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Abstract

This article focuses on the translation of educational comics. A cartoon book and its’ Turkish translation are analyzed: The Cartoon History of the Universe Volumes 1-7 From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (1990) by Larry Gonick and its’ translation by…. printed in 2010 published by …… The aim of the study is to analyze an educational cartoon translation from the translator’s perspective (referring to constraints, translation challenges, translator choices etc.) and to focus on the same texts from a translation critic/editor perspective who does not have previous knowledge about the section penned by the translator. The objective is to compare the text intended by the translator and the text written through the lenses of the professional translation critic/editor and to pinpoint differences and similarities and viewpoints. Furthermore, in the conclusion the article underlines the importance of the use of this approach and the actor-network theory in investigating educational material in cartoon format. The introduction outlines that cartoons and comics are less studied within translation studies and that they need to be thoroughly investigated. A literature review on the translation of comics and cartoons follows this section. Since the corpus to be studied in English and its’ translation into Turkish, a section on the Turkish translations of such publications is added. The next section is about the translation of educational material in cartoon format. The next sub section refers to the source text followed by the methodology, the analysis of the translator the analysis of the editor. The discussion section collates both analysis sections, the difference of point of view and similarities are discussed. The conclusion presents a summary of the findings.