter

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