FAPS – Fórum de Atualização em Pesquisas Semióticas
Friday, sept 29, 2023, 2:00 pm (Brazil) via Google Meet
International FAPS
Unflattening : Comics-Making as Way of Thinking
by Nick Sousanis (San Francisco State University)
Nick Sousanis will present on his approach to making comics as scholarship, drawing from Unflattening, originally his doctoral dissertation written and drawn entirely as comics and other works. A look at the affordances of the comics form via analysis of exemplars from across the comics field will set up a discussion of his process, and how deep consideration for form while exploring content pushes the work beyond illustration and generates new means for expression and understanding. This will also encompass the way formal constraints guide his creative process and serve as critical tools in his teaching practice to help students expand their own thinking through comics-making.
Nick Sousanis is an Eisner-winning comics author and an associate professor in Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, where he runs an interdisciplinary Comics Studies program. He is the author of Unflattening, originally his doctoral dissertation, which he wrote and drew entirely in comics form. Published by Harvard University Press in 2015, Unflattening received the 2016 American Publishers Association Humanities award for Scholarly Excellence and the 2016 Lynd Ward prize for Best Graphic Novel. Sousanis’s comics have appeared in Nature, The Boston Globe, and Columbia Magazine.
More at https://www.spinweaveandcut.com/ and on Twitter @nsousanis.
Friday, sept 29, 2023, 2:00 pm (Brazil) via Google Meet
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The meeting is open to anyone interested. The lecture will be given in English.