Read Between the Lines: Ager Management Comics

• Autor(a) principal: Figueiredo, Sofia
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/7158
• topic: Autobiographical comics; image semiotics; short comics; webcomics

This paper analyzes the webcomic series Anger Management Comics (AMC), or its multiple aspects, trying to problematize current and past processes of creation and reception of autobiographical comics. AMC relies on page composition, image semiotics, text as image, and other textless strategies to communicate, avoiding verbal communication. It is also constituted by single page stories, or strips/4 panel arrangements. As an autobiographic effort, AMC focuses on seemingly unimportant everyday life events, conveying them in heroic, scripted, conventional ways. In this respect it follows in the footsteps of giants, to whom it will be compared. It also functions as a crisis management tool to its author, and, again, will be compared to other works, as a tool for analysis of the work.