TY - JOUR

T1 - Towards an Ecographics

T2 - Ecological Storylines in Bande dessinée

AU - Blin-Rolland, Armelle

PY - 2022/9

Y1 - 2022/9

N2 - What role do comics have to play in cultural conversations about and in the face of environmental collapse and mass extinction? This article takes bande dessinée as a case study to propose the concept of ecological storylines as part of an ecographics that recognises the specificities of comics as a drawn and narrative medium as well as its shifting place in culture. This is developed with reference to a range of graphic texts and along three axes. The article first explores drawing as material practice in ecographic engagements with radioactivity, gender and landscape. It then turns to redrawing as a mode of contestation as well as repair on a postcolonial planet, before closing with a discussion of flowlines across panels, pages, human and nonhuman bodies and across cityscapes, seascapes and petroscapes.

AB - What role do comics have to play in cultural conversations about and in the face of environmental collapse and mass extinction? This article takes bande dessinée as a case study to propose the concept of ecological storylines as part of an ecographics that recognises the specificities of comics as a drawn and narrative medium as well as its shifting place in culture. This is developed with reference to a range of graphic texts and along three axes. The article first explores drawing as material practice in ecographic engagements with radioactivity, gender and landscape. It then turns to redrawing as a mode of contestation as well as repair on a postcolonial planet, before closing with a discussion of flowlines across panels, pages, human and nonhuman bodies and across cityscapes, seascapes and petroscapes.

KW - drawing

KW - ecofeminism

KW - environmental humanities;

KW - petro-culture

KW - trans-corporeality

KW - postcolonial ecocriticism

U2 - 10.3167/eca.2022.150206

DO - 10.3167/eca.2022.150206

M3 - Article

VL - 15

SP - 107

EP - 131

JO - European Comic Art

JF - European Comic Art

SN - 1754-3797

IS - 2

ER -