Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (Studies in Popular Culture),Used

Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (Studies in Popular Culture),Used

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Jos Alaniz explores the problematic publication history of komiksan art form muchmaligned as 'bourgeois' mass diversion before, during, and after the collapse of the USSRwith an emphasis on the last twenty years. Using archival research, interviews with major artists and publishers, and close readings of several works, Komiks: Comic Art in Russia provides heretofore unavailable access to the country's richbut unknowncomics heritage. The study examines the dizzying experimental comics of the late Czarist and early revolutionary era, caricature from the satirical journal Krokodil, and the postwar series Petia Ryzhik (the 'Russian Tintin'). Detailed case studies include the Perestroikaera KOM studio, the first devoted to comics in the Soviet Union; postSoviet comics in contemporary art; autobiography and the work of Nikolai Maslov; and women's comics by such artists as Lena Uzhinova, Namida, and ReI. Alaniz examines such issues as antiAmericanism, censorship, the rise of consumerism, globalization (e.g., in Russian manga), the impact of the internet, and the hardwon establishment of a comics subculture in RussiaKomiks have often borne the brunt of ideological changethriving in summers of relative freedom, freezing in hard winters of official disdain. This volume covers the art form's origins in religious iconmaking and book illustration, and later the immensely popular lubok or woodblock print. Alaniz reveals comics' vilification and marginalization under the Communists, the art form's economic struggles, and its eventual internet 'migration' in the postSoviet era. This book shows that Russian comics, as with the people who made them, never had a 'normal life.'

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