L’entrée d’un héros de bande dessinée dans la culture sonore de l’enfance : le cas de Yakari en 1983

Abstract

This article studies how a comics character, present since 1969 in the paper universe of French-speaking children, entered their sound culture in 1983. In that year, the acoustic dimension of the comics series created by the Swiss authors Derib (Claude de Ribaupierre) and Job (André Jobin) was developed through a series of television cartoons, which brought Yakari not only to the small screen, but also, through its spin-off products, to the record player. These early experiments with sound developed the appropriation of the drawn work by the ear, while allowing the listener new multimodal and multisensory uses of paper objects, particularly in the case of book-and-record sets. This paper successively studies the production and reception of the sound of the multimedia universe of Yakari available in 1983.

Keywords

• childhood
• material culture
• transmedia storytelling
• comic book
• audio narration