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Rencontre – Thierry Van Hasselt

Rencontre avec le bédéiste Thierry Van Hasselt

Le 26 février 2024, 13h, Louvain-la-Neuve (Maison des Langues)

Thierry Van Hasselt est auteur de bande dessinée, plasticien, scénographe, installateur, graphiste et professeur à Saint-Luc. Il est aussi l’un des membres fondateurs du Frémok, plateforme d’édition indépendante bruxello-bordelaise menée par un collectif et issue de la rencontre d’artistes passionnés. Depuis vingt-cinq ans, les livres publiés par le Frémok proposent une bande dessinée qui sort du cadre, repousse sans cesse ses frontières avec l’art plastique et la narration littéraire.

La rencontre, animée par Véronique Bragard (UCLouvain, membre ACME), portera principalement autour de sa dernière bande dessinée, La véritable histoire de Saint-Nicolas.

© Image : Thierry Van Hasselt, La véritable histoire de Saint-Nicolas (2023, Frémok)

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LECTURE – MAËLYS-TIREHOTE CORBIN

Vivre de la bande dessinée, un Eldorado perdu ?

Présentation des recherches de thèse de Maëlys Tirehote-Corbin au METICES à l’ULB le mardi 20/2/24 de 10h à 12h, salle 13102.

Image : dessin de presse de Soulcié, paru dans Télérama, janvier 2018.

Résumé

Rares sont les artistes qui vivent entièrement de revenus tirés de leur art (Menger, 2002). À l’instar des musicien·nes (Perrenoud et Bataille, 2019) et des écrivain·es (Lahire, 2006), les auteurices de bande dessinée doivent souvent multiplier leurs sources de revenus (Aquatias et François, 2021 ; États Généraux de la Bande Dessinée, 2016). Continue la lecture

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COMICS/ACME LECTURE : COMICS PRODUCTIONS

Comics Productions: Stitching, Inking, Photocopying

13 March 2024, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, Library Lab Magnel, Ghent University, Faculty Library of Arts and Philosophy

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The Stitch, the Scratch, the Stain, and the Burn – the mechanically reproduced comics page as a site of embodied encounter with material indexes.

Gareth Brookes

Reproduction technology has always framed the ways in which we encounter and experience comics. Bart Beaty has described European small press as an ongoing attempt to reinscribe the aura of the work of art into the mechanically reproduced object. As such, small press practice can be theorised as a set of continuously adapting inscription strategies responding to new technologies.

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Dossier thématique (Comicalités) : Dessins d’enfance dans la bande dessinée (2023)

Edited by Maaheen Ahmed and Benoît Crucifix

This special issue considers the various ways that children’s drawings have been imagined, solicited and organized in comics history. The diversity and multiplicity of interactions between comics (as a cultural object produced for children) and children’s drawings (both as objects of adult discourses and as children’s productions) offer a vast field of inquiry, from conceptions of graphic style in comics to children’s recycling of comics in their own drawings.

This special issue is an outcome of the COMICS project, funded by the European Research Council’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.

More on this link.

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PhD position: Illustrated Periodicals for Children in Belgium, 1919-1949

In the context of the FWO research project “Pictures for the Kids: Visual Seriality in Illustrated Periodicals for Children in Belgium, 1919-1949”, we are looking for a PhD researcher candidate to work on the intermedial transformation of Belgian children’s periodicals in the early twentieth-century.

Project

The period stretching from the end of the Great War to the immediate postwar era witnessed a proliferation of mass-market illustrated periodicals and a diversification of its audiences. This project considers the mutations of the children’s magazine in Belgium before the postwar boom of the comics magazine and seeks to highlight the intermedial diversity of these periodicals. Those titles typically included editorial sections, comics, games, puzzles, serial fiction, illustrations, cut-outs, readers’ letters, photographs, advertising and covered a wide range of text-and-image combinations. Continue la lecture

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ACME/COMICS LECTURE – IVAN LIMA GOMES

Politics and criticism in the Latin American comics world during the 1960s and 1970s

