Post-Comics: Beyond Comics, Illustration and the Graphic Novel

by Sébastien Conard (Editor), Benoit Crucifix, Jan Baetens

‘Post-comics are much more than just another way of making or telling comics. What post-comics are doing is transferring the art of comics to different fields, different contexts, if not different artistic, cultural, technological and industrial worlds. These new environments may challenge post-comics the same way they themselves have challenged their initial comics setting.’ — Jan Baetens

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2020

Reviews

[Lou Braibant · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alright, took wayyyy toooo looooong to finish this and I partly blame life and a lack of self-discipline, but also the book.

It is good at establishing what the project is about, gives thought-provoking examples, has a very cool design, and discusses key players in the field - content-wise: very good.

However, at times, some of the contributors get so philosophical, use such dense academic jargon, or lose themselves in linguistically extremely complex ambiguities to such an extent that it slows down the reading, or even halts the reading.

A very engaging book, but also a very inaccessible one. (And I know Post-Comics are very meta and hard to understand, etc., but what would the point be when you would/could lose people who want to learn about it ... just afraid it would implode as a result of that)