Drawing in the glow of generative machines: Comics as research method for speculative futures
A cartoonist, geographer, and economist collaborate on narrative maps of Brussels 2050, arguing that comics' capacity to ground data in its material conditions makes it a model speculative method.
Monsters, Mercenaries and Me: Comics Research as Plaited Exegesis
Proposes a hybrid 'Plaited Exegesis' method for comics research that integrates making and reflection, demonstrated through a transmedial adaptation of an urban myth into a Creepypasta comic.
How to talk about technology without talking about technology? A practice-based approach in comics art
Explores how to embed EU democratic values—equity, transparency, autonomy—into fictional comics stories without foregrounding technology, developed through a practice-based rhetorical process.
We Have Always Been Sequential. Comics as Experimental Methodology for Language-based Artistic Research
Investigates comics as posthumanist experimental methodology, using an LLM to transpose literary text into code that remixes speculative atlas drawings with continuous prose.
Speculative Autoethnography Through Comics: Reversing Big Tech’s Gaze and Reclaiming the Story
Proposes speculative autoethnography through ChatGPT-generated comics as a feminist method for conducting fieldwork inside Big Tech, deliberately obscuring traces under corporate surveillance.
Stretching the tension: Alternative comic as a disobedient machine
Argues