ABSTRACT
After 1989, political, social, and economic transformation reoriented Polish society towards a new reality founded on the ideas of neoliberalism. Images of Poland's post-communist transformation have become the subject of many popular culture texts, among them the graphic novel Osiedle Swoboda by writer and artist Michal Sledzinski, originally serialized in Produkt magazine. This chapter aims to present a picture of Poland's transformation from the point of view of the younger generation of Poles born in the late 1970s. Osiedle Swoboda can be read and interpreted from two complementary perspectives. The first is the so-called new historicism, according to which a text of popular culture should be read in its social and cultural as well as political context. Neoliberalism, understood as a set of ideas shaping the economy and politics, attracts the attention of researchers from various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.
