With or without humor, in the form of an uncensored essay or a fictional story, in the first person, in an informative tone, or in a journalistic investigation… comic uses all its resources. fight it climate change, raise awareness of the need take care of the planetcondemning human attacks against ecosystem and warn not of what is before us, but of what is already here. A lot news (and some extras) overlap in bookstores. All are suitable for deniers.
“Post-York”
The protagonist of this post-apocalyptic dystopia (inspired by the son of Eisner-nominated American cartoonist James Romberger) yells, “We don’t deserve this planet.” melting of the poles. He seeks life in the company of a single cat, trying to confront the Malvivs and other survivors and a privileged and unsupportive elite. Just arrived at bookstores, it suggests three possible developments for a fictional story that may be closer than we thought.
‘World without end’
Jancovici, a popular climatologist and popularizer, without hesitation accepted the offer of cartoonist Christophe Blain (“Quai d’Orsay”) to put together this tantalizing and provocative essay from cartoons in which the reader is dressed as an Iron Man superhero. and wonders if there is a solution to the climate catastrophe. A comic that dares to propose controversial measures among ecologists to stop it: warn of the risks and inadequacies of wind and solar power, and advocate for the role of nuclear power. A ‘best seller’ in France: over 500,000 copies have been sold.
‘We are the meteorite’
The clever Argentine cartoonist living in Spain, who left his mark with the title of this informative graphic article on climate change, explains in the first person, “We have a problem,” without giving up humor despite the seriousness of the subject. Darío Adanti describes how man brought the planet, and with it all species, to the brink of extinction. Take deniers’ reading and compelling scientific reports, such as who first warned that CO2 is causing global warming: feminist researcher Eunice Newton Foote, 1856! The future is already here, on the alert, whether we like it or not.
‘Green algae’
Three people and 40 animals have been shot dead on the Brittany coast in recent years. The reason is the proliferation of green algae, which is over-fertilized by nitrate used in intensive agriculture and livestock, and grows and decomposes in a toxic and lethal way. This genuine journalistic research exposes the unspoken dangers to the environment and people that arise from the production systems of macro-farms. A case reminiscent of what happened in the Mar Menor (Murcia) and facing threats, losing samples and avoiding autopsies. The comic exceeds 120,000 copies sold in France.
Mortadelo and Filemon. ‘Climate change’
In Bermuda and Santa Claus on a surfboard, cars faster than the AVE pushed by violent hurricanes, and farmers plow the land with donkeys with built-in umbrellas. Always holding hands with his notorious sense of humor and the wild adventures of his most famous and crazy characters, Mortadelo and Filemón, maestro Francisco Ibáñez, whose death last July shocked the comics world, took a chance to focus on disaster. The effects of global warming are on this album, which was released a little over a year ago. TIA agents will enlist Professor Bacterio’s ‘help’ to investigate the climate anomalies some towns are suffering from.
‘Climate change’
The result of six years of journalistic research through interviews with experts and scientists is this documented graphic essay, narrated in first person by Philippe Squarzoni, and was awarded the Lyon Comics Festival’s Grand Prize. After numerous interviews with experts and the data in the table, the French cartoonist invites us to reflect on how we can face climate change and rethink a consumption-based and fossil fuel-dependent society.
Don’t disappear. twilight of the genre
On an imaginary island in the Arctic, two journalists, together with a group of scientists investigating the serious effects of climate change caused by human action, record a report: the gradual extinction of species (6 we head towards extinction, 5th Dinosaur life remembered), plastics disappearance. and the consequences of dumping industrial waste into the sea, deforestation… A call to collective consciousness and to consider what each of them can do to stop the disaster. oceanographer Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu and author of ‘The Guantanamo Kid’.
‘Countdown’
Twenty years after one of Europe’s greatest marine ecological disasters, the ‘Prestige’ disaster that smudged the Galician coast with a black oil wave in 2002, this story explains many truths through fictitious characters. From the mismanagement of the PP government of the time, the aid to those who only thought about electoral gains and were affected by the pressure of the politicians on the media, to the survival problems of sailors and sailors or volunteers who came from all over the country to clean up the tar. . With a foreword by the novelist Manuel Rivas and an afterword by the cartoonist Miguelanxo Prado.