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[dragonmark]

Hello everyone!

I just started working on my undergraduate thesis and my research question is going to be about how climate change is being viewed and depicted in graphic novels. More specifically, I want to find out whether graphic novels see climate change in a completely negative and pessimistic way (basically, there's nothing we can do about it, and humanity is doomed) or in a more optimistic one (climate change is bad, but we can still turn things around.)

After different searches, I came up with a list of the most recurring titles for a total of roughly 12 (all of them are graphic novels or "one-shot" type of comic books) that talk about climate change.

My questions for you are:
1. Do you confirm these are indeed the most famous/popular/relevant graphic novels there are out there about climate change?

2. Can you recommend other titles that I might have missed?

Ps: due to the limited scope of the thesis I'm ignoring serialized comic books with lots of issues and focusing on graphic novels and/or "one-shot" type of comic books only (including previously serialized titles later collected in one book. Not graphic novels per se, but still "one-shot").


Please find a list below (listed in chronological order):


(2007) Weird Weather: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change But Probably Should Find Out

(2009) Some New Kind of Slaughter

(2011) Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story

(2012) Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science

(2012) Forest is Life: A Story on Climate Change, Forests and Communities

(2013) IDP: 2043

(2015) Thunder and Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future

(2018) The Seeds

(2021) Dry

(2022) Shifting Earth1975

(2022) Eve

[gregjh]

Hi there, sorry nobody has been able to help. I don't think it's because you are being ignored but because this site specialises in older (world war 2 era) comics and climate change as the word is commonly understood nowadays,  is of course a relatively new topic. Good luck with your paper.

[The Australian Panther]

I replied to this some time ago but my reply seems to have disappeared. Also I think Paw Broon also posted a reply.
Is someone slowly hackng things inside CB+? Is this post in fact Spam? Not to sound too paranoid, but reading some of the other posts, some weird things seem to be happening.
Anyway, Dragonmark,
This site posts comics that are PD, that is, 'In the public Domain'. That means that most of the comics and books here are pre-1964.
That means they predate almost all concern about Climate Change. Also the works here pre-date Graphic Novels.
So this site is not going to be much use to you in your quest.
I also asked previously,
What Area/Faculty is your thesis in? And why Graphic Novels?
Why are graphic novels about climate change significant enough to validate a thesis?
I am fascinated.
So I will ask again.
Thank you.         

[Captain Audio]

From the late 1930's into the mid 60's global cooling was the major concern. Of course back then everyone thought Venus was a habitable water world cloaked in fog.