Miraculously combining a perfect memory for both emotional and physical detail with the sometimes painful lucidity two and half decades' distance have brought to her understanding of the events, Lust meticulously shows the who, where, when, and how (specifically, how an often penniless young girl can survive for months on the road) of a sometimes dangerous and sometimes exhilarating journey. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive, and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece. We will talk about your narrative intentions and what can actually be seen on the paper.Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Mentoring a comic project is not just mental support, it is quite similar to the work of an editor.
“Comics are a complex medium-countless decisions have to be made concerning the layers of interrelated aspects of a comic: The images, text, storyline, composition, consistency, and so on. The author’s job is to enable the readers to see other people’s perspective and understand their feelings, to transmit the experience, how it feels to be in other people’s skin.”Īpplicants should ideally have some experience in graphic storytelling and comics, and perhaps have even already created a book. Any historic or biographical incident gets its significance by the emotions it triggers in us.
The images do not have to represent an utterly realistic view comics can translate the sensations that come with being alive.
“The question is how to shape it into an exciting visual narrative. “Any real-life event can be the cause for comics,” she says. As a mentor, Lust is seeking applicants who want to create a nonfiction comic work, be it documentary, autobiographical, or based on historical events.
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