A meeting titled “Challenges of Comic Illustration” with a focus on ‘Ashura Graphic Novel’ will be held by Iran’s Book and Literature House in Cooperation with Ketab Ara Institute in Tehran today.
The Iranian Association of Books for Children and Young Adults Publishers is also participating in the program and will host the session in its office at 4:30 to 6 PM.
This meeting is aimed to address the challenges of depicting historical-religious comic books with the authors of ‘Ashura Graphic Novel’ Parviz Eghbali, a faculty member of the Shahed University, and Parviz Haseli, a faculty member of the Shahed University who is also a member of the painting department of Visual Arts Center in attendance.
So far, their book ‘Ashura Graphic Novel’ has been translated and published in 14 languages.
Ketab Ara Institute is the organizer of special graphic design and illustration meetings, and at the latest Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) held training workshops in fields such as illustration, infographics, fonts, and design.
Among the topics to be discussed in the meeting are:
– Considering the etudes and initial sketches of ‘Ashura Graphic Novel’
– Introducing the challenges of depicting historical-religious portraits (in graphic novels)
– How to depict the portraits of the Shia saints (PBUH) in the book
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– Text and image features appropriate for comic books
– Point of view in the illustration of comic books
– How to use the elements of Ta’zieh and Islamic painting in religious illustration
– Getting to know the art of illustration to create a work of art, and so on.
Source: IBNA