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The utilization of graphic novels in the realm of clinical medicine is an infrequent occurrence. However, there is a burgeoning interest in their application across a spectrum of pathological conditions with the ultimate aim of enhancing patient care. This study is a prospective pilot designed to assess the influence of graphic novels on the stress levels and behavioral responses of patients diagnosed with pancreatic lesions and who are to undergo endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle biopsy (EUS-FNB). Patients exhibiting radiological and clinical pancreatic lesions needing biopsy will be evaluated consecutively. The inclusion criteria encompass the presence of a solid pancreatic mass or a partially solid mass in the event of a cystic component. The exclusion criteria include patients with cognitive impairments, those currently on benzodiazepines or other psychotropic medications, and those with a prior diagnosis of cancer. The authors have developed a comic panel comprising a sequence of six vibrant vignettes, which delineate the standard procedure of EUS-FNB to the patient. Following hospital admission, patients whomeet the enrolment criteria and consent to participate in the studywill be randomly assigned to either the test or the control group. A graphic novel will be distributed to all patients in the test group, who will have the opportunity to peruse it while awaiting the procedure. Subsequent to the EUS-FNB, all enrolled patients will complete the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and amodified version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (termed mDASS-21 or mASS-14). The BAI, a 21-itemself-report inventory, is employed to gauge the severity of anxiety in adults. The other questionnaire is a modified rendition of the DASS-21, which originally comprised 21 items segregated into three subscales (anxiety, stress, and depression) with seven items each. The anxiety subscale measures physiological arousal, situational anxiety, and the subjective experience of the effects of anxiety, while the stress subscale assesses chronic non-specific arousal, difficulty relaxing, nervous tension, irritability, agitation, and impatience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Autobiographical graphic novels have become crucial texts for understanding displacement and transnational identities. This article discusses a long-lost early example of the genre, The Voyage and Adventures of a Well-Behaved German in Kangarooland (Reise-Abenteuer eines Braven Deutschen im Lande der Kangaroo), a series of proto-comic books created circa 1918–1919 by the cartoonist C. Friedrich. A German immigrant to Australia imprisoned in an Australian internment camp during World War I, Friedrich used his self-published comics to document the routines, passions and frustrations of camp life. Drawing on recent scholarship on "POW creativity" as a conceptual lens, we argue that the transnational displacement at the heart of Friedrich's work affirms Kangarooland as a pioneering work that provides a conceptual link with later autobiographical graphic novels and which should lead scholars to question claims that autobiographical comics are an American-born genre. Its origins in displacement and transnationalism, themes that animate so many of the most renowned graphic novels of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, suggest the genre instead developed out of the ability of comics to depict transnationalism and the precarity of displacement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines two recent Israeli webcomics and explores how each has introduced new modes of graphic communication in Israeli comics. Both are rooted in the Israeli cultural milieu but they reject the forms and substance traditionally associated with Israeli comics and graphic novels. In particular, I analyse Barlev's use of anthropomorphism and Nachmany's use of superhero parody in order to offer novel critiques of Israeli society while also expanding the range and scope of the Israeli comic book and graphic narrative marketplace. I conclude the article by offering a tentative assessment of what it is about webcomics that has facilitated both of these works and how Nachmany's and Barlev's popularity can lead to future novel expressions in Israeli comics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, I will examine the co-existence of different styles of drawing in Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (Lai, 2021). I will argue that this graphic novel uses two styles of drawing to produce different space times which can be better understood through a discussion of Bakhtin's idea of the Chronotope. (Bakhtin 2011) I will compare this use of drawing to the drawing styles present in Onwards Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki (Mizuki and Allen, 2011) and argue that these comics use style to activate different chronotopic space times in order to deepen the reader's understanding of the interpersonal relationships between characters. I will consider the implications for both the drawn and drawing body in these comics, in the context of the history of naturalistic forms of representational drawing in manga and the practice of genre-splicing and 'swiping' in alternative comics. I will examine ways in which the movement between two styles of drawing form a structuring element of these narratives and argue that this movement is essential to communicating the meaning of these comics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines how crip-queer ethics of care is represented in two case studies from contemporary feminist graphic fiction. A comparative textual and theoretical analysis is conducted to examine diverse queer communities represented in Amruta Patil's graphic novel Kari and Sybil Lamb's illustrated novel I've Got a Time Bomb. Both novels use crip-queer aesthetics to deconstruct gender binaries and pave the way for a more radical, fluid, and inclusive culture. Using Robert McRuer, Carrie Sandahl, and Jack Halberstam's theories of gender and disability, the essay examines how Patil and Lamb create protagonists that combat the very