KANLI KOCA OĞLU KAN TURALI KARİKATÜR BANDININ GÖSTERGEBİLİMSEL BİR ÇÖZÜMLEMESİ
A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF THE “KANLI KOCA OĞLU KAN TURALI” COMIC STRIP

Summary/Abstract: In this study, the story of “Kanlı Koca oğlu Kan Turalı”, one of Dede Korkut tribes, and its comic strip published in the 2015/3 issue of the Naber magazine by Umut Sarıkaya is addressed with a semiotic approach. The epic story in the sixth place of the Dresden copy of Dede Korkut stories has been moved from the verbal culture to the written culture and then to the comic strip dimension. A comparison is made based on the narration of the text through caricaturization in a new context and on the transformation of the text into a humor text, and then the semiotic method is applied to the text. In the article, the transformation of “Kanlı Koca oğlu Kan Turalı” within the humorous context is also addressed. In order to understand the humor of the caricature text, the importance of knowing the main text and having cultural codes is evaluated. Based on the argument that the transformations experienced in the transfer of the narrative sensure continuity, the changes in the text in the comic strip are explored within the semiotic context. Drawing on the argument that Dede Korkut tribes are one of the most important works of the Turkish nation with cultural codes, a semiotic reading of the text will reveal many explicit and implicit meanings and functions of culture. For this reason, it is of great significance to make interpretations based on cultural codes in the analyses to be made. Given the significance of the comic strip for Turkish culture and literature, their importance of reading the changes in humor in the text structure using the semiotic method will become apparent.

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