Also, good to see very specific comics theory applied to other art forms, here the photo book. Highlighting the semiotics of montage as a key method over superficial mass medial traits is just ripe for the plucking, as is Groensteen's long and hard work in comics theory.

It's a great addition to the art historian's toolbox re: serial/sequential/modular works, and I'm really excited to see it getting drawn out of the insular niche by Hardy-Valée! https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-93507-8_16

Since I did my MA in visual culture studies, I'm partial to a bit of Belting and Mitchell (even my Warburg bug was passed down from a course supervisor) — and having written my thesis on abstract and experimental comics, I know very well what the field offers to comics studies as well.

Looking forward to Jeanette Roan's chapter on the subject. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-93507-8_13

Just a weekend update to highlight some chapters out of "Seeing comics through art history" — stuff like Ahmed's look at Aby Warburg's "Atlas mnemosyne" as an approach to comics is thrilling to somebody like me. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-93507-8_4

Until now I've been making similar (and other) claims in my work and teaching, but to my knowledge I was the only one saying it. With this as reference, the fenceposts are blown flat to the ground to expand experimental comics even further 🥳

In his second instalment of the "Badger's eye view" column on uncomics.org, Mark Badger @badgetoon offers a consideration of Matisse's "Swimming pool" frieze as comics, and on practising meditation.

https://uncomics.org/fine%20arts/mark-02.html

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