This reflection addresses the realities and politics of “slow media,” using comics to explore how ideals of “slowness” interface with class privilege, consumerism, forms of attention, and counter-culture.

Hugo Ricardo Noronha de Almeida and Anna Åberg discuss the realities and politics of “slow media,” using comics as a case study to explore how ideals of “slowness” interface with class privilege, consumerism, forms of attention, and counter-culture.