Journal article

Publication year: 2014

Pages: 64-89

Journal: European Comic Art

Volume number: 7

Issue number: 2

ISSN: 1754-3797

eISSN: 1754-3800

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2014.070204

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

Abstract: 

With Epileptic, French comics artist David B. presents a graphic novel as innovative in style as it is experimental in content. In the foreground, Epileptic is an autobiographical tale about his youth overshadowed by his brother's suffering from epilepsy, but it is also the illustration of a dream-world. David B. consequently entangles the levels of reality, autobiography and dreamlike fantasy. Emphasised by the interaction of clear graphics with hard black-and-white contrasts and the use of surrealistic and medieval quotations, David B. presents a unique combination of art, narrative and abstraction.

Harvard Citation style: Ahrens, J. (2014) Imagine Reality : Negotiating Comics with David B.'s Epileptic, European Comic Art, 7(2), pp. 64-89. https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2014.070204

APA Citation style: Ahrens, J. (2014). Imagine Reality : Negotiating Comics with David B.'s Epileptic. European Comic Art. 7(2), 64-89. https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2014.070204