EVERYDAY COMIC-ART NETWORK
EVERYDAY COMIC-ART NETWORK is an art-based research network focusing on civic engagement and social change through creating, reading and analyzing comic-art*. The network is placed under HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Designs research cluster Materialities and experimental aesthetics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
EVERYDAY COMIC-ART NETWORK | University of Gothenburg
The network brings together artists, researchers, scholars, and others interested in comic-art, graphic novels, and visual storytelling that explore and develop themes of civic engagement and social change.
The network serves as a space for people to meet, exchange ideas and experiences, and engage in creating, reading, analyzing, and developing comic-art in relation to research. The network welcomes all genres and styles—documentary, autobiographical, fictional, humorous, dead serious, comic journalism and more.
A key focus of the network is to experiment with the creation, viewing, reading, and analysis of comic-art as means of understanding and actively participating in social change. Questions related to materials, aesthetics, experimental visual and communicative forms are integral to the network’s identity.
All participants are free to join and take part as artists, academics, scholars and more.
Definitions and roles are fluid identities that can shift depending on context, interest, and situation.
FOCUS:
The focus for the network is civic engagement and social change through creating, reading and analyzing comic-art. At the same time, it remains open to all forms and perspectives of comic art and research, the network is shaped by the interests and engagement of its participants.
KEY WORDS: comic-art, graphic novel, visual storytelling, everyday life, social change, justice, diversity, inclusion.
More information contact:
Fredric.Gunve@hdk.gu.se
* In the text the word comic-art includes graphic novels and visual storytelling unless otherwise specified.
Page from the chapter "The days after" from the ongoing graphic novel about my neighborhood.
Fine liner, brush pen, soft pastells and digital.