Pablo De Santis and the police officer in comic strips: theory and practice
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Pablo De Santis, Historieta, Género policial, Narrativa argentinaAbstract
I propose an interpretation based on the ways in which detective fiction is presented and represented in comics and essays by Pablo De Santis. In the first place, I maintain an hypothesis that allows to unite his comic and essays’s productions with his “adult” literature, based on two arguments: on the one hand, the detective fiction genre unites the two narratives; on the other, they differ in the fact that his literature is closer to the classic detective fiction, while his comics tend to approach the hard-boiled fiction. Secondly, I review some of De Santis’s theories about comics, mainly those linked with the hard-boiled fiction, the preeminence of the urban environment and the question of how to make a national detective literature. Finally, according to my hypothesis on detective fiction, I analyze his scriptwriting practice in two comic books published in 2016: Justicia poética y Cobalto.
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