A term which refers to a group of comics artists who, in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, resignified the graphic and narrative legacy of Valencian School (check this key term as well), to adapt it to works aimed at an adult audience, although young fiction items were also produced. As far as page layout is concerned, they were much influenced by Ligne Claire trends (an extreme sense of geometrical balance which makes every element included in a page to be perfectly positioned) through Tintin and other Franco-Belgian series, which is the reason why this movement was also called Valencian Ligne Claire .
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).