The Comic at the Crossroads: The Semiotics of ‘Voodoo Storytelling’ in The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1

This article focuses on the use of religious semiology in the 2008 Black graphic novel The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1 by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. Both creators use hidden signs taken from Haitian Vodou and other Afro-American literature tropes in order to give their story multiple meanings...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lisa Kottas, Martin Schwarzenbacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-08-01
Series:The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
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Online Access:https://www.comicsgrid.com/article/id/3591/