{"title":"The Representation of Traumatic Memory in Spanish Comics","authors":"Juan Carlos Pérez García","doi":"10.3167/eca.2018.110204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2018.110204","url":null,"abstract":"The graphic representation of traumatic memory of war disasters constitutes\u0000a broad tradition that can be traced back to Francisco Goya. Comics,\u0000with the resources provided by their textual-visual narrative, have been part\u0000of that tradition especially since the 1950s. However, representing traumatic\u0000memory of war disasters is troublesome, in regard to the artists’ strategies\u0000and public reception – as shown by the conflicts between memory, history\u0000and myth posed in these works. This article develops a comparative study\u0000of traumatic memories in Spanish comics and presents an analysis of the\u0000modes of representation in works such as Carlos Giménez’s Paracuellos,\u0000Francisco Gallardo Sarmiento and Miguel Gallardo’s Un largo silencio, Antonio\u0000Altarriba and Kim’s El arte de volar and Paco Roca’s Los surcos del azar.","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74575524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tintin in the Movida Madrileña","authors":"L. Valencia-García","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2018.110202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2018.110202","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces ways in which comic fanzines of the late 1970s and early\u00001980s transgressed against and conformed to accepted Spanish constructions\u0000of gender and sexuality of the day. Research is drawn from close readings\u0000of comics found in zines of the period, such as 96 Lágrimas, Ediciones\u0000moulinsart and Kaka de Luxe. Young Madrileños literally drew on images\u0000and tropes from a variety of sources, from punk musicians to Tintin in the\u0000Congo, making them their own. Through fanzines, often sold in Madrid’s\u0000Rastro, a Roma marketplace, young people became cultural producers, creating\u0000a culture that was postmodern and anti-fascist.","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80573415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dissenting Voices?: Controlling Children’s Comics under Franco","authors":"Rhiannon McGlade","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2018.110103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2018.110103","url":null,"abstract":"\"The author would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the AHRC in the preparation of this article, which was funded as part of the research project, Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies, under the Open World Research Initiative.\"","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"77 1","pages":"30-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83231618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Criticism through Humour in the Digital Age: Multimodal Extension in the Works of Aleix Saló","authors":"Javier Muñoz-Basols, Marina Massaguer Comes","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2018.110107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2018.110107","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous authors of comics and graphic novels have used the economic crisis in the Iberian Peninsula as a narrative frame for social criticism. Prominent amongst them is the Catalan cartoonist Aleix Saló, who burst onto the comics scene with his animated YouTube video Españistán, a book trailer for his graphic novel Españistán: Este país se va a la mierda [Españistán: This country is going to hell] (2011). This article shows how Saló offers a humorous and didactic portrait of the devastating effects of the economic crisis: he does this through multimodality (using specific shapes, colours, fonts and components of orality) and through creating ‘multimodal extensions’, intertextual relations between published books and book trailers. This analysis presents a case study of the multimodal techniques that authors use to shape and develop their work in the context of the powerful relationship between text and image in the digital age.","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"1 1","pages":"107-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83944277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Pioneer of Comics to Cultural Myth: Castelao in Galician Graphic Biography","authors":"David Miranda-Barreiro","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2018.110105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2018.110105","url":null,"abstract":"The multifaceted Galician artist, writer and politician Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (1886-1950) has been considered a pioneer of Galician comics or banda deseñada due to his key role in the development of the medium, from his early comic strips in the magazine Vida Gallega [Galician Life] (1909), to the cartoons he published in the press in the 1920s and 1930s. Furthermore, Castelao has also become a comics character in a number of graphic biographies since the end of the 1970s, which the article will examine, not only addressing the reasons for the recurrent presence of Castelao in Galician comics but also how they have contributed to the process of mythologisation of this important figure of Galician culture. In aesthetic terms, it will reveal the similarities between adaptation, biography and comics when analysing them as networks.","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"27 1","pages":"66-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77242175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"For He Bestirred Himself to Protect the Land from the Moors","authors":"I. Macinnes","doi":"10.3167/ECA.20178110104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.20178110104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"42 1","pages":"48-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77628110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘For He Bestirred Himself to Protect the Land from the Moors’: Depicting the Medieval Reconquista in Modern Spanish Graphic Novels","authors":"I. Macinnes","doi":"10.3167/ECA.2018.110104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ECA.2018.110104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"105 1","pages":"48-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88035126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ally Sloper, Escape Magazine and the Situation of English Comics","authors":"Nicholas Robinette","doi":"10.3167/eca.2017.100206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2017.100206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"20 1","pages":"84-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80269263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Santiago García (trans. Bruce Campbell), On the Graphic Novel","authors":"David Miranda-Barreiro","doi":"10.3167/eca.2017.100207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2017.100207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40846,"journal":{"name":"European Comic Art","volume":"120 1","pages":"103-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76003856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}