by Nicoletta Mandolini, Alessia Mangiavillano, Giorgio Busi Rizzi and Eva Van de Wiele
From Monday 12 July to Thursday 15 July, the third edition of the AIPI (Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano) Summer School took place in Ghent. For the first time, the Summer School was dedicated to the study of comics. The edition was sponsored by AIPI; the Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels; the Dante Alighieri Society of Ghent; and the research groups COMICS and SnIF.
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Tags: A Contract with God, adaptation, Alberto Giolotti, Alexander Calder, authorship, autofiction, Belgium, City of Glass, collages, comics, David Mazzucchelli, discontinuity, Enki Bilal, film, Finnegans Wake, fumetti, Gene Roddenberry, Gianni Colombo, graphic journalism, Graphic Novels, Henry Jenkins, imagination, Italy, James Joyce, Kafka, Kobane Calling, La Guerre des tranchées, Le Château, Le Voyage, Lev Manovich, literature, Lovecraft, Marvel, mass media, merchandising, metafiction, Mickey Mouse, Mobile sur deux plans, Olivier Deprez, Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle, political engagement, radio, Reinhard Kleist, representation of realities, Robert Crumb, Roland Barthes, SnIF, social commentary, stagnation, Star Trek, Strutturazione fluida, subjectivity, Summer Schools, television, Tezuka Osamu, transmediality, transtextual narratives, Trilogie Nikopol, Umberto Eco, Will Eisner, Zerocalcare
by Jakob F. Dittmar
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This paper discusses comics for the blind, based on the example of the tactile comic life by Philipp Meyer and Astérix par Touchtatis ! by Olivier Poncer. It looks into the potential and the restrictions of sequential pictorial storytelling that is accessible to blind readers. Special attention is given to the elements of comics narratives and the technical background of tactile text and image representation. Due to the process of giving information in tactile comics, these present an extreme challenge for readers who have been born blind, while readers who have become blind later in life seem to be able to refer the elements of spatially dispersed tactile information representing the visual appearance of environments (images) to their memory of visual information.
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Tags: Asterix, bande dessinée, blind readers, braille, Franco-Belgian Comics, haptic, Olivier Poncer, Philipp Meyer, representation of realities, special needs, tactile comics, tactile images, visually impaired readers
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AIPI Summer School 2021 Ricerca a fumetti (Researching comics: genres, form(s), variations) 1/2
by Nicoletta Mandolini, Alessia Mangiavillano, Giorgio Busi Rizzi and Eva Van de Wiele
From Monday 12 July to Thursday 15 July, the third edition of the AIPI (Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano) Summer School took place in Ghent. For the first time, the Summer School was dedicated to the study of comics. The edition was sponsored by AIPI; the Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels; the Dante Alighieri Society of Ghent; and the research groups COMICS and SnIF.
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Posted by Annick Pellegrin on 2021/09/15 in Conference reports
Tags: A Contract with God, adaptation, Alberto Giolotti, Alexander Calder, authorship, autofiction, Belgium, City of Glass, collages, comics, David Mazzucchelli, discontinuity, Enki Bilal, film, Finnegans Wake, fumetti, Gene Roddenberry, Gianni Colombo, graphic journalism, Graphic Novels, Henry Jenkins, imagination, Italy, James Joyce, Kafka, Kobane Calling, La Guerre des tranchées, Le Château, Le Voyage, Lev Manovich, literature, Lovecraft, Marvel, mass media, merchandising, metafiction, Mickey Mouse, Mobile sur deux plans, Olivier Deprez, Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle, political engagement, radio, Reinhard Kleist, representation of realities, Robert Crumb, Roland Barthes, SnIF, social commentary, stagnation, Star Trek, Strutturazione fluida, subjectivity, Summer Schools, television, Tezuka Osamu, transmediality, transtextual narratives, Trilogie Nikopol, Umberto Eco, Will Eisner, Zerocalcare