Documenting and Archiving in the Comics  Series “¡Todo Bien! Historias de perdón y reconciliación”

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Published: Jul 10, 2024
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Documentary comics, Colombian armed conflict, memory, document, archive.

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Laura Andrade Quintero
Universidad Iberoamericana CDMX
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0834-0435

Abstract

This article examines the documentary practice of comics, focusing on the series “¡Todo Bien! Historias de perdón y reconciliación,” published in 2020 by the newspaper El Espectador in Colombia in both print and animated formats on YouTube. It seeks to explore how the use of records and documents awakens memory and enables the activation of an archive to unearth the past. It also investigates how documentary comics dispossess authorial voice to collectively represent experiences of the armed conflict. This analysis reveals how documentary comics facilitate the reconstruction of memories of the past amidst the Colombian necropolis.

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Vol. 63 (2024): Traces of the Colombian Comic: One Hundred Years of Identity
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Articles
Author Biography

Laura Andrade Quintero, Universidad Iberoamericana CDMX

She holds a degree in Spanish, English, and French from the Universidad de la Salle in Bogotá and a master's degree in Art Studies from the Universidad Iberoamericana-CDMX. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Modern Literature at the same institution. She has worked as a teacher of foreign languages, academic writing, and topics related to imagery at various institutions in both Colombia and Mexico. She is currently researching the possibilities of documentary comics and other types of graphic narratives to represent social issues and their connections with memory and documentation. She has published various articles on these topics, particularly on Colombian documentary comics.