Since the underground comic movement of the seventies, autobiographical comics became an important part of the medium. Artists like Aline Kominsky, Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman became role models for a lot of comic artists of the following generation. The workshop will follow this track and should encourage the students to use their personal biography as a source for telling visual stories. Comics are a cheap, democratic and independent medium that can help almost anybody to express what she/he wants. Advanced drawing skills are not necessary for joining this workshop.
Prof. Hendrik Dorgathen
Kunsthochschule Kassel School of Art and Design, Kassel, Germany
Prof. Tamir Shefer
Visual Communication Design Department HIT, Israel
