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The ArT of Pere Jo An WORLD COMICS & GRAPHIC NONFICTION SERIES Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González, editors The World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction series includes monographs and edited volumes that focus on the analysis and interpretation of comic books and graphic nonfiction from around the world. The books published in the series use analytical approaches from literature, art history, cultural studies, communication studies, media studies, and film studies, among other fields, to help define the comic book studies field at a time of great vitality and growth. The Art of B en J A m in f r A s er s p a C e , L a n d sC a p e , Pere Joan a n d C o m i C s F o r m University of t ex as Press aUstin Copyright © 2019 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2019 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713- 7819 utpress .utexas .edu /rp - form The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48- 1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). c Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Fraser, Benjamin, author. Title: The art of Pere Joan : space, landscape, and comics form / Benjamin Fraser. Other titles: World comics and graphic nonfiction series. Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019. | Series: World comics and graphic nonfiction series | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018031174 | ISBN 978-1-4773-1812-6 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-4773-1813-3 (library e-book) | ISBN 978-1-4773-1814-0 (nonlibrary e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Joan, Pere—Criticism and interpretation. | Comic books, strips, etc.—Spain—Majorca—History and criticism. | Majorca (Spain)—Comic books, strips, etc. Classification: LCC PN6777.J63 Z63 2019 | DDC 741.5/946—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018031174 doi:10.7560/318126 i d e d i C at e t h i s b o o k t o a b b y. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ConTenTs ix LIST OF ILLuSTRATIONS xi PREFACE xv SELECTED ARTIST CHRONOLOGy xvii IMPORTANT NOTE ON SPAIN FOR THE GENERAL READER 1 I NTRODuCTION Pere Joan’s Comics Geographies 31 C HAPTER 1 The Comics Landscape of Spain 59 CHAPTER 2 Topographies of the Image, Panel, and Page: Comics Narration Three Ways 93 Chapter 3 Rural Cartographies: Emotion, Ecology, and Subjectivity 135 C HAPTER 4 Urban Geographies: Cityscapes, Mobility, and Belonging 175 C HAPTER 5 Island Imaginaries: Mallorca’s Cultural Landscapes 201 CONCLuSION 205 NOTES 263 BIBLIOGRAPHy 291 INDEx THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK illus Tr ATions 9 FIGuRE 0.1. Pere Joan, Mi cabeza bajo el mar 12 FIGuRE 0.2. Pere Joan, “En el recuerdo” (p. 47) 18 F IGuRE 0.3. Pere Joan, “La lluvia blanca” (p. 123) 21 F IGuRE 0.4. Pere Joan, “Los mensajeros del cuerpo” (p. 85) 32 F IGuRE 1.1. Pere Joan, “En soledad” (p. 6) 65 F IGuRE 2.1. Pere Joan, “Untitled,” from Baladas Urbanas (p. 7) 76 F IGuRE 2.2. Pere Joan, “Diana piensa . . .” (p. 126) 79 FIGuRE 2.3. Pere Joan, Azul y ceniza (p. 3) 87 FIGuRE 2.4. Pere Joan, 100 pictogramas para un siglo (XX) (p. 124) 88 FIGuRE 2.5. Pere Joan, 100 pictogramas para un siglo (XX) (p. 83) 103 FIGuRE 3.1. Pere Joan, El aprendizaje de la lentitud (pp. 14–15) 113 FIGuRE 3.2. Pere Joan, El aprendizaje de la lentitud (p. 39) 115 FIGuRE 3.3. Pere Joan, El aprendizaje de la lentitud (pp. 44–45) 119 FIGuRE 3.4. Pere Joan, 16 novel·les amb hòmens blaus (p. 12) 123 FIGuRE 3.5. Pere Joan, 16 novel·les amb hòmens blaus (pp. 24–25) 132 FIGuRE 3.6. Pere Joan, Tingram (p. 102) 132 FIGuRE 3.7. Pere Joan, 16 novel·les amb hòmens blaus (pp. 38–39) 152 FIGuRE 4.1. Pere Joan and Emilio Manzano, “Un cocodril a l’Eixample” (p. 12)

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