category of the "normative" in white heterosexist patriarchy. It reveals how a crip-queer ethics of care can create the possibility for more emancipated futures for the transnational queer and trans communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2021, the Me Too movement took prominence in Australia following incidents which exposed gendered violence in the nation's chief political, and legal institutions. The authors, teachers and students at one of the leading law schools in Australia took a range of actions, culminating in writing a graphic novel called Once Upon a Time in Australia: Conversations about how our Me Too movement exposed the troubles of Truth in Law (Counterpress, 2014). In this article, the authors write about their methodology and offer auto-critiques of their work, in a process they describe as critical performative iterations. This method facilitates speaking out thoughts and lived perspectives into knowledge which aligns with feminist standpoint theory, while also resisting their voices from asserting new essentialised truths. These critiques consider the limitations of the authors' standpoints. They also consider the genre of horror, the insider/outside trope, and the politics of citation in Law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2019, the Peruvian comic strip Selva Misteriosa was republished in the format of a graphic novel, reintroducing one of Peru’s most important comic referents to a contemporary audience. An icon of the early 70s, Selva Misteriosa is an adventure comic that follows Javico, an adventurer and family man making a living in the Peruvian Rainforest. The main focus of this article is tracing back the corporeal representation in the comic as a remnant of the anxieties the Spanish colonizers faced when confronted with the new environment of the Americas. This paper argues that, although the understanding of the body has changed dramatically, the underlying anxieties the Spanish conquistadors faced have remained with the Peruvian creole elite, and Selva Misteriosa shows a new expression of these anxieties in the, at the time, still unknown environment of the rainforest. In this regard, Javico’s idealized body and subjectivity is contrasted with the vulnerability the creole body still shows in the character of “El Finado”. As such, the ambivalent portrayal of the creole body shows the lack of resolution for the possibility of contaminating and changing the purity of the creole body and subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this research is to present new fixed point theorems for two separate families of fuzzy-dominated mappings. These mappings must satisfy a unique locally contraction in a complete b-multiplicative metric space. Also, we have obtained novel results for families of fuzzy-dominated mappings on a closed ball that meet the requirements of a generalized locally contraction. This research introduces new and challenging fixed-point problems for families of ordered fuzzy-dominated mappings in ordered complete b-multiplicative metric spaces. Moreover, we demonstrate a new concept for families of fuzzy graph-dominated mappings on a closed ball in these spaces. Additionally, we present novel findings for graphic contraction endowed with graphic structure. These findings are groundbreaking and provide a strong foundation for future research in this field. To demonstrate the uniqueness of our novel findings, we provide evidence of their applicability in obtaining the common solution of integral and fractional differential equations. Our findings have resulted in modifications to several contemporary and classical results in the research literature. This provides further evidence of the originality and impact of our work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a pipeline for creating consistent characters using open-source generative AI tools, aimed at enhancing educational content. Through the use of XTTS, Fooocus, and FaceFusion, a talking avatar of the marine biologist Raffaele Issel was developed, accurately replicating his facial and vocal features. This study demonstrates how these tools can generate high-quality, engaging educational materials with minimal technical expertise and resources. The methodology facilitates the creation of interactive avatars for use in graphic novels and comic books, enriching museum and educational experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a close analysis of the interventionary visual rhetoric and comic techniques in The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill (Kwakwaka'wakw). It positions Hill's comic book as an act of discursive resistance that challenges imagery and narratives of colonial history using the affordances of comic arts. As a multimodal genre, as an audience-directed educational text, and as an account of warriorhood, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book is an important contribution to Indigenous studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay explores the haunting shadows of coloniality through the lens of shame and grief. Highlighting the graphic novel Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, I trace the diasporic linkages between gendered violence, colonial amnesia, and the patriarchal silencing of the stories of 'comfort women.' I argue that the search for legibility and homecoming trouble shame, grief, and memory. Shame and the female body play a central role in the narrative and visual framework of Gendry-Kim's graphic novel. It challenges us to reconsider our understanding of history by engaging with shame that disrupts history. Such alternative archives of memory are important in that they articulate exclusions that frame history, documenting stories about home, diaspora, displacement, and their aftereffects from the vantage point of women who are relegated to the haunting shadows left by the legacies of war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of liminality is fundamentally borrowed from anthropology to explore its application in literary and cultural studies, which remains largely understudied to this date. Liminality essentially signifies a state of in-betweenness characterised by significant