Tomasz Żaglewski
Department of Culture Studies
Adam Mickiewicz Unversity in Poznań
Poland
Masks of Batman. The Costume as an Element of Superhero Narratives in Comics
The main goal of the article is to present the theme of mask and costume in the superhero comic’s narratives as a key element not only for visual aspects of superheroes but also theirs psychological background. Using an example of Darwyn Cooke’s “Batman: Ego” comic book, the author presents a mask and a costume as “subjectified” creations in Cooke’s work. They become a starting points for a comic book’s stories which concentrate on the multilayered dependence between the mask-ed and un-mask-ed personality of a hero.
Keywords: theory of comics, history of comics, text analysis
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No. 37 (2018)
Published: 2019-02-05
10.31261/errgo
English
Język Polski