On March 16th, from 1pm to 2pm, another edition of the FEUP Reading Club will take place. The session will be conducted by Mário Moura, Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. João Aires de Sousa, who works for the FEUP Library will be in charge of the moderation. This edition of the Reading Club will take place on Level 0 of the FEUP Library.
In the session "The comic strip - from newspaper to social networks", Mário Moura will focus on Comics, an artistic expression that combines text and image to tell stories, true or fictional.
The first comic strip appeared in newspapers in the 18th century. It was mainly in the 19th and 20th centuries that this field of plastic and literary creation gained strength, developing most vigorously in the USA and then spreading to Europe. It is usually published in magazines, books or in strips published in newspapers. Nowadays it is also published digitally on websites under the name of webcomics. In the session "The comic strip - from newspaper to social media" the history of the comic strip and its particularities will be explored.
Mário Moura is a Porto-based design, art and culture critic, lecturer, and researcher. He writes regularly for newspapers, magazines and on the blog 'The Ressabiator'. He is the author of the books 'Design em Tempos de Crise' (Braço de Ferro, 2009), 'O Design Que o Design Não Vê' (Orfeu Negro, 2017), 'A Força da Forma' (Orfeu Negro, 2019), 'Páginas Inquietas. On Insubmissos’ (Dois Dias, 2019), as well as a PhD thesis on authorship in design. He was editor of the magazines Monumentânea (Grandes Armazéns do Design) and Impossuível. He teaches History and Design Critique at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and is also integrated in the Institute for Research in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS). He was the curator of the exhibition “O Resto da Revista – o que (quase) fica de fora das histórias da banda desenhada” at the 25th International Comic Strip Festival of Amadora (2014); "Páginas Inquietas" at Espaço Mira (2016) and at the Biennial of Maia (2021), as well as ‘Força da Forma', an exhibition that integrated the 2019 edition of Porto Design Biennale.
We invite the whole community to get involved in the speech balloons and images from the World of Comics in this Reading Club session, but also through the books on display in the showcase on Floor 0 of Feup’s library.
(https://biblioteca.fe.up.pt/events/2023/vamos_a_livros_banda_desenhada/)
For more information, contact agora@fe.up.pt.
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