Eszter Szep Talks: Drawing the Body, Movement & Vulnerability of the Comic Book Line!
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Eszter Szep discusses the centrality of the body in comics as well as the vulnerability of the line in Lynda Barry, Joe Sacco, Miriam Katin. Along the way we learn about the history of Hungary's Képregény (Picture-Novel), her own Comics & The Body and her co-created scholarly comic "Lines and Bodies" as well as the International Comics Festival in Budapest. "Drawing the body, movement of the body & its interpretation is at the heart of how we approach comics"
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