4 January 2024, 2:00-3:30 PM, Camelot Room, Third Floor, Blandijn, UGent

Abstract
Within Latin America, the 1960s and the 1970s constitute a pivotal period for the comics art world. It was a moment when comics artists and intellectuals sought to assert what meant to produce comics in the region, establishing a clear contrast between the Latin American historietas/quadrinhos and the American comics. Echoing critiques against the “dependency” condition and the U.S. “cultural imperialism”, several Latin American editorial projects aimed at introducing new characters and themes to the comics scene. Continue la lecture

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PARUTION – LA MUSIQUE SILENCIEUSE DE MUÑOZ ET SAMPAYO

Erwin Dejasse, La Musique silencieuse de José Muñoz et Carlos Sampayo, Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, collection « Iconotextes », 2023, 252 p., 29€

Tous deux Argentins exilés en Europe dans les années 1970, José Muñoz et Carlos Sampayo ont construit ensemble au fil des années une œuvre dont la singularité narrative et graphique marque la bande dessinée de la fin du XXe siècle et du début du XXIe. Souvent décrit comme une rupture radicale avec les usages habituels, leur travail s’enracine pourtant dans une tradition ressentie comme définitivement classique, une bande dessinée fondée sur l’illusion de la réalité qui décline les différents genres de la fiction d’aventure.

Ce livre entreprend d’étudier ce paradoxe, en replaçant l’œuvre des deux auteurs dans la tradition qui lui donne naissance, des adventures strips étasuniens à leur réappropriation dans l’industrie de la bande dessinée argentine d’après-guerre. Quels mécanismes de déconstruction des normes esthétiques, narratives et thématiques utilisent le dessinateur et le scénariste ? Comment leurs bandes dessinées entrent en résonance avec le contexte historique ? Comment d’autres formes d’expression – musique, littérature, cinéma, poésie – ont influencé ces deux auteurs et leurs créations ?

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ACME SPEAKER SERIES – ANTONIO MIRIZZI

How specific is the cognitive experience of the comics reader? Formulating hypothesis through empirical experiments

6 December 2023 - 10am-12pm | ULB, Brussels, Solbosch Campus, Room P4.1.17.

Illustration © Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, 1986, DC Comics.

Abstract
The complex morphology of the comics medium calls for peculiar reading strategies aimed at bridging the gaps between its components, both structural and material. Although we speak broadly of visual literacy, in the case of comics it is necessary to consider specific skills of information synthesis and translinear reading. My research focuses on the distance between the implied reader and the actual reader, that is, it aims to understand how the latter behaves with respect to the cognitive effort virtually solicited by the comics form.

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ACME SPEAKER SERIES – ILAN MANOUACH

Comics as Computation

15 November 2023 — 10:45   |   ULiège, Faculté de philosophie, arts & lettres (Quai Roosevelt 1B – access from Place du XX août), building A4 (histoire), Room A4/R30 (ground floor).

A talk by Ilan Manouach, who will be presenting his postdoctoral research project (ULiège).

Abstract

Nowadays, anyone can generate stunning algorithmic illustrations with a few inspired keywords. In the fast-evolving world of computational creativity, the potential impact of AI technologies on comics, a medium that has historically served as a laboratory for today’s global entertainment industries, is a case in point. With the term « synthetic comics, » I propose to describe comics content that was generated, modified or manipulated in a highly automated manner by way of machine learning. Continue la lecture

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Reading session – Barbara Postema

A COMICS reading session open to all ACME members.

7 November 2023 – 1:30-3:45 pm
Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent – Room Camelot (3rd floor)

Dr. Barbara Postema, lecturer in English for Academic Purposes at Groningen University, will lead a group discussion on the following texts:

Shiamin Kwa, Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic (Chapter 1), Rutgers UP, 2023.
Barbara Postema, « Establishing Relations: Photography In Wordless Comic », Image & Narrative, vol. 16, no. 2, 2015, p. 84-95.

Contact: comics@ugent.be

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