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About Some Spanish Graphic Novels in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Cathartic Panels for the End of the World
Eduard Baile-López (Universitat d'Alacant, Spain)
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4735-2.ch006
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to attend to comics produced during COVID-19 pandemic, especially those referring to the hardest moments of confinement and which may allow to observe the use of comics as a tool to analyze reality, both from a psychological point of view and from a sociopolitical one. Being such a recent phenomenon, corpus selection is introduced as temporary since new items continue to emerge, and furthermore, it is still early to assess its significance. As a pragmatic criterion, two vectors will be used: on the one hand, focus will be stressed on works belonging to the Spanish comics market in order to portray a particular cultural environment; on the other hand, four items will be selected to establish a coherent story which may adapt the stages of the hero's journey into a new paradigm (1. Fear, 2. Anger, 3. Humor, and 4. Healing).