ABSTRACT

In a spirit of community and collective action, this volume offers insights into the complexity of the political imagination and its cultural scope within Spanish graphic narrative through the lens of global political and social movements.

Developed during the critical years of the COVID-19 pandemic and global lockdown, the volume and its chapters reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the comic. They employ a cultural studies approach with different theoretical frameworks ranging from debates within comics studies, film and media theory, postcolonialism, feminism, economics, multimodality, aging, aesthetics, memory studies, food studies, and sound studies, among others. Scholars and students working in these areas will find the book to be an insightful and impactful resource.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|23 pages

La burbuja del alquiler en el cómic

Mass Tourism, Gentrification, and Spain's Housing Crisis in Todo bajo el sol (2021), Soy de Pueblo: Manual Para Sobrevivir en la Ciudad (2011), and Coqueto, mejor ver (2019)

chapter 2|27 pages

Drawing Upon Silence

Decolonial Political Protest in the Comics of Ramón Esono Ebalé

chapter 3|23 pages

Dystopia and Multimodality in Spanish Comics

Hoy es un buen día para morir (2016) by Jesús Colomina Orgaz (Colo)

chapter 5|23 pages

Memories of the Material Body

Virtual Visibility and the Rise of Cyber Zines in Contemporary Spain

chapter 6|19 pages

Estamos todas bien as craftivism

Your War or Our Struggles?

chapter 7|20 pages

From Barcelona's Underground to Madrid's Movida

Queer Interventions through Comics in the Spanish Transition

chapter 8|15 pages

Hungry for Identity

Graphic Narratives and Food in Spain

chapter 9|24 pages

Listening to the Sounds

Acoustic Trauma, Silences, Subaltern Words and Songs as a Source of Memory and Political Imagination in the Spanish Graphic Novel of the 21st Century 1

chapter 11|14 pages

The Four Walls of Oblivion

Mediating Female History in Kim and Antonio Altarriba's El ala rota (2016)

chapter 12|19 pages

Bringing Migration into Perspective(s)

Javier de Isusi's Asӯlum as a Call to Solidarity through Multidirectional Memory