factors, such as uncertainty, ambiguity, anxiety, loss of previous values, identity-crisis, isolation and dilemma. The present paper intends to investigate the tropes of liminality in the graphic novel as well as its application to understand the process of transformation of the protagonist as expressed through grids, gutters and panels by employing Victor Turner's 'Theory of Liminality'. Further, the later part is dedicated to explore the silhouettes of activism using Turner's concept of 'anti-structure', through the theme of vegetation visible throughout the novel. The present work not only attempts to trace the liminality of the protagonist in Gendry-Kim's Grass(2019) but also ventures into establishing the liminal status of the genre of graphic novel itself. The study, thus, presents us an opportunity to explore one of the aggressively silenced and traumatic histories of 'comfort women issue' through the lens of Gendry-Kim's recently published graphic novel Grass(2019). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the sudden experience of an unfamiliar feeling due to the blurring of the boundaries between the private and the public space, resulting in what Bhabha calls 'unhomely.' It has been further argued that this sudden emergence of unfamiliar experiences acts as a traumatic event, represented through graphic narration in Malik Sajad's Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir. The sense of 'unhomeliness' caused due to various factors like constant surveillance is responsible for the traumatic feeling in Munnu. The paper also explores the idea of the panopticon, which engenders the blurring of the boundaries between the home and the world. The blurred boundaries make our private space strange and unfamiliar, which is supposed to be an intimate place without any invasion by the external world. Therefore, the present study explores the notion of 'unhomely' and the trauma caused by it, as represented in the graphic narration of the events through dreams and nightmares. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To help address the well-being of the campus and contribute to empathy building amongst students pursuing careers as healthcare providers, an academic health sciences library built a graphic novel collection focused on comics that discuss medical conditions and health-related topics. The collection contains the experiences of patients, providers, and caregivers. The reader-friendly format of graphic novels provides an easy entry point for discussing empathy with health professions faculty and students. The collection has been used in the classroom during library instruction sessions, with the idea of integrating it within the curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic integrity is a crucial aspect of the educational process, often receiving insufficient attention until a violation occurs. Researchers emphasize the importance of students comprehending academic integrity to foster ethical professionalism. However, there is a lack of resources available to effectively support these conversations. This study aims to assess academic integrity efficacy and the multi-dimensional ethical scale (MES) through the use of a graphic novel mini-case study. The analysis reveals a significant relationship between academic integrity efficacy, MES dimensions (moral equity, relativism and contractualism), and the case studies among undergraduate participants. The combination of quantitative and qualitative findings provides valuable insights into how graphic novel mini-cases can engage in academic integrity discussions with undergraduate students. The graphic novel mini-cases, along with their limitations and potential for future research, are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on Latin American comics and graphic humor. It examines the evolution of comic studies in Latin America, tracing its origins back to the mid twentieth century when it emerged under the influence of American and European counterparts. It highlights how Latin American comics have addressed themes such as postcolonial subjugation, political and social violence, and the struggle to develop a competitive cultural industry.

In Alan Moore’s graphic novel Providence, Robert Black travels Lovecraftian New England and suffers a series of horrifying encounters—each an allusion to a Lovecraft story. These encounters contain direct references to various sins and taboos, thereby making explicit much of the sublimated sexuality in Lovecraft’s works. Therefore, Black’s journey constitutes not only a trip through Lovecraft’s mythology but also reads as a cataloguing of sins reminiscent of Dante’s passage through the levels of sin in Inferno. This paper identifies and explores the similarities between Dante and Black as examples of those who descend to the underworld along with a consideration of the function of such texts as a way to catalogue and understand sin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "In Defense of Comics" argues that comic books and graphic novels should be taken seriously as a form of literature and art. The author acknowledges that there is a stigma surrounding comic books, but argues that they can be culturally and intellectually valuable. The article suggests that teaching comics can be engaging and active, challenging traditional modes of understanding. The author provides examples of how comics can be used in the English classroom, such as introducing genre through classic pulp comics and studying more complex graphic novels like "Persepolis." The article emphasizes the importance of slow reading and the exploration of visual language through drawing when studying comics. The author also acknowledges the need for support from curriculum leaders and a class set of books to effectively teach graphic novels. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the Favoritenpresse, highlighting its unique approach of blending antique charm with contemporary visuals. Topics covered include the reprint of historical manuscripts like the Voynich Manuscript, eclectic themes such as Wilhelmine-era sci-fi and anti-Nazi caricatures, and a diverse range from old scientific texts to modern graphic novels.

