Semiotics of irony in the work of JIS: A four-axis model for the study of graphic microfiction in the series “Another Day”.

Abstract

This article analyzes the panel in JIS´s work as an autonomus unif of graphic microfiction based on the semiotic hibridization of image and text. From the framework of microfiction theory, it proposes that its brevity stems from an extreme ellipsis where silence operates as the narrative core. A four-axis model-spatial organization, temporality, rhetoric of silence, and de reception- is developed to explain its dunction as a narrative fractal. Trough the analsis of three panels, it is demonstrated that parataxis, anaphoric opening, cataphoric closing, and graphic meaning toward the reader till irony. In this process, the reader activates their cultural encyclopedia to fill in the gaps, producing a refiguration that links the diegesis to their experience and transforms the panel into a critical device of contemporary life.