Spanish Comics

Anne Magnussen is an associate professor at the Department of History, University of Southern Denmark, and co-editor of the journal European Comic Art.

“If anyone is planning a course on contemporary Spanish comics, please look no further. This title is the ideal companion for any class on this topic. On the other hand, one of the virtues of graphic narratives is the amount of information they can transmit about the culture, history, and politics of any location, making them a suitable vehicle for the examination of any context. Anne Magnussen’s edited volume is a flawless example of this aspect…Overall, Magnussen’s volume does a superb job bringing together a select group of scholars to discuss and examine the contemporary Spanish comics scene… Anyone reading this book will understand well why Spanish comics are thriving. Their effervescence and vibrancy denote an area of the national cultural industry that shows no signs of faltering or hesitancy,” • Comic Art Blog

• Introduction: Spanish Comics. Historical and Cultural PerspectivesAnne MagnussenChapter 1. Dissenting Voices? Controlling Children’s Comics under FrancoRhiannon McGladeChapter 2. Satirical Panels against Censorship. A Battle That Raged during the Spanish TransistionGerardo VilchesChapter 3. Tintin in the Movida Madrileña. Gender and Sexuality in the Punk Comic Book Zine SceneLouie Dean Valencia-GarcíaChapter 4. From Pioneer of Comics to Cultural Myth. Castelao in Galician Graphic BiographyDavid Miranda-BarreiroChapter 5. The Representation of Traumatic Memory in Spanish Comics. Remembering the Civil War and FrancoismJuan Carlos Pérez GarcíaChapter 6. ‘For He Bestirred Himself to Protect the Land from the Moors’. Depicting the Medieval Reconquista in Modern Spanish Graphic NovelsIain A. MacInnesChapter 7. An interview with Paco RocaEsther ClaudioChapter 8. ‘They Tried To Bury Us; They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds’: Intergenerational Memory and La CasaSarah D. HarrisChapter 9. Paco Roca’s Graphic Novel La Casa (2015) as Architectural ElegyBenjamin FraserChapter 10. Therapeutic Journeys in Contemporary Graphic NovelsAgatha MohringChapter 11. Social Criticism through Humour in the Digital Age. Multimodal Extension in the Works of Aleix SalóJavier Muñoz-Basols and Marina Massaguer ComesChapter 12. Historicising the Emergence of Comics Art Scholarship in Spain, 1965–1975Antonio Lázaro-Reboll