\n| Resumen<\/th>\n | In this time of pandemic, people engage with diverse narratives of infographics to make sense of their experiences. Scholars agreed that comics are graphic mediums and cultural artefacts that significantly contribute to the visual community of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the comic artists in Malaysia, Ernest Ng, initially published his comics online and later converted them into three volumes of comic books entitled CovidBall Z Volume 1 (2020a), 2 (2020b) and 3 (2021). The objective of this paper is to undertake a content analysis of the portrayals of the various state machinery figures both from the government and opposition sides (i.e., ministers, politicians and government officers) in their roles in combating COVID-19. Additionally, the analysis wishes to uncover contemporary attitudes Ng uses such as symbolism, exaggeration and irony, among others, to convey his views on the current issue in obvious and subtle ways. In analysing the data, this study employed data analysis techniques in the form of descriptive content analysis. It was found that the social commentaries presented in Ng\u2019s comics via the plot depict the existence of sexism, unfair treatment, and prejudice by several characters which lead to bully culture in the midst of the political metaphorical depiction of war and heroism among Malaysian state machinery figures. The images in his comics help people analyse, reflect on, and interpret our experiences by informing, providing meaning, and illustrating the COVID-19 outbreak narrative.<\/p>\n En esta \u00e9poca de pandemia, las personas interact\u00faan con diversas narrativas de infograf\u00edas para dar sentido a sus experiencias. Los acad\u00e9micos coincidieron en que los c\u00f3mics son medios gr\u00e1ficos y artefactos culturales que contribuyen significativamente a la comunicaci\u00f3n visual de la pandemia de COVID-19. Uno de los dibujantes de c\u00f3mics de Malasia, Ernest Ng, public\u00f3 inicialmente sus webc\u00f3mics y luego los convirti\u00f3 en tres vol\u00famenes de c\u00f3mics titulados CovidBall Z Volume 1 (2020a), 2 (2020b) y 3 (2021). El objetivo de este documento es realizar un an\u00e1lisis de contenido de las representaciones de las diversas figuras de la maquinaria estatal tanto del gobierno como de la oposici\u00f3n (es decir, ministros, pol\u00edticos y funcionarios del gobierno) en sus roles en la lucha contra el COVID-19. Adem\u00e1s, el an\u00e1lisis desea descubrir las actitudes contempor\u00e1neas que utiliza Ng, como el simbolismo, la exageraci\u00f3n y la iron\u00eda, entre otras, para transmitir sus puntos de vista sobre el tema actual de manera obvia y sutil. Al analizar los datos, este estudio emple\u00f3 t\u00e9cnicas de an\u00e1lisis de datos en forma de an\u00e1lisis de contenido descriptivo. Se encontr\u00f3 que los comentarios sociales presentados en los c\u00f3mics de Ng a trav\u00e9s de la trama representan la existencia de sexismo, trato injusto y prejuicio por parte de varios personajes que conducen a una cultura de intimidaci\u00f3n en medio de la representaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica metaf\u00f3rica de la guerra y el hero\u00edsmo entre las figuras de la maquinaria estatal de Malasia. Las im\u00e1genes de sus historietas ayudan a las personas a analizar, reflexionar e interpretar nuestras experiencias al informar, brindar significado e ilustrar la narrativa del brote de COVID-19.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
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