Comic Book Translation: Beyond Words?

Abstract

The objective of this research is to study a comic book translation; this is to find out whether the process of translation is the same across genres or is it any different when it comes to the translation of a comic book. For this study, a British comic book The Murder Corporation by A Fleetway Super Library and its Tamil translation Sathigarar Sangam by Lion-muthu Comics is scrutinized. This research marks the differences between the source and the translated material to show that translation is not a mere word for word conversion, as it is faithful to the original text and at the same time very conscious about the target audience who are to read the translation.

Keywords

• translation
• multi-modal
• rendering
• censorship
• loss and gain