{"id":1289,"date":"2024-03-06T10:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T10:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2024-03-07T11:28:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T11:28:27","slug":"pg-spotlight-on-the-art-research-and-teaching-of-comics-and-graphic-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/2024\/03\/06\/pg-spotlight-on-the-art-research-and-teaching-of-comics-and-graphic-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgrad tips on the art, research and teaching of comics and graphic novels"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Julian Lawrence, Senior Lecturer Comics and Graphic Novels at Teesside University.<\/p>\n

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\"Hello, \"The \"While \"The \"In \"In<\/p>\n

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PANEL 1
\nHello, I\u2019m Julian and I\u2019ve been drawing comics and cartoons for as long as I can remember. As a child, comics helped me to learn French and teachers encouraged me to make comics to develop art and literacy skills.<\/p>\n

JULIAN: C\u2019est si bon !<\/p>\n

PANEL 2
\nThe connections between comics and learning always stuck with me and, after working as a comic book and storyboard artist for 20 years, I shifted my focus to teaching and research.<\/p>\n

PANEL 3
\nWhile working on my Master\u2019s in Art Education I became fascinated with semiotics: the study of signs and symbols. Umberto Eco says: \u201cSemiotics is a general theory of all existing languages… all forms of communication – visual, tactile, and so on….\u201d I investigate the signs in comics which help authors tell stories.<\/p>\n

PANEL 4
\nThe signs and symbols we gravitate to also help us to shape our identities, which is another area of research I pursue: the ways making comics helps to shape author identities.<\/p>\n

PANEL 5
\nIn classrooms, comics perform as a participatory culture; it is a medium that supports negotiations of identity within communities of practice. Studying semiotics and authorship steered me towards autobiographical comics and utilising graphic memoir as a research methodology.<\/p>\n

Julian: It\u2019s so interesting to see that the characters students create are actually representations of themselves!<\/p>\n

PANEL 6
\nIn conclusion, I have offered you a brief glimpse into the ways I apply graphic memoir as a methodology to study comics, identity, and community: by drawing an autobiographical comic to share these themes with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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