Tarwar

35,00€

Ilan Manouach’s Tarwar expands upon the author’s earlier work, Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge, but broadens its scope to explore global comics. By leveraging computer vision technologies to study thousands of comics from diverse cultures, Tarwar zeroes in on one recurring visual element: the black panel. These iconic elements, discovered in comics across genres and regions and cultural context all over the world, prompt reflection and signify narrative pauses, often evoking themes of introspection and suspense. Embracing the universality of this motif, Tarwar, entirely composed by black panels, reveals how comics serve as a shared language that transcends geographic, cultural, and stylistic boundaries, creating a collective narrative experience in a globalized world.

Ilan Manouach is a researcher, a conceptual comics artist and a book publisher. He completed a PhD at Aalto University on comics epistemology (2022).
He is mostly known for Shapereader, a system for tactile storytelling initially designed for people with visual disabilities. He is the founder of Echo Chamber, a non-profit organization dedicated to comics research (part of the Creative Europe consortium of Expanded Publishing), and Futures of Comics, an international research programme for comics professionals. He is the founder of Topovoros Books, a Greek publishing house spearheading translations of cornerstone essays in humanities and the curator for the collections of Conceptual Comics for Ubuweb and Monoskop. His work is the subject of a dedicated Routledge critical anthology and his latest book, Out Side, is a collaboration with K Allado-McDowell.

• Format: 16,5 x 24 cm
• Pages: 120
• Language: FR, EN, ES, JP
• Year: 2025
• ISBN: 978-88-8056-299-3