93486 - Iconography and Iconology Workshop (D)

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary Teacher Education (cod. 5711)

Course contents

Iconology and Iconography Workshops D

THE Art of CARTOONS As a TREE

Prof. Sara Colaone

1) First lesson

Introduction to comics as an expressive language.

Practical part 3

hours Collective work on storytelling.

2) Second lesson

Telling with drawing, not just with the plot.

Practical part 2 hours

Individual work on graphic experimentation, sign refinement and expressiveness.

Discussion 1 hour

Readings/Bibliography

Not mandatory:

Italo Calvino, Sara Colaone, Il barone rampante, adattamento a fumetti, Milano : 2023, Mondadori

Ferruccio Bianchi, Patrizia Farello, Lavorare sul fumetto. Unità didattiche e schede operative, Trento : 2016, Erickson

Crockett Johnson, Spiaggia magica, Orecchio Acerbo, 2013

Suzy Lee, Mirror, Corraini, 2003

David Wiesner, Mr. Ubik!, Roma : 2015, Orecchio Acerbo

Teaching methods

Introduction

practice and discussion

Assessment methods

Exposition of the work in small groups

evaluation in -1/0/+1 

Teaching tools

Dear students,

Please don't forget to bring to the lessons:

- sheets of classic A4 photocopy paper (4-8 sheets + another 10 blank sheets), which you can glue together with adhesive tape (cross) to form two rectangular A2 sheets.

- pencil and eraser

- A black felt-tip pen, or a pencil with a normal tip and a thick black felt-tip pen.

Office hours

See the website of Sara Colaone