Open AccessVISUAL ESSAY: The Auteur and The Personal Comic: A Reconstruction of Online Identities
Author(s) -
Gideon Kamang Frederick
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ultimart
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2615-8124
pISSN - 1979-0716
DOI - 10.31937/ultimart.v13i2.1899
Subject(s) - comics , auteur theory , art , identity (music) , visual arts , literature , sociology , aesthetics , movie theater
When comic artist creates a personal comic, whose identities portrayed in the comic? Himself or his reconstructed image? More so, when the comic is published in social media, many viewers presumed that the comic is a mirror of the auteur life itself. This is where the constructed identities and real identities is reconstructed: negotiated, blurred between fiction and non-fiction.