Traumatic loss and productive impasse in comics: visual metaphors of depression and melancholia in Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's This One Summer

• Published in: Journal of graphic novels & comics Vol. 12; no. 5; pp. 516 - 534
• Main Author: Lewkowich, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 03.09.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Comics; Depression; Graphic novels; Grief; Mental depression; Metaphor; mourning and melancholia; Psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic theory; Tamaki, Jillian; Tamaki, Mariko; Trauma

In this paper, I explore how Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, in This One Summer, employ a variety of images and visual metaphors to address the emotional situations of traumatic loss. In this graphic novel, we encounter a character named Alice, who is often distracted and withdrawn, and appears to suffer...