Table of Contents

Part I: General Aspects

1. Federico Zanettin

Comics in Translation: An Overview

2. Nadine Celotti

The Translator of Comics as a Semiotic Investigator

3. Heike Elisabeth Jüngst

Translating Manga

4. Valerio Rota

Aspects of Adaptation. The Translation of Comics Formats

Part II: Case Studies

5. Raffaella Baccolini and Federico Zanettin

The Language of Trauma: Art Spiegelman's Maus and its Translations

6. Adele D'Arcangelo

'Slime Hero from the Swamp': The Italian Editions of Alan Moore's Horror Saga The Swamp Thing

7. Jehan Zitawi

Disney Comics in the Arab Culture(s). A Pragmatic Perspective

8. Heike Elisabeth Jüngst

Translating Educational Comics

9. Federico Zanettin

The Translation of Comics as Localization. On Three Italian Translations of La piste des Navajos

10. Elena Di Giovanni

The Winx Club as a Challenge to Globalization. Translating from Italy to the Rest of the World

11. Carmen Valero Garcés

Onomatopoeia and Unarticulated Language in the Translation of Comic Books. The Case of Comics in Spanish

12. Catherine Delesse

Proper Names, Onomastic Puns and Spoonerisms: Some Aspects of the Translation of the Astérix and Tintin Comic Series, with Special Reference to English

13. Federico Zanettin

Comics in Translation. An Annotated Bibliography

About the Author

Federico Zanettin is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Perugia. In addition to comics in translation, his research interests include corpus-based translation studies and intercultural communication. He has published widely in these areas, and is co-editor of Corpora in Translator Education (2002), and of the periodicals Translation Studies Abstracts and the Bibliography of Translation Studies and inTRAlinea, an online journal of translation studies.