1st Edition
Ilan Manouach in Review Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics
This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly.
An international team of authors engages with the topic from diverse theoretical approaches, from traditional narratology and aesthetic close readings of some of Manouach's books, engaging with comics' own distinctive history, modes of production, circulation and reception, to perspectives from disability studies, post-colonial studies, technological criticism, media ecology, ontography, posthumanist philosophy, and issues of materiality and media specificity.
This innovative and timely volume will interest students and scholars of comic studies, media studies, media ecology, literature, cultural studies, and visual studies.
Foreword
Introduction: A Critical Situatedness of Comics
Pedro Moura
Part 1: Textuality and Surfaces
1. Katz, Noirs & Tintin akei Kongo: Ilan Manouach’s Critical Manifesto
Xavier Guilbert
2. Ilan Manouach’s Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge: Ontography and the Past and Future of Stories
Simon Grennan
3. Whitewashing the Smudge. The Politics of Erasure and Unreadability in Ilan
Manouach’s Cascao
Ana Matilde Sousa
4. The Void that Challenged Narrative: A Poetics of Emptiness in Riki Fermier
Greice Schneider
5. Replacing and Reorganizing: A Discursive Arc about Cultural Production
Lorenz Ohrmer
Part 2: Reading Practices
6. Reading Childly: Riki Fermier and Cascao
Maaheen Ahmed
7. Disability, Comics and the Shapereader
José Alaniz
8. Shapereader and the Limits of Touch
Ian Hague
9. Blanco: On Blank and Illegible Books
Moritz Küng
Part 3: Rethinking the Pasts and the Futures of Comics
10. Manouach Contrabandier: Countering Practices to Industrial Publishing.
Morvandiau
11. Haunted by Tradition: Ilan Manouach and the Ghosts of BD Past
Barbara Postema
12. [CoCo]: Conceptual Comics and Online Archives
Benoît Crucifix
13. Can Comics Think? Automation on The Cubicle Island
Daniel Worden
14. Ilan Manouach: The Comic Book Hacker
Maria Clara da S. R. Carneiro and Lielson Zeni
Afterword: Like a Robot Bereft of Its Function
Xavier Löwenthal
Biography
Pedro Moura is an independent scholar, teacher, and comics scriptwriter from Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD from the University of Lisbon and KU Leuven.
