The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape, and Comics Form

326 Pages·2019·39.896 MB·English

by  Benjamin Fraser

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
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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.
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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
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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)