Open AccessHistoricising the Emergence of Comics Art Scholarship in Spain, 1965–1975
Author(s) -
Antonio LázaroReboll
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
european comic art
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1754-3797
pISSN - 1754-3800
DOI - 10.3167/eca.2018110102
Subject(s) - comics , scholarship , reading (process) , object (grammar) , field (mathematics) , art , constitution , relation (database) , visual arts , history , art history , literature , sociology , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , mathematics , database , pure mathematics
This article traces the formation of comics art scholarship in Spain from1965 to 1975. This decade witnessed the beginning of the study of comicsas a serious object of cultural analysis. Reading formations surrounding themedium – in particular, historical and critical reading protocols – and a setof key critical debates were concurrent with the establishment and the developmentof mass communication studies as an incipient field of research inSpain in the mid-1960s. The aim of this article is to provide a close examinationof the first generation of critics participating in and writing aboutthe scene in relation to hitherto overlooked local and transnational contextsthat shaped the constitution of the Spanish field of comics.