Family Marathon
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Credits
- Mfumu'eto Author
- Jaspe Sahir Artist
Format
- Comic Book 82
Techniques
- printing 767
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The works of Papa Mfundu'eto were popularized for their comic book style art and stories, often touching upon a plethora of subjects such as politics, humor, etc.
This comic, a Family Marathon, dives into familial relationship dynamics in a post-colonial Democratic Republic of Congo. We can look to 1950s nuclear family advertisement designs to analyze the idealization and depiction of the perfect family in another time and place.
While Papa Mfundu'eto's work used visual symbolism to critique and address pre-existing and new power structures, nuclear family adverts reinforced stereotypes and excluded non-white narratives.
Both would argue for different definitions of family prosperity, and reveal how visual media across different cultural contexts either reinforced or challenged dominant family narratives during periods of significant social transformation.
