La pandemia por coronavirus a través de viñetas de humor gráfico

Abstract

Humor; which has the function of relieving emotional tension; fear and insecurity; provides a critical reading of reality that has been reflected in the cartoons published in the newspaper El País during the pandemic; whose first 6 months are commented on through the work of the cartoonists El Roto, Peridis, Flavita Banana and Malagón. The stories told can be grouped into categories such as the general state of the world; the origin and spread of the pandemic; the communication and its manipulation; containment; fear; health resources and health systems; political crisis and the economy. The work of the cartoonists suggests that crises always benefit and harm them; as well as politics has its own dynamics far from the citizenry and its problems; and that environmental conditions; increasingly deteriorated; and lifestyles favor pandemics. Moreover; the forms of response to the problem are the same as always; accentuated by the dismantling of public health and misinformation.