Ni violencia ni sexoEl reflejo de las campañas anticómic en la obra de Alan Moore

  1. Ignacio Fernández Sarasola 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

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Journal:
Tebeosfera: Cultura Gráfica

ISSN: 1579-2811

Year of publication: 2023

Issue Title: El Día del Tebeo

Issue: 22

Type: Article

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Abstract

Popular culture, in its various manifestations, is a constant in Alan Moore's work. The anti-comics campaign that persecuted comics is also reflected in his works, mostly hidden and from a satirical point of view. In his comic books there are references to some of the issues questioned by the anti-comic campaign, but also to the protagonists and to the crusade itself, which between 1940 and 1960 subjected the medium to deep control.

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