Banana Trap
This comic zine project is inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1961 novella No One Writes To The Colonel.
The comic presents and reveals a deadly trap and a period of history of banana colonization in Columbia. García Márquez mentioned the ‘banana fever’ in many of his novels. It is a metaphor to imply the shocking historical tragedy behind the novel, which is a massacre of banana workers. I make this comic into a concertina-style for the readers to more easily follow the flow of the narrative.
This comic zine project is inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1961 novella No One Writes To The Colonel.
The comic presents and reveals a deadly trap and a period of history of banana colonization in Columbia. García Márquez mentioned the ‘banana fever’ in many of his novels. It is a metaphor to imply the shocking historical tragedy behind the novel, which is a massacre of banana workers. I make this comic into a concertina-style for the readers to more easily follow the flow of the narrative.
