PhD defense
I defended my PhD: Building a Glocalised Serial for Children on 29 September 2022, download the zine I made.
Study Day
I organised this study day with talks by:
Ian Gordon (respondent Hugo Frey) "Chiquinho: Brazilian Buster Brown or Bricolage"
Joe Sutliff Sanders (respondent María Porras Sánchez) "A Duck, a Possum, and Shakespeare Walk into a Bar: How MidCentury Comics Courted the Literary World"
Ivan Pintor Iranzo and Eva Van de Wiele (respondent Rhiannon McGlade) "The Katzenjammer Kids’ transcultural mutations in Spanish and Italian children’s comics magazine"
Giorgio Busi Rizzi (respondent Inge Lanslots) "Comics from the Blocks: Distant Reading Comics from Eastern and Western Europe, 1945-1989"
Hugo Frey (respondent Ian Gordon) "Indochina war comics: a forgotten history from the Van Passen Collection"
Benoît Glaude (respondent Ivan Pintor) "Captions and bubbles rewritten as a bridge over redrawn illustrations: Mickey Mouse and Secret Agent X-9 repurposed by Hachette in the early 1930s"
Summer Zine Workshop
Maaheen Ahmed and I offered an interactive workshop based on comics and children’s books at the summer academy in Freinetschool Het Tandwiel in Ghent.
The workshop started with a Kamishibai story, for which we selected Matthew Forsythe’s Pokko’s Drum.
Afterwards, we discussed the differences between picture books and comics, between solitary reading and chaperoned storytelling.
Then, with a lot of unbridled imagination, cut out material, markers, colours, scissors and glue, the children started to make their own stories in hybrid forms and formats.
Many thanks to Sofie Beunen (Diversity and Learning) for the materials and the workshops preparing us for this task. Happy to contribute again next year!
Workshops on Italian comics for high school pupils
In autumn 2021, I introduced fifth-year pupils of the Sint Lievenscollege in Ghent to Italian comics. The folder gives an overview of the three workshops, the primary bibliographical sources used and the reponsible persons.