93486 - Iconography and Iconology Workshop (E)

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 E

I EXIST, affirmations of paper, flesh and blood in the adventure comics

Prof. Sara Colaone

 1) First lesson

Introduction to comics as an expressive language and to drawing space in illustrated books and comics for children.

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.

Doscussion 1 hour

Readings/Bibliography

Luca Tortolini, Sara Colaone, Anna e la famosa avventura nel bosco stregato raccontata da lei stessa, Milano : 2019,BAO Publishing

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

Crockett Johnson, Spiaggia magica, Orecchio Acerbo, 2013

P. Bailly, C. Fraipoint, Petit Poilu, Serie, Dupuis editions

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

Assessment methods

Exposition 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