Obrazy nieoglądalne ? : tabu choroby, niepełnosprawności i śmierci w komiksie

Abstract

The author takes into consideration four subjectively chosen and unpublished in Poland graphic novels: It’s a Bird (2004), The Spiral Cage (2003), Our Cancer Year (1994) and Mom’s Cancer (2008). All of them, using similar dramaturgic strategies, become starting points for visually diversified stories. Each of them in a unique, innovative, and above all universal way rise an issue of overcoming taboo in public reflection on shame, suffering, fear and humiliation which can be results of disease, affliction, or physical disability.