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…
Futures of Comics 2020
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…
Communication Invoices
Dense but affordable, self-published comic anthologies sparked an explosion of limited-edition releases from Melbourne, Australia’s innovative underground comic artists in the late1990’s – 2000’s. Generally produced in runs anywhere from 20 –1000…
A Xerox of a Xerox a Xerox
How do comics save themselves? What are the modes of knowledge production and cultural transmission that shape the past of comics? Which means organize the inscription of comics in a longer temporal…
Neologism creation / microedition
This workshop will happen at two different times. The first part is a collective reflection based on elements such as: the critical analysis of hegemonic feminism, the definition of post-colonial feminism, as…
Making and sharing comics libraries
In an age where public libraries are an endangered institution, collections run by amateur librarians emerge as new, vital topographies of sharing. Confronted with an unprecedented amount of texts and images, contemporary…
Comics are a Problem
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…
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…