The article focuses on Jakob Hinrichs, a comic artist, highlighting his unconventional studio space and his approach to comic art as a legitimate and evolving form of contemporary literature and visual expression. Topics include his innovative adaptations of literary classics into graphic novels, his rejection of conventional artistic norms in favor of populism, and his use of traditional printing techniques to enhance the visual and tactile experience of his books.

This article discusses the œuvre of Artemisia Gentileschi, a prominent Baroque painter who was rediscovered by art historian Roberto Longhi in the 1910s. Today, her art is interpreted through various lenses, including art theory, women's studies, and psychoanalysis. Gentileschi's paintings are often "read" in close reference to her painful biography, with a focus on the "chiaroscuro" of trauma and its overcoming. Significantly, such biography-oriented approaches seem to be predominant in scholarship on art created by women. The argument presented is that Gentileschi's works require a thorough re-reading free of "compulsive biographism", as postulated by Salomon. The focus should shift from an empathic Einfühlung (or empathic projection) towards an objective analysis based purely on art-historical or sociological criteria. This article also explores the presence of the socially mediated and mediatised figure of the artist in fine literature (novels by Banti, Lapierre and Vreeland), cinematic biographies (Artemisia, directed by Merlet, documentaries (Artemisia Gentileschi: Warrior Painter, directed by River), anime (a series titled Arte, directed by Takayuki Hamana), and graphic novels (Ferlut and Baudouin; Siciliano). In this artistic constellation Artemisia is labelled as an art/feminist "icon", a female genius, and as in numerous scholarly texts dedicated to her, "a victim". I propose that the discussed literary and visual texts related to Gentileschi be interpreted as symptomatic (in line with Panofsky's concept of 'iconology') of the contemporary mentality, which is filtered through feminist and subaltern thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The graphic novel "Soviet Daughter" by Yulichka "Julia" Alekseyeva tells the parallel stories of the author's life as a refugee who immigrated to Chicago following the Chernobyl disaster and the life of her great-grandmother, Khinya "Lola" Ignatovskaya. The novel explores themes of citizenship and belonging, highlighting the inequality faced by certain ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union and the challenges of adapting to a new country. It also addresses the experiences of exclusion and mistreatment faced by migrants and refugees. The novel encourages readers to reflect on their own experiences and the impact of migration on individuals and communities. [Extracted from the article]

The graphic novel "Seeking Refuge" by Irene Watts explores the experiences of displaced persons, specifically focusing on the protagonist, Marianne, a young Jewish girl who is forced to flee her homeland during World War II. The story follows Marianne's life as a displaced person on the Kindertransport to London, England, and later to Wales. The novel delves into Marianne's personal struggles, the pressures she faces as a refugee, and the forms of discrimination she encounters. Through Marianne's story, the novel highlights the complex and multifaceted nature of identity and how it shapes individual experiences. The graphic novel provides a unique and emotionally impactful perspective on the realities of displaced persons during this tumultuous time in history. [Extracted from the article]

This document presents a lesson plan that uses graphic novels to teach students about global migration and promote empathy for displaced persons. The lesson plan covers key geographical concepts, theoretical themes in migration studies, and encourages storytelling to foster empathy. The document emphasizes the benefits of using graphic novels in the classroom, such as supporting visual and textual learning. It includes a list of recommended graphic novels for students to read and aligns with standards in geography and social studies education. The lesson plan includes a worksheet and concludes with a class discussion where students share their analyses and reflections. The author also provides an assessment rubric and suggests an extension activity for students to examine the artistic elements of graphic novels. The text highlights the positive impact of the lesson plan on students' understanding of global migration and their engagement with the subject matter. [Extracted from the article]

School librarians are challenged with selecting and organizing a rich, diverse collection of materials, which include graphic novels. However, those materials considered to be potentially problematic are sometimes overlooked during the collection development process. The increasing rate at which graphic novels are being challenged in school libraries suggests that this format may be one of those considered to be potentially problematic. This research sought to understand how school librarians in the southeast region of the United States thought about graphic novels and their use in schools. Through four focus group interviews, participants described their personal and professional perspectives about graphic novel reading and how they approach the graphic novel collection development process. The findings suggest that school librarians have a complex relationship with graphic novels as library materials, rooted in both lack of understanding about how the format functions and perceived external pressure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture" is an edited volume by Anna Marta Marini and Michael Fuchs that explores how the gothic mode is present in contemporary American popular culture. The book examines the gothic's influence across various media and texts, addressing themes such as racial tensions, bodily monstrosity, environmental crises, and technological anxieties. Divided into four sections, the book delves into the gothic representation of marginalized ethnic groups, the intersection of bodily trauma and discrimination, eerie landscapes and ecological degradation, and the association between technology and gothic unease. The volume offers a comprehensive examination of the gothic's role in contemporary American culture and its relevance in addressing modern anxieties. [Extracted from the article]

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This study examines the application of comics in futures research to involve stakeholders in infrastructure strategy discussions for disruptive futures. It employs a graphic novel called "Vanishing Point! Our Built World," which augments generative AI art with human storytelling to transport participants into a speculative 2150 with a solarpunk theme. The narrative applies the concept of future-self continuity and a temporal discontinuity framework to promote visions of sustainability for both humanity and the environment. The research emphasises the ability of comics to foster meaningful discussions on future infrastructure coordination by incorporating Social Construction Theory, Social Construction of Technology Theory, and Actor Network Theory. Comics being adapted into videos and used in workshops highlight their effectiveness in promoting engagement and facilitating semi-structured discussions. This demonstrates comics as a dynamic tool in futures research and participatory methodologies. Relevant themes: Anthropocene, Ecocene and Climate Change/Post-capitalism/Utopias, Eutopias and Dystopias/Solar Punk and its relations/Artificial Intelligence and Automation/Wicked Problems/Futures and Metaphor/Reimagining Futures Tools and Methodologies. Statement acknowledging use of Generative AI Art and copyright ownership : "Vanishing Point! Our Built World" graphic novel artwork was created with Midjourney generative AI. These images were created using the author's prompts and ideas. The author owns these AI-generated photos and their derivatives. Synthesia was used to create animated films and AI-generated avatars from comic artwork. Statement on the use of Generative AI in the production of this manuscript : Referring to Author Guidelines on Using Generative AI and Large Language Models| Sage Learning Resources (sagepub.com), this manuscript employed various AI tools to assist with research and writing. ChatGPT4 and its plugin, Scholar AI, helped identify relevant literature in addition to traditional research. Litmaps revealed article linkages, clarifying the research landscape. ChatGPT4 critiqued the manuscript. Quillbot improved the manuscript's clarity and consistency by improving its language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a changing publishing climate, with graphic novel adaptations of bestselling books becoming increasingly popular, we examined four Newbery Medal winning texts (Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, Lois Lowry's The Giver, Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, and Kwame Alexander's The Crossover) and their graphic novel adaptations. Graphic novels, including graphic adaptations of award-winning texts, have long been viewed as second tier literature, both by educators and literature scholars alike. However, in this study, we attempt to elevate and make space for the unique affordances of both text types. Rather than comparing source texts and their adaptations in order to determine which exhibited higher literary quality (a highly subjective and contentious space that typically privileges the originals), we approach our analysis by asking how reading the paired texts could expand and enhance readers' transactions. The findings of our study suggest pairing award-winning texts and their graphic novel adaptations can allow readers' transactions to blossom, as the complementary experiences can deepen their understanding of and engagement with storytelling that unfolds in unique and important ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article delves into the utilization of graphic narratives by preservice and practicing teachers to enhance student learning, focusing on multimodal communication. It discusses the evolution of instruction towards more culturally responsive practices and the significance of integrating graphic novels into curricula. It explores teachers' creation of graphic narratives and their impact on pedagogical approaches, aiming to foster culturally responsive decision-making.