Classified "A" by ANVUR in the fields 11/D1, 11/D2 Scientific in the field 14.
Abstract:
The paper aims to denounce the forms of online hate speech (Pasta, 2019, pp. 173-190; Santerini, 2021, pp. 64-74) promoted since 2016 by the US far-right movement Comicsgate (Condis & Stanfill, 2022, pp. 953-980) against the recent comic book production published by DC and Marvel, accused of showing women portrayed in masculine attitudes and features. This movement was partially inspired by the theories exposed in Frederic Wertham’s volume Seduction of the Innocent (1954), where he accused comics of promoting a subversive characterization of femininity (Tilley, 2018, pp. 354-372). The failure of the two major US comic book publishers, whose products are marketed throughout the West, to take a stand against Comicsgate shows a lack of acknowledgement of the role played by comics in the construction of European children and adolescents’ collective imagination.
