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“A Grotesque, Incurable Disease”: Whiteness as Illness in Gabby Schulz’s Sick (2020)
Journal Article
Køhlert, F. B. (2020). “A Grotesque, Incurable Disease”: Whiteness as Illness in Gabby Schulz’s Sick. Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, 4(2), 199-220. https://doi.org/10.1353/ink.2020.0018

In Sick, his 2016 memoir about suffering from a mysterious illness, Gabby Schulz depicts himself as experiencing extreme pain, which he depicts on the page in the shape of monsters and gargoyles tormenting him. Under the pressure of a rising fever, S... Read More about “A Grotesque, Incurable Disease”: Whiteness as Illness in Gabby Schulz’s Sick.

Food & Trembling: An Entertainment, Jonah Campbell, Invisible Publishing, 2011, 232 pages (2013)
Journal Article
Køhlert, F. B. (2013). Food & Trembling: An Entertainment, Jonah Campbell, Invisible Publishing, 2011, 232 pages. CuiZine, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.7202/1015502ar

The title of Jonah Campbell’s blog, from which the short essays collected in Food & Trembling have been adapted, is Still Crapulent After All These Years. It is a fitting title, and not only because Campbell’s forays into writing about food more ofte... Read More about Food & Trembling: An Entertainment, Jonah Campbell, Invisible Publishing, 2011, 232 pages.

Female grotesques: carnivalesque subversion in the comics of Julie Doucet (2012)
Journal Article
Køhlert, F. B. (2012). Female grotesques: carnivalesque subversion in the comics of Julie Doucet. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 3(1), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2012.703883

The comics of Julie Doucet can be productively interpreted in light of Mikhail Bakhtin's exploration of the carnivalesque and its aesthetic expression as grotesque realism. By employing subject matter and a visual style grounded in the grotesque, Dou... Read More about Female grotesques: carnivalesque subversion in the comics of Julie Doucet.