Project
REDRAWING CHILDHOOD
“REDRAWING CHILDHOOD” aims at exploring the construction of childhood in comics and finding new ways of storytelling regarding that life period. It will challenge contemporary ideas of childhood and its representations. Discoveries in related fields will be used for improving the medium of comics. Artists such as Katin, Matthey, Spiegelman and Matsumoto will be the key to study the construction of childhood in graphic narratives. Experimental practices that are promoted by The ChiFouMi Association and their projects will be essential for finding new ways to work within the field. The outcome will be graphic novels about childhood in war-torn Serbia, as it is the social situation I experienced in my childhood. Next to the book, the outcome will be a series of experimental comics that I will use to search for appropriate ways to tell my story, reflecting on theoretical insights. These experiments will be reflected upon in accompanying essays.