Literary Art
6th Global Africas: Comics and the Art of Investigation
Comics, in their many forms, can be rich sites of multimodal meaning-making where image, text, visual style, color, and layout are but some of the key elements that work in concert to generate narratives and shape our understanding of them.
The 6th Global Africas event, “Comics and the Art of Investigation,” is a symposium dedicated to exploring the increasing use of comics as a site of inquiry featuring artists Gaspard Njock and Annick Kamgang. Though their visual styles and narrative approaches differ, these artists equally draw from both their own experiences and research to generate contemplative graphic novels that inform readers of complex sociohistorical realities through human interactions.
