Seminar: Gunnar Krantz: Made Drawings – the Narrative Characteristics of the Inked Black Line in Comics

In the project "Autographic Double Exposure – the Narrative Characteristics of the Inked Black Line in Comics", funded by The Swedish Reseach Council, I aim to explore two different printing techniques; autography and risography and relate them to contemporary comics. During the first part of the project, I am focusing on autography (e.g. transfer-lithography), in relation to the self-published works of Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846), often named "The Father of Comics", who not only created and published what today is considered the first comics in a modern sense, but also reflected and published two essays on his findings. In this seminar I will give a summary of the project, focusing on lithographic print of hand-made drawings and present some of my results. All interested in visual narratives, comics, storytelling and artistic practice are welcome!

Gunnar Krantz is professor within the Arts, School of Arts and Communication, Faculty of Culture and Society at Malmö University.

This seminar is organised by the Aesthetics Studies Research Node. The language will be English. 

If you wish to receive Gunnar's draft text before the seminar, please contact frits.gavertsson@kultur.lu.se.