#ilan manouach

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Fiera de mí by Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés from the album Clamor - Directed by Joan Galo [Behind the scene pics here]

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Counter Comics: like Counter Cinema, comics that strive to unravel the ideology behind comics. 

Ilan Manouach ( one / two )

Stefanie Leinhos

Christmas in Prison by Conor Stechschulte

Barques by Vincent Fortemps

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Les Schtroumpfs noirs, Ilan Manouach, 2014

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Ilan Manouach’s Conceptual Comics

I have a new essay in The Comics Journal 304 about Ilan Manouach’s conceptual comics: Katz (2011) and MetaKatz (2011) from Maus and MetaMaus by Art Spiegelman, 

Noirs (2014) from Les Schtroumpfs Noirs by Peyo, Tintin Akei Kongo (2015) from Tintin au Congo by Herge, 

Un monde un peu meilleur (2018) from Un monde un peu meilleur by Lewis Trondheim. 

Manouach’s appropriation works disclose the ideologies behind mainstream and “alternative” comics, even seemingly apolitical features like technology (color or formatting) or style of comics. 

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Ilan Manouach’s Shapereader: The Visual Question

My new essay "Ilan Manouach’s Shapereader: The Visual Question" is out on DAMN°, a Belgian quarterly art & design magazine, issue 71:

Shapereader is a tactile comic for the visually impaired. It exposes the inherent limitation of visual media/art: it excludes blind people. Shapereader also asks: what is the ‘visual’ in visual media/art if we can perceive it without seeing it? Shapereader challenges the privilege of the eye by showing that there is no pure visual perception and media/art. 

Shapereader is Manouach’s call and action for more diverse and inclusive aesthetic experiences, and the imagination and realization of such a possibility.

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Les Schtroumpfs noirs, Ilan Manouach, 2014

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Les Schtroumpfs noirs, Ilan Manouach, 2014

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Les Schtroumpfs noirs, Ilan Manouach, 2014