Qosqomic: El potencial del Comic Cusqueño Independiente como herramienta educativa y de resistencia cultural.

Cuzco (Peru); Peru

The present work is part of a broader research project, which analyzes a corpus of comic magazines, which were designed, produced and printed in the city of Cusco, in Peru, between 2012 and 2022, under the brand Qosqomic. The creators are a group of young independent artists who have struggled to become an attractive source of local comics, characterized by its originality and its cultural and linguistic resistance strategies. One of the group's strategies is to incorporate the local Indigenous language called Quechua or Runasimi, as a means to counteract the foreign avalanche of commercial comics that arrive to the city and fill the market with other cultural references, languages, and traditions. This article is about those twenty-one comic magazines produced over a period of ten years, which articulate historical, mythological, popular religion, and daily life elements in a variety of genres and styles, ranging from science fiction and adventure to steampunk and zombies, but always with a common purpose: to highlight and rescue the Andean culture in its very varied facets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]