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Abstract
My daughter has always been drawn to the frightening and the spooky, with a special interest in zombies. When she was four years old, she and I played a zombie video game together which instigated a series of zombie-related events. This article is a collection of metonymic moments rendered in comics and writing, that revisits these events as memories and experiences grouped conceptually, aesthetically, and narratively around zombies. Presented as a series of narrative fragments, this article explores the tension between parenthood and childhood, and considers the chaotic, unpredictable, and pedagogical entanglements between storytelling, literacy, drawing, and playing.
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Author biography
Jarod Roselló is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of South Florida. He is a Cuban-American teacher, cartoonist, and writer, who was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Pennsylvania State University. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of South Florida. Jarod’s comics, fiction, and arts-based educational research have appeared in numerous journals and magazines. His debut graphic novel, The Well-Dressed Bear Will (Never) Be Found, was published in 2015 by Publishing Genius Press. His ongoing serialized webcomic, Those Bears, can be read online at Hobart. He has an illustrated novel, How We Endure, forthcoming from Jellyfish Highway Press.
