Unveiling time. Martin Vitaliti and the sequential solitude

• Main Author: Héctor Tarancón Royo
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2019-03-01
• Series: ANIAV
• Subjects: Superhéroe; Apropiacionismo; Temporalidad; TimeTM; Capitalismo emocional; Secuencialidad; Viñeta
• Online Access: https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/aniav/article/view/10063

Since its beginning, mass culture had a huge acceptance by the public, but it was ignored by the academic studies. Seen as something superficial and alienating for the individual, artistic movements like pop or cultural facts like comic or TV shows haven’t been analyzed as formal elements until these last decades. The newest disciplines, such as visual studies, cultural studies, studies of genre or of linguistics, when increasing their object of research have observed the critical and ideological potential of these ways of expression. Thus, from an interdisciplinary approach, the present article focuses on the work of the Argentinian Martín Vitaliti about the superhero and his epic temporality, the conflict between his feelings and his compromiso, and the formal sequentiality inside the comic. Conceived as a fragmented story which mixes his appropiation strategies of omission, replay and distinction, images are available for different interpretations and references; this is acknowledged by Vitaliti who presents this issue in his works and who uses them as a way to solve different problems related with the image.