Der große Reset

"First corona, then the war, now inflation. Everything has turned out as I said it would ..." A terrible situation, but often a reality: a family member drifts away. In her first graphic novel, Ika Sperling relentlessly yet sensitively tells the story of how a father immerses himself in conspiracy theories and distances himself from his family. You don't even recognise him anymore - even in the drawing he becomes an amoeba-like ghost. With delicate strokes and impressionistically dabbed graphics, "Der große Reset" deals with the influence of fake news, social media and opinion bubbles on the internet, with social division and the disintegration of families. You never get the feeling that someone is being denounced, on the contrary: when the father refuses to put on his mask in front of his daughter in the waiting room of the doctor's office, you suffer for her and feel ashamed of him. The first part of Ika Sperling's comic was created as a bachelor's thesis with Anke Feuchtenberger and became a book thanks to funding from the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung. "Der große Reset" is a thoroughly humorous comic about a very relevant problem.