Therapeutic Journeys in contemporary Spanish Graphic Novels
Résumé
Study of three Spanish pathographies that use use the metaphor of the journey to deconstruct social representations and challenge preconceived ideas about autism, Alzheimer’s disease and cerebral palsy. This article shows how the authors of the three intermédial graphic novels use techniques specific to travel guides to explain these disorders, and interrogate the extent to which reading those pathographies can have a curative dimension, and making these works help the artists finding some form of healing or catharsis.