Punches for Everyone: Bullying in 20th Century Classic Comics.

The word bullying is an Anglicism whose meaning is, in general terms, that of harassment suffered by one person from another or others in a given relationship context, especially at school. It comes from the English verb to bully, that is, to use force or influence to intimidate someone, especially to force them to do something. We can talk about different types of bullying (physical, verbal, sexual, social, cyberbullying). Our goal is to identify types of bullying in a set of comic book characters published in Spain in the second half of the 20th century. We aim not only to carry out a descriptive analysis of these types of harassment, but also to show models of action to be avoided by young readers. After carrying out the analysis, we have seen that, although bullying is a relatively new concept, it refers to a set of aggressions (slaps, insults, humiliation of all kinds) that unfortunately have always occurred in schools, though nowadays they are seen as aggressions against which our society fights. Besides that, comic is a text type that has received full-blown slaps, since its reading and educational use in schools we can firmly state that has not been appropriate. Tales and narrations are preferred, to give just a few examples, over comics. That is why we demand their use in schools. In a society as visual as ours, full of images and audiovisual codes of all kinds, comics have a visual component that will undoubtedly help the narrative development of school readers.