Benoît Peeters
Comic genius
An introduction to comics through a few key moments and a focus on the themes that make this medium so unique.
Oscillating between the press and the book, childhood and adulthood, caricature and realism, playing with boxes and strips, cutting and layout, phylacteries and onomatopoeia, the comic strip is a language in its own right that neither cinema, video games nor the Internet have yet threatened. And while the ninth art has already spawned many masterpieces, from Krazy Kat to The Adventures of Tintin, from Peanuts to Persepolis, from manga to graphic novels, today it's more diverse and vibrant than ever. In this lecture presented on October 7 2020 as part of the cycle La bande dessinée au Collège de France, Benoît Peeters sheds light on the specificities of this sometimes underestimated medium.
Lecture given with the support of the Centre national du livre, as part of the Year of the Comic Strip at the Collège de France.
Peeters B., Génie de la bande dessinée, Paris, Collège de France, coll. " Conférences ", 2022, 64 p.
ISBN : 978-2-7226-0599-2
Price : 14 €
Publication : November 17 2022
