Post-Comics: beyond comics, illustration and the graphic novel.
A publication + a series of exhibits, workshops and activities + an online mapping.
Can an art form become what it is not? Can the comic strip or the graphic novel, for example, develop into 'something else' in this fluid postmedial age? This question led to a research on the concept of post-comics, resulting in a publication, a cluster of small exhibitions on the campus of KASK Ghent School of Arts and an online mapping of post-comics practices.
With textual and graphic contributions by Maheen Ahmed, Felipe Muhr, Benoît Crucifix, Ilan Manouach, Charlotte Pylyser, Olivier Deprez, Aarnoud Rommens, Tom Lambeens, Maria Clara Carneiro, Jochen Gerner, Jean-Charles Andrieu de Lévis, Benjamin Monti, Jan Op de Beeck and Sébastien Conard. Foreword by Jan Baetens and introduction by Sébastien Conard. Graphic design by Thomas Desmet and Emma Vanhille. Exhibition scenography by Linh Dong and Liene Aerts.
More info on the project here. For the publication, go here.
128 pp., 17 x 24 cm, offset print.
photo by Leontien Allemeersch © 2020