The creative challenge presented by comics does not begin or end at the drawing table. How does new work find a readership? What makes for a sustainable art practice? How do financial…
Futures of Comics 2019
How to Completely Vanish from Earth?
An experimental workshop on comics distribution. The workshop arises from the need to think radically the distribution of any cultural material and in particular of comics from a negative perspective. Through different…
Introduction to Indian Comics
Comics in India are being treated as cheap objects. People feel they have no inherent value, and are often discarded. Through a documentation of different raddiwalas (paper recyclers) who sort through the…
Gendered Representations in Comics
The workshop on gender and comics is basically to take people through different images, that Aarthi has collected for here research project and at each image, stop to have a discussion, as…
Collage & Comics: From Source to the Subject
Comics’ entry to the fine art world was the source of the appropriation art (Lichtenstein). But now many comic artists deploy the method of appropriation includes collage. There are exciting similarities of…
Deskilled Comics
Deskilled Comics are intentionally poorly drawn comics. Why do some of us like deskilled comics? How do we distinguish the deskilled and just unskilled? Or do we need to distinguish them at…
Feminist Critiques of Comics Histor(iograph)y
Sadly, comics have a longstanding tradition of sexism. Primarily focusing on North American / Canadian comics, we will discuss how sexism has affected the writing of the history of comics (erasing women)…
On Trans/National Comics: the Canadian Case
National Comics is one of the main frames of analysis in comics… or is it too old-fashioned now that the ‘transnational’ is trending? We will discuss the upsides and limitations of the…