Reconstructing Comix

Saturday, October 8, 2016, 7 - 9pm

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Francophone comic artists Matz, Nicolas Otero, Anne Simon, Matthieu Bonhomme and publisher Philippe Ostermann discuss, "the 'architecture' of Franco-Belgian graphic narratives, from Tintin to today," in a free, public forum.

Over 70 years of creation and innovation, French and Belgian comics artists have pushed the boundaries of the frame, the panel and the page, drawing influence from film and international comic styles to produce unique visuals in the graphic narrative form. In this panel, leading comic artists from France discuss with Dargaud's publisher the ways in which disruptive formal and thematic conventions have influenced their work and pushed the genre forward into its groundbreaking present form.

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Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

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