Antijunak v stripu : diplomsko delo

Antauer, Gašper (author), Selan, Jurij (mentor), Podobnik, Uršula (co-mentor)

V diplomskem delu sem raziskoval splošen pojav antijunaka v popularnem stripu. Najprej sem odgovoril na vprašanja, kdo ali kaj je arhetipski junak, kakšna je njegova tradicionalna vloga skozi zgodovino pripovedništva, kakšne so njegove vizualne in značajske lastnosti ter katere tipe junakov poznamo v mitološkem smislu. S tem izhodiščem sem analiziral vlogo antijunaka v mitološki in literarni zgodovini, kje in kdaj se je pojem prvič pojavil ter na kratko opisal prehod, ki je antijunaka postavil v vlogo protagonista v dvajsetem stoletju. Skupaj s krajšo zgodovino popularnega ameriškega stripa sem predstavil v njem razvit pojem superjunaka. Zanimalo me je, kako se je razvijal od nastanka v zlati dobi stripa vse do temnega veka sredi osemdesetih let, ko je antijunak pridobil na popularnosti. Najbolj znanega superjunaka Supermana in antijunaka Batmana sem likovno in značajsko primerjal s pomočjo njunih prvih naslovnic. Posebno poglavje sem namenil deloma Franka Millerja (Batman: Temni vitez se vrača) in Alana Moora (Varuhi), vpliv katerih je prispeval k splošni popularizaciji stripovskega antijunaka in k odraščanju medija. V zadnjem teoretičnem poglavju sem na splošno opredelil najbolj poznane kategorije antijunakov v stripu ter vsebinsko in likovno analiziral nekatere bolj znane junake. Za praktični del sem teorijo podkrepil z avtorskim antijunakom, o katerem sem narisal kratek strip. V pedagoškem delu pa sem temo predstavil manjši skupini učencev, ki so ilustrirali lastne antijunake. Njihova dela sem interpretiral in jih preko teoretičnega razmišljanja umestil v stripovsko sfero.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: junak, antijunak, superjunak, strip in sekvenčna umetnost, stripovski veki
• Work type: Undergraduate thesis
• Typology: 2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publisher: [G. Antauer]
• Year: 2015
• Number of pages: 122 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-72653
• UDC: 741.52(043.2)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10705737
• Publication date in RUL: 29.09.2015

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: The antihero in comics

Abstract

In this thesis I researched the general appearance of the antihero in popular comics. Firstly I answered the questions who or what is the archetypal hero, what is his traditional role through history of storytelling, his visual and characteristic attributes and what types of heroes do we know of in the mythological sense. From there I analysed the role of the antihero in mythological and literal history, where and when the term appeared and summarised the transition that turned the antihero into a protagonist in the 20th century. Through a short history of popular American comic books I present the invention of the term superhero. I was interested in how it developed since its inception in the golden age of comics until the Dark Age of mid-eighties when the antihero became popular. Using the comics’ first covers I compared visual characteristics of the most famous superhero Superman and antihero Batman. A special chapter is devoted to the works of Frank Miller (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) and Alan Moore (Watchmen) whose influence contributed to the general popularisation of the comic book antihero and to the growing-up of the medium. In the last theoretical chapter I defined the most common categories of antiheroes in comics and summarised and artistically analysed one of their most known heroes in each of them. For the practical part I supplemented theory with an authorial antihero of whom I drew a short comic. In the pedagogical part I presented the theme to a small group of pupils which then illustrated their own antiheroes. I interpreted and connected their work with the theoretical understanding of the comic book sphere.

• Keywords: hero