TY - JOUR

T1 - From Pioneer of Comics to Cultural Myth

T2 - Castelao in Galician Graphic Biography

AU - Miranda-Barreiro, David

N1 - Please use accepted version: 2018 From pioneer comics to cultural myths as this is the most up-to-date version

PY - 2018/3/1

Y1 - 2018/3/1

N2 - The multifaceted Galician artist, writer and politician Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (1886-1950) has been considered a pioneer of Galician comics or banda deseñada due to his key role in the development of the medium, from his early comic strips in the magazine Vida Gallega [Galician Life] (1909), to the cartoons he published in the press in the 1920s and 1930s. Furthermore, Castelao has also become a comics character in a number of graphic biographies since the end of the 1970s, which the article will examine, not only addressing the reasons for the recurrent presence of Castelao in Galician comics but also how they have contributed to the process of mythologisation of this important figure of Galician culture. In aesthetic terms, it will reveal the similarities between adaptation, biography and comics when analysing them as networks.

AB - The multifaceted Galician artist, writer and politician Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (1886-1950) has been considered a pioneer of Galician comics or banda deseñada due to his key role in the development of the medium, from his early comic strips in the magazine Vida Gallega [Galician Life] (1909), to the cartoons he published in the press in the 1920s and 1930s. Furthermore, Castelao has also become a comics character in a number of graphic biographies since the end of the 1970s, which the article will examine, not only addressing the reasons for the recurrent presence of Castelao in Galician comics but also how they have contributed to the process of mythologisation of this important figure of Galician culture. In aesthetic terms, it will reveal the similarities between adaptation, biography and comics when analysing them as networks.

KW - Castelao

KW - Galicia

KW - Adaptation

KW - Graphic biography

KW - Banda Deseñada

KW - ‘biomythography’

U2 - 10.3167/eca.2018.110105

DO - 10.3167/eca.2018.110105

M3 - Article

VL - 11

SP - 66

EP - 86

JO - European Comic Art

JF - European Comic Art

SN - 1754-3797

IS - 1

ER -