FAILED AGAIN! I have no idea what the Futures of Comics will or could be like. And I’m not sure I want to. The exercise inevitably misses its target… But precisely: why…
Talks
Transparency & Opacity
Ilan Manouach comes from comics, Franck Leibovici comes from poetry: two different artistic backgrounds, with their own histories and signifying potentials. Comics is considered a vernacular form of cultural expression, while poetry…
Narrating intimacy through cartography
Through her fanzines, Merieme Mesfioui is looking for new formal strategies to tell stories, to denounce. Cartography takes more and more place in his way of understanding the narration. Indeed, this tool…
From comics to painting through poetry
At the crossroads of genres, comics is a three-story narrative bus; text – image – combination. Long reduced to an object of entertaining consumption, the medium becomes a playground and experimental laboratory…
AI, machines, works without an identified author: new editorial perspectives?
AI, machines, works without an identified author: new editorial perspectives? Nothing is less sure ! From the experience of JBE Books in researching the most contemporary books (in the sense of a…
Artist Talk
Bastien Vivès will discuss about his work and his latest publishing projects. The talk will be held in English through Skype. Let us know in advance if you would like translating assistance…
Censorship in Turkish Comics
The presentation will lay out the historical background of censorship towards Turkish comic magazines (Girgir, Mikrop, Limon, Leman, Pismis Kelle, Penguen and Uykusuz) from the early 70’s. I will start with the…
An Open Letter To Comics Festivals
Cartoonists Against Amazon will read “An Open Letter To Comics Festivals.” The group will additionally discuss the reasoning, context and strategy behind writing the letter, other ways in which cartoonists can work…
The Art of the News
The talk will be sourced from different interviews and discussions conducted with New York based professionals working in journalism and art direction and it will be structured as an examination of the…
Smuggling; many gestures, one single process?
As part of his thesis research entitled The Art of Smuggling? a cartography of the francophone alternative comics (1990-2015), Morvandiau found that many art workers of similar affinities have consistently multiplied their…