KÉPREGÉNYTUDOMÁNYI KÉZIKÖNYV A DIGITÁLIS KORBAN
COMICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Author(s): Gyula Maksa
Subject(s): Media studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: Hungarian comic book culture; digital age; techno-cultural diversity;
Summary/Abstract: Over the last decade and a half, the field of comics studies has been delineated within (media) cultural studies. It is precisely during this period that the media environment of comic book culture, the media, production, consumption, and useof comics are changing, in large part due to the technological innovations that are spreading at the time. In the case of Hungarian comic book culture, two trend scan be observed: on the one hand, the shift to the Internet and electronic media and on the other the proliferation of comic book festivals and exhibitions that offer opportunities for personal encounters. The changes of the last decade anda half have affected all the main aspects of comics media: creation, distribution, texts, media, audiences, and uses. At the same time, the techno-cultural diversity of comics media, which is often geographically and culturally diverse in terms ofmedia, genres, markets, audiences, and graphic styles, is not lost on digital comics. The North American webcomic, the Korean webtoon, and the Francophone bande dessinée numérique have a history, distribution, media layout, and environment,as well as a history of use that is very different from one another but also very diverse in itself. In this media-historical situation, the question arises: what kind of overview would be appropriate, i.e. effective and useful, for the Hungarian comics studies that are in the process of being institutionalized, for the planningand development of further research, university seminars, library and other collections? The presentation aims to present the experiences of the first phase of a longer research project aimed at the creation of a handbook on comics in Hungarian.

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