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Following on from previous texts where I wanted to discuss the division of comics into well-known magazines and then their current evolution linked to new methods of distribution . Today I would like to talk about the practice of splitting that was once applied to literary works (including great novels that later became classics) through what was called the serial novel , a form of publication in episodes in widely circulated newspapers, magazines and even booklets, which ca

In the article " When Comics Created Weekly Suspense " I said, but without elaborating, that the arrival of digital had transformed the economic model of comics (although classic albums remain very numerous on the shelves of our bookstores!). This deserves to be addressed here. So let's go! This is direct online publication, which does not only mean a change of medium: these creations, from the end of the 90s of the 20th century, would influence major elements, such as graph

Comics are considered to have been born in the 19th century, from varied premises: illustrated stories, Epinal images, precise narratives with images and texts (Rodolphe Töppler), introduction of speech bubbles (Winor Mc Cay) at the very beginning of the 20th century... But we want to insist here, in the duanju spirit which is ours, on a particular dimension of this creation: the tendency which was hers to divide her story, which she would entrust to periodic supports respo

Cinematographic framing, formats and innovations. The connection is easy with our previous reflection on the history of painting : we mentioned the "frame," first fixed and then detachable, as the outer limit of the painting. With cinema, the "frame" became in some way the container of the filmed image. But in our time, this notion has taken on a strong technical dimension because it is inevitably linked to the idea of format: in the same width of film, it has been possible

The evolution of framing and formats in painting. Since the art of caves, humans have had to delimit what they wanted to reproduce. But each figure from this distant era seems to us today to be placed without order among others. With the birth of agriculture and therefore the organization of cultivated fields, the drawn or sculpted surface began to respect a certain geometry. As for painting, the first ancient traces that remain are frescoes applied to walls or tombs, sometim

A contributor to several journals and an observer of cultural changes, Jean-Marie Sanjorge appropriates the duanju format to offer a broader interpretation. For him, it is fully in line with the acceleration that shapes our modernity. "A lot has been said about the phenomenon of acceleration that has characterized Western modernity over the last two centuries. It's not my place here to judge the advantages and disadvantages of this situation, but, in accordance with the title