Pedro Moura Visualising small traumas

contemporary Portuguese comics at the intersection of everyday trauma

Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal's borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned what constitutes...

Non-fictie

Engels | 237 pagina's (PDF, 2,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022

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David Pinho Barros The clear line in comics and cinema

a transmedial approach

The "clear line", a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field of comics studies for the style originally developed by Hergé and the École de Bruxelles. It refers to certain storytelling strategies that generate a deceptively simple, lucid and hygienic narration: in Philippe Marion's words, it is a style "made out of light, fluidity and limpid clarity". By cataloguing and critically analysing clear line comics from historical and theoretical...

Non-fictie

Engels | PDF, 18 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022

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Barbara Stok Vincent

The turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh continues to serve as a source of inspiration for many people. In this graphic novel, artist and writer Barbara Stok takes the reader on a journey to the brief and intense period of time that the painter spent in the south of France. Vincent dreams of setting up an artists' house in Arles for himself and his friends. However, his attacks of mental illness confuse and disorient him, culminating in the notorious incident with his ear and leaving his dreams shattered....

Fictie

Engels | 147 pagina's (ePub2, 38 MB) | Singel Uitgeverijen, Amsterdam | 2012

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