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Komiks jako przykład kultury fanowskiej
Comic book as an example of fan culture

Author(s): Marcelina N. Zdenkowska
Subject(s): Media studies, Photography, Visual Arts, Studies of Literature, Sociology of Culture, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: comics; fan fiction; fan culture; fan art; deviant art;

Summary/Abstract: In this article I analyze the chosen examples of fan comics. In the first part of the article I describe the history of comics, how and by whom they were created. Then I show the comic’s role as part of Transmedia Storytelling. In the second part I introduce the term fan fiction and I describe the circumstances of the creation of this specific form of fan art. Moreover I write about the most important fan fiction theories. In the last part of the article I analyze 3 selected authors of comics who publish their works on social media platform Deviant Art. Also I describe their style, inspirations and references to original works. Fan comics are a very specific phenomenon. However the many possibilities given by this art is not used by the fans. There are no experiments with a form contrary to the fan fiction literature. On the other hand the selected comics are an exception. Maybe the authors are not very innovative. But the interesting thing is that they use humor and autobiographical themes in an unusual way.

  • Issue Year: 62/2019
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 16-27
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish