Subjectivity and comics journalism in the French magazine XXI. Discrepancy between paratexts and texts
(2019) DIEGESIS — Vol. 8, n° 1, p. 85-108 (2019)
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Vanoost, Marie 
- Abstract
- Comics journalism is a form of narrative journalism, but also plays a part in a much wider movement – the hybridization of cultural products – and the increasing blurring of the boundaries between fact and fiction. It presents itself as a way to inject new life into a profession currently in crisis by resurrecting reporter subjectivity. Based on a corpus from the magazine XXI, this article analyses how the alleged subjectivity is expressed in the comics journalism paratext and how it is translated into the cartoon itself – in both its graphic and its textual dimensions. One of the most interesting results is the contrast between the two parts of the analysis: while the paratext almost systematically emphasizes the authors’ personal involvement, the authors make their presence fully known in slightly fewer than half of the cartoons analysed.
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Vanoost, M., & Sepulchre, S. (2019). Subjectivity and comics journalism in the French magazine XXI. Discrepancy between paratexts and texts. DIEGESIS, 8(1), 85-108. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/62079 (Original work published 2019)