Projects

This project aims to investigate contemporary authorship in comics, examining how the concept is understood and focusing on the way comics are created, shared, and read in a digital environment. Comics are an ideal case study because they lie at the intersection of narrative and visual culture, displaying practices, symbolic apparatuses and production structures similar to, or shared by, other media. In particular, I argue that comics after ...

The project intends to examine a key corpus of digital comics from a formal perspective, analyzing the way they experiment with the features offered by the digital format. This involves reflecting on the forms that can be adopted in the digital environment once the page format is no longer a constraint. It also means investigating their specificities for what concerns multimodality (the inclusion of different modes, such as audio and ...

The term ‘manhua’ is broadly viewed as the Chinese equivalent of comics and cartoons, regardless of publication formats. Hong Kong manhua were popular and widely exported between 1950s and the early 1990s, but the industry encountered a drastic decline since the mid-1990s, partially due to the rise of the internet that threatened the print and traditional entertainment media as well as the sterile studio ...

This project proposes a critical rediscovery and timely, methodologically innovative analyses of Belgian illustrated periodicals for children before the postwar rise of the comics magazine. It considers the period between 1919 and 1949 as a key moment for the transformation of the children's magazine in Belgium, with illustrations and pictures offering new attractions to child audiences and serial mechanisms a perfect means to seduce readers. ...

To this day, comic imagery that revolves around ethnic differences may create intercultural
conflicts and polarize public debates. The research project wants to explore these cultural tensions
over humour and identity in a Flemish climate that is marked by ethno-cultural tensions, colourblind
ideology and a lack of visibility for diaspora audiences in public, mediated and academic
spheres (Adriaens, 2012). As such, the aim of ...

Immuno-T is a motion comic that explains three types of immunotherapy in an understandable way. This app is currently being used by UZGent to inform patients who are participating in immunotherapy clinical trials or who are considering this. The aim of this project is to validate a business concept, fine-tune a business plan and a marketing strategy.

To this day, comic imagery that revolves around ethnic differences may create intercultural
conflicts and polarize public debates. The research project wants to explore these cultural tensions
over humour and identity in a Flemish climate that is marked by ethno-cultural tensions, colourblind
ideology and a lack of visibility for diaspora audiences in public, mediated and academic
spheres (Adriaens, 2012). As such, the aim of ...