Visual Novels and Comic-Strip Poetry: Dino Buzzati’s Poema a fumetti, Martin Vaughn-James’s The Projector, and Avant-Garde Experimentation with Comics in the 1960s and 1970s
This thesis focuses on two novel-length graphic narratives: Poema a fumetti (1969) by the Italian novelist Dino Buzzati and The Projector (1971), created in Toronto by the British-born visual artist Martin Vaughn-James. Through an in-depth analysis of these two works and by comparing them to other “...