El otoño en los bosques

  1. José Manuel Trabado 1
  1. 1 Universidad de León
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    Universidad de León

    León, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02tzt0b78

Journal:
Tebeosfera: Cultura Gráfica

ISSN: 1579-2811

Year of publication: 2017

Issue: 3

Type: Article

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Abstract

This paper aims to study some narrative devices used by Frank King in order to create a singularized comic strip like Gasoline Alley. His innovations first emerge from the thematic level and have a deep emotional impact. Soon these innovations spread over the graphic level making possible what can be labelled as a sort of misreading of the dreamlike McCay´s Sunday page model. By this and other strategies Frank King reaches a new creative stage that allows him to build up what I propose to denominate “thematic marks” such as Walt and Skeezix´s autumn walks in the woods. Through a close reading of this “thematic marks”, based on the dialectic process of repetition and variation, we can study how such a long-running comic strip like Gasoline Alley evolves adapting both its formal and thematic features without renouncing to its identity.

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