Translating US Underground Comix in Italy: A Semiotic Perspective on Satire and Subversion

This book analyses 1960s-1970s US underground comix, a ‘counterculture’ art form that satirised mainstream values and taboos. The author observes comix in their multimodal components in the original English-language versions and in their Italian translations by unpacking the several layers of verbal and visual meaning-making. She then goes on to scrutinise translation and resemiotisation processes, including modifications, mitigations, and omissions, encompassing socio-historical and cross-...