El còmic a Mallorca durant els anys vuitanta. Un mitjà de renovació cultural

Abstract

Summary: The comic of the 1980s in Mallorca presents some peculiarities which are a consequence of the period following Franco's death. The first, rather primitive examples of this new type of comic appeared around 1976, mostly in the form of socalled fanzines, which were directly related to the renewal of the visual arts, not only in the media, but especially those of the avantgarde. As early as 1983, the first magazines appeared that were distributed by commercial infrastructure and that aimed to renew conservative Majorcan society. This development eventually caused the comic to acquire characteristics, which gradually led this form of art towards postmodernism. The present article analyzes the role of comics as a medium of cultural renewal, arguing that the comics produced in the island be understood as an element of transcendence towards new forms of creation. [Keywords: Fanzine; Postmodernism; marginal culture; visual arts]