Iconic solidarity with death: On Steffens Kvernelands A Voluntary Death
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Jager, Benedikt. 2024. “Iconic solidarity with death: On Steffens Kvernelands A Voluntary Death”. Nordlit 52 (2):133-42. https://doi.org/10.7557/13.7897. https://doi.org/10.7557/13.7897Abstract
In A voluntary death (2018), comics writer Steffen Kverneland thematizes the suicide of his father. This contribution examines the interaction between the verbal text and the visual design. It turns out that the compound expression creates complex and partly contradictory interpretation possibilities of the father's suicide. In this context, Thierry Groensteens concept of '"iconic solidarity" is of particular importance.