This paper examines Antonio Altarriba’s presentation of his deceased mother’s life-story in the graphic novel El ala rota (2016) claiming that author’s personal trauma mourning reveals c...

As we live and die through the continuing pandemic, one particular affect that relates us globally is of dead awaiting their funerary repose. Assessing Arif (2020) in an early reflection proposes might benefit our assessment ‘bio-social’ pandemic by admitting to sovereignty virus. Borrowing this premise, I suggest further virus acutely manifested commingled presence living unreposed temporary, ...