Graphic storytelling: teaching experience and utility
Fisher, Darren (2021) Graphic storytelling: teaching experience and utility. CLOSURE: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung (8). pp. 129-142. ISSN 2363-7765
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Waves of rolling economic shutdowns throughout the world in 2020 and into 2021 have, among other things, led to reappraising art’s value concerning essential work‹ that sustains modern human life. A renewed appreciation of art’s impact on our mental, physical, and emotional health has arisen because our routines and liberties face such profound disruption and ongoing uncertainty. This article will discuss the arts’ renewed functional social utility in this pandemic context, identifying drawing as 1) a foundational art that plays a crucial role in driving and developing myriad art forms and 2) an accessible practice with benefits in mental health resilience and slow-living skills. A key focus of this article is Neil Cohn’s 2012 paper »Explaining Can’t Draw: Parallels between the Structure and Development of Language and Drawing«, which provides a template from which to integrate supporting ideas and research.
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