Socionatural disaster and neoliberalism in the Zobako Comics. Edición Terremoto (2010) by Yayo

This article discusses the ways in which the comic produced by Yayo, Zobako. Edición Terremoto (2010), published a few weeks after the 8.8-magnitude quake that struck central Chile on Saturday 27 February 2010 (27F), proposes a radical visual commentary on the neoliberal ‘forces’ that contributed to this socionatural catastrophe in Chile. Thanks to its series of horizontal movements, multiple scales, use of the splash-page and visual abstraction, Zobako documents the social unrest of survivors, the repressive work of the police, the building of the neoliberal city and the hysterical media coverage of looting in the most devastated cities that resulted from the event. This article aims to unearth from the rubble of this disaster some the structural conditions that have brutally impacted the most vulnerable sectors of Chilean society since long before and after the 27F earthquake.