ABSTRACT

Over the past several decades, slice-of-life stories have been increasing in the contemporary field of comic books. Interesting changes started in the West with the underground movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when cartoonists’ lives themselves became a subject (Beaty 2009), a stark contrast from, and challenge to, the domain of superhero action-adventure stories. That new perspective gave space to narratives far removed from the heroic experience. They were based on the subject of common, everyday life.