This is the abstract of the paper that I will present next week in Dún Laughaire at the International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference. … More Comics of the Lebanese Revolution – Abstract, IGNCC 2022 conference
I am looking forward to the 2021 conference of the Comics Studies Society. The topic this year is Re/Building Community. Here is my abstract. … More Drawing as Protest in The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Petr Sís – Abstract
Here is the abstract of the paper I’m going to present at the Ninth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, Retro! Time, Memory, Nostalgia, @Bournemouth University, UK, 27-29 June 2018 “Postmortemistical” Look: The Memory of Things and the Traces of Personhood in Roz Chast and Ben Katchor The paper investigates the ways personal relationships and memories are organized … More “Postmortemistical” Look: The Memory of Things and the Traces of Personhood in Roz Chast and Ben Katchor — Abstract
Comics Forum 2017 Comics and Space Leeds, 21-22 Sept 2017 The presentation examines the challenge the readers face when encountering textual elements in comics that are written in a language inaccessible to the reader: such textual parts create spaces of indecision in the surface of the page, and entice the reader to improvisatorially decipher … More Spaces of Indecision: Interpreting Foreign Language Texts in Contemporary Non-Fiction Comics – Abstract
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