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Bicycle hippie: Sketching beyond the boundaries of time and space – developing scrawled memories of the past
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3). (Malmö university comics hub)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1922-021X
2015 (English)In: Voyages. Sixth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference & Ninth International Bande Dessinée Society Conference, 22nd-26th June 2015. University of London Institute in Paris / [ed] Catriona MacLeod, 2015Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Contemporary Swedish comics feature three strong genres: Autobiography, politics and feminism. Some of these comics, often drawn in expressive “crude” styles and echoing the famous slogan of the 60s that “ the personal is political”, have become nothing less than national bestsellers. To understand this shift in the Swedish comics market, from mainstream towards the “avant-garde”, one must take a look at the emergence of autobiographical comics in the mid 90s. These comics were often accused of being drawn in “crude” styles, by artists consciously lowering their standards. But the trend was (at it’s peak) so dominant that even established artists and publishers followed it and thus reached new audiences. Being one of the forerunners of this trend in Sweden, I have reflected upon the acceptance of these “scrawled” narratives and also on the development of my own style, as a result of my efforts to recreate memories of voyages in the past. The questions I raised before creating these comics were: What do memories look like? And:How do I recreate them in a believable way? What I found out by venturing into the past  was that this “stenographic” style actually conveyed realism in a more believable way, than realistically drawn images, and made me realise that my work actually corresponded with Töppfers theories on “systematic scrawling”.

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2015.
Keywords [en]
comics, Töpffer, comics styles, autobiography
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Visual Arts Literary Composition
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-57879OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-57879DiVA, id: diva2:1731662
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Voyages. Sixth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference & Ninth International Bande Dessinée Society Conference, 22nd-26th June 2015. University of London Institute in Paris
Available from: 2023-01-27 Created: 2023-01-27 Last updated: 2024-06-11Bibliographically approved

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