Abstract
Drawing involves movements and gestures of the body, which create marks on the canvas. These marks constitute the basic units of meaning and expression in comics, which, in arrays, form iconic representations. Despite their mass-printed distribution, comics and other graphic narratives maintain their handmade quality and retain the original marks left by the artist’s hand. This unique feature gives the reader access to the intention, experience, and emotion that accompany the embodied act of drawing, making comics a dialogical medium. Focusing on these features, the study explores the narrative and expressive capacity of the artist’s hand in fictional genres of graphic narratives, perceiving the bodily experience of the artist (the graphiateur) as the interpretative category, and the iconic representation it creates as the subject. The purpose of this research is to address a gap in comic studies, which have been writer-centric to a large degree, particularly when it comes to the most popular genres. It also emphasizes the significance of the human body in the creation of narrative images, especially in the wake of generative AI and its application in visual media.
Presenters
Kamil DukiewiczStudent, Doctoral, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Kujawsko-pomorskie, Poland
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Comics, Narrative Image, Body
