Comics and the Body

Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability

Bibliographic Data

ID5795004
AuthorsEzster Szép (corresponding author), Eszter Szép (0000-0002-6227-1207)
Year2020
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueComics and the Body (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe Ohio State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26818/9780814214541
OpenAlexW4213089096
Open LibraryOL36833518M
ISBN9780814214541
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited12

C O M I C S is not only a performance of our cognitive skills, it is also a performance and interaction of bodies.I remember clearly the morning when I was reading Miriam Katin's autobiographical graphic narrative, Letting It Go (2013) in the bathtub: What a charming colorful book of memories and mundane events, what a modern old lady talking to her son via Skype, I thought.The book deals with the everyday activities of a comic book artist called Miriam, and the process of her learning to accept that her son plans to settle in Germany, a country that she still associates with the Holocaust and her childhood traumas.I remember marveling at the courage Katin has in drawing caricatures of herself, showing the character that stands for her in a series of unflattering situations, like freaking out at the sight of cockroaches.Katin representing Miriam occasionally almost as a witch, with ridiculous uncombed hair, big bulging eyes, and in an old-school nightgown.What irony, I thought.The narrative is equally honest and uncompromising about the prejudices of the old hag in a nightie.But I was not prepared to see the naked body of the protagonist of this confessional narrative covered in her own excrement.I winced.The scene is in full color and is long

Vulnerability · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Digital Games and Media · Comic books, strips · Comic books, strips, etc · Comic books, strips, etc., history and criticism · Gender identity · History and criticism · Human body in literature · Literature

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