I teach comics, visual culture, theory, and literature. I love doing practical workshops and I enjoy 1:1 mentoring sessions. I work as a freelance cultural journalist in English and Hungarian. I organize events and exhibitions.
I am lecturing at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, and I also work as a module leader and mentor at Milestone Institute, Budapest.
I love doing stuff and I love being enthusiastic about what I do. I also love dinosaurs.
Read about my monograph, Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability (December 2020, Ohio State University Press) — it is open access! There are some further book projects here, too.
“I can humbly say that Eszter Szép is one of the best mentors I have ever met. As a mentor, she always has energy to spare, she is one hundred and one percent focused on our work and will review the comics, the script, and correct everything that can be done, down to the last detail. Eszter will take the time to brainstorm with you, to go through up to five times just to find a solution that suits everyone. I am convinced that the comic that I made for the residency is my best comic precisely because of such an excellent mentor and I am very happy that I had the opportunity to meet her. She is always smiling, full of ideas, encourages a person to create and shows him a hundred other examples. She supports her students with all her heart and I want to see such a positive and wonderful person in any case at similar events. The right person for this residency as a mentor is Eszter. Best choice ever.”
Feedback by a participant of the Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM) international residency, September 2023.
“She was fast in finding solutions for my narrative problems, she helped me with practical thinking.”
Feedback by a participant of the Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM) international residency, September 2023.
“Always thinking one step ahead of me and, in a way, surprising me with certain questions or assignments which are a bit challenging and test my knowledge in the fields that I am interested in.”
Feedback by teenage student at Milestone Institute.
Hire Me
I am available for comics workshops, lecturing, teaching courses, reviewing, editing, and managing in both academic and non-academic contexts.
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