Comic Book Translation: Beyond Words?

• Main Author: S. Manoj
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Maheswari Publishers 2021-07-01
• Series: International Journal of Tamil Language and Literary Studies
• Subjects: translation; multi-modal; rendering; censorship; loss and gain
• Online Access: http://ijtlls.com/data/uploads/volume-4-issue-1-july-2021/16-%20Eng%20Manoj-.pdf

The objective of this research is to study a comic book translation; this is to find out whether the process of translation is the same across genres or is it any different when it comes to the translation of a comic book. For this study, a British comic book The Murder Corporation by A Fleetway Super Library and its Tamil translation Sathigarar Sangam by Lion-muthu Comics is scrutinized. This research marks the differences between the source and the translated material to show that translation is not a mere word for word conversion, as it is faithful to the original text and at the same time very conscious about the target audience who are to read the translation.