@article{01HTCZ9M130F25N8HDVEBKR536,
  abstract     = {{In the past ten years, the Italian comics landscape has been changed by autobiographical comic artists such as Zerocalcare and Takoua Ben Mohamed, whose work has significantly expanded the Italian comics readership. The success of these authors and the non-serialised form of the ‘graphic novel’ has also impacted the production of biographical comics, offering new perspectives on the lives of renowned personalities to a wide audience. The role of mediation of comics authors make this genre particularly compelling for the study of the use of verbo-visual narrative aspects to mirror and communicate scenes of real life. Through a close reading of three female authored and female focused graphic biographies, Lei. Vivian Maier, Virginia Woolf, and Io sono Maria Callas, this paper analyses the way biographic storytelling can be declined for life writing. These graphic novels reinterpret the lives of iconic female figures of the past, turning the spotlight on their experience of women in the arts through the lenses of other women in the arts. These graphic biographies revisit layered, and complex lived experiences in a unique, immediate, and effective way thanks to the direct narrative allowed by the comics medium.}},
  author       = {{Di Franco, Manuela}},
  issn         = {{0075-1634}},
  journal      = {{ITALIAN STUDIES}},
  keywords     = {{Italian comics,Graphic novels,Women studies}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{1--24}},
  title        = {{(Bio)graphic novels : a medium for biographic storytelling}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}