Appel à contribution – Call for Chapters: The Ilan Manouach Critical Reader
This collection of essays will focus on the works of Brussels/Athens-based artist Ilan Manouach (Athens, 1980). Manouach has been publishing since the early 2000s, with most of his output via Brussels art comics house La Cinquième Couche. While his practice has often been described as “experimental” or “conceptual”, his approaches have in fact been quite varied. Although he takes up multiple perspectives, some of his titles are particularly attentive to the interstices of the formal and expressive affordances of the comics medium (Blanco, Compendium of Franco-Belgian Comics, Un monde un peu meilleur) or to its political, economic and social implications (e.g. the microwork projects Harvested, The Cubicle Island and the forthcoming Peanuts Minus Schulz). Even more exemplary, perhaps, are the works in which he employs appropriation practices to ask challenging questions about the discipline through comics themselves (Katz,MetaKatz, Noirs, Cascao, La ballade de la mer sale). Moreover, Manouach has also been at the [...]