Four everyday approaches in contemporary comics
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https://doi.org/10.14393/artc-v21-n39-2019-52026Keywords:
everyday, comics, boredomAbstract
This paper discusses the recent growing presence of the everyday in comics, works where ordinary situations and apparently insignificant events take the place of extraordinary worlds and adventure stories. Drawing predominantly from the French perspective of Everyday Studies (Lefebvre and Blanchot), the ambiguous dynamics of the everyday will be here studied in relation to the contrasting concepts of boredom and strangeness. The aim is to separate comics that tackle the everyday into optimistic and pessimistic approaches. In this way, it is possible to identify the works that lament the ordinariness of the everyday (derisive humour, ennui) from those that turn the everyday into something invested with interest (contemplation and observational comedy).
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