EVERYDAY COMIC-ART NETWORK

The network brings together artists, researchers, scholars, and others interested in comic-art, graphic novels, and visual storytelling that explore 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 set in different situations and more. At the same time, it remains open to all forms and perspectives of comic art and research, shaped by the interests of its participants.

Keywords

Comic-art, graphic novel, graphic noveling, visual storytelling, everyday life, social change, justice, diversity, inclusion.
 

*Comic-art includes graphic novels and visual storytelling unless otherwise specified