EVERYDAY COMIC-ART NETWORK
A network for artists, academics, scholars and others interested in comic-art, graphic novels and visual storytelling* in relationship to the everyday**.
The network gathers people interested in creating, reading, analyzing and developing the art form comics as a way of understanding and creating the everyday as an active part of social change.
The comic-art created, read and analyzed can be historical, documentary and contemporary telling stories of what has been, the now, or directed into the future aiming for change from stories about the everyday in future scenarios.
The network focuses on creating, reading and analyzing comics as ways of understanding and creating the everyday and the power for social change through comic-art.
The network works from the belief that comic-art has the power to be an active part of social change. Here the creating perspective of comics is of importance.
Comic-art focusing on everyday as part of creating social change is the core of the network.
EVERYDAY COMIC-ART NETWORK is a place for artists, academics, scholars and others to meet, exchange experiences and develop the field of comic-art focusing on social change.
All participants are free to join and take part as artists, academics, scholars and more. Definitions are to be seen and used as fluid identities that can change and transform depending on the specific situation, interest and more.
Focus: Understanding and being part of social change through creating, reading and analyzing comics set in everyday life.
Key words: comic-art, graphic novel, visual storytelling, everyday life, social change, justice, diversity, inclusion.
See also the EVERYDAY COMIC-ART BLOG
More information contact:
Fredric.Gunve@hdk.gu.se
* In the text the word comic-art includes graphic novels and visual storytelling if not specifically stated not to.
** In the word everyday we also include everyday life. But we see everyday as a way to open for and include more visual stories that might go beyond the everyday life.
Page from the chapter "The days after" from the ongoing graphic novel about my neighborhood.
Fine liner, brush pen, soft pastells and digital.