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Cut-Up and Redrawn. Reading Charles Burns’s Swipe Files
Crucifix, Benoît
2017In Inks: the Journal of the Comics Studies Society, 1 (3), p. 309-333
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Keywords :
swiping; redrawing; comics studies; memory; graphiation; Charles Burns
Abstract :
[en] A term ubiquitous in the comic book industry, swiping has garnered few critical attention in comics theory: yet, the concept is one that strongly shapes the comics world by giving a medium-specific term to its own issues of copying, imitation and borrowing. After recounting two where swiping was at stake (Jules Feiffer’s description and the Muñoz/Giffen controversy), this article sets out to examine the practice more closely by focusing on the example of Charles Burns, who has repeatedly professed to swiping while accumulating swipe files. This article reads Burns’s swipe files to examine the formal and narrative stakes of redrawing other comics, while replacing this cultural practice within a longer history.A term ubiquitous in the comic book industry, swiping has garnered few critical attention in comics theory: yet, the concept is one that strongly shapes the comics world by giving a medium-specific term to its own issues of copying, imitation and borrowing. After recounting two where swiping was at stake (Jules Feiffer’s description and the Muñoz/Giffen controversy), this article sets out to examine the practice more closely by focusing on the example of Charles Burns, who has repeatedly professed to swiping while accumulating swipe files. This article reads Burns’s swipe files to examine the formal and narrative stakes of redrawing other comics, while replacing this cultural practice within a longer history.
Research center :
Groupe ACME
Disciplines :
Communication & mass media
Literature
Author, co-author :
Crucifix, Benoît ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues et littératures romanes > Département de langues et littératures romanes
Language :
English
Title :
Cut-Up and Redrawn. Reading Charles Burns’s Swipe Files
Publication date :
2017
Journal title :
Inks: the Journal of the Comics Studies Society
ISSN :
2473-5191
eISSN :
2473-5205
Publisher :
Ohio State University Press, Columbus, United States - Ohio
Volume :
1
Issue :
3
Pages :
309-333
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
Histories of Comics by its Authors: the Graphic Novel and its Heritage, from 1980 to the present
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
Commentary :
Awarded the 2017 CSS Article Prize: “An excellent article that casts some much-needed theoretical light on swiping, an artistic practice that has so far been mostly neglected in Comics Studies. Crucifix’s approach is theoretically sophisticated and the article promises to be generative of new scholarship.”
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