Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of some fundamental literary characteristics of Watchmen, the graphic novel by Alan Moore, and considers the possible role of these characteristics as a model for the contemporary novelists, particularly in Spanish literature, which to date has not absorbed the influence. The starting point of the study is that Watchmen contains a series of narrative values which are comparable to some of the models of the modern novel and therefore can occupy a similar position in the whole of the literary possibilities of today.

Keywords: Alan Moore; Watchmen; Graphic novel; Spanish Literature; Modernism.