A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels)

He is the creator of Dispossession, the first graphic adaptation of a novel by Anthony Trollope, instigator of The Marie Duval Archive and, since 1990, half of international artists team Grennan & Sperandio.. Simon Grennan is an internationally acclaimed scholar of visual narrative, graphic novelist and cartoonist

The book’s originality derives from its clear articulation of a wide range of sources in proposing a conception of narrative drawing, and the extrapolation of this new conception in two new visual demonstrations.. From the Back CoverThis book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior. The book identifies and examines key issues in the field, including: the relation

It then tests this new conception in practice: two original visual demonstrations clarify the particular dialectic relationships between subjects and media, in an examination of drawing style and genre, social consensus and self-conscious constraint. This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior. The book’s originality derives from its clear articulation of a wide range of sources in proposing a conception of narrative drawing, and the extrapolation of this new conception in two new visual demonstrations.. It refigures the existing descriptions of visual story-telling that pause with theorizations of perception and the articulation of form. The book identifies and examines key issues in the field, including: the relationships between vision, visualization and imagination;