The comics are others, or How the modern comics originates and differentiates itself in the historical frame of 1968

Abstract

In the 1960s, a difference insistes itself in the comics world. The tensions with the art world; the explosion of underground comix and alternative manga; the defense of the auteur comics and oriented towards the mature audiences; the abundance of satirical magazines and the emergence of erotic and luxurious albums; the run-in of the intelligentsia with the comics, etc. In 1968, these events seem to produce a historical panel of more defined outlines, allowing contemporary comic theory to draw the line of separation that originates the modern comics. However, it is radically questionable what difference the modern could frame. To do so, it will take an anachronistic approach to history, operating a conceptual investigation from the very edge of the concept. With the help of other appropriate writings of the period by authors like Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida, it is expected to trace how the difference of the comics is split and decided.