A term originating from Bande Dessinée tradition ( tranche de vie ), that is, from Franco-Belgian comics market, which describes works focused on everyday life filtered by a mundane perspective (complex job circumstances such as dismissal or bad relationships between co-workers; sentimental relationships in crisis, etc.). It is often linked to autobiographical comics and, therefore, it represents one of the most common subgenres within the Graphic Novel movement (check this key term as well).
Published in Chapter:
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).