Reading childly : Manouach’s Riki Fermier and Cascao Ghent University
This chapter focuses on Manouach’s incitations to re-read and think with comics and about comics-making through the lens of childness or a critical construction of the implied child reader. It argues that Manouach’s comics, Riki Fermier and Cascao, function on three superposed levels: a) they activate the possibility of rethinking the notion of childness and childishness through comics, a medium often occupying the uncomfortable status of ...