Telling through Images: The Representation of the Battle of Somme by Joe Sacco

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Valéria Sabrina
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Literatura e Autoritarismo
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/LA/article/view/25173
• topic: First World War; Somme; Comics; Panorama; Primeira Guerra; Somme; Quadrinhos; Panorama

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the First World War, the graphic novelist Joe Sacco published The Great War. July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme, an illustrated panorama about seven meters long without any text. In this paper, it will be discussed how the choice for the first day of the Battle of the Somme as the event that should represent the whole war, the one-sided perspective (the British) and the representation of the army as “a whole organism” function as a sort of argumentation in this illustrated representation of the war. The booklet that comes together with the book will also be analyzed. It brings notes from the cartoonist Sacco that function as a sort of informative subtitle to the drawing, as well as a text by the journalist Adam Hochschild that narrates the events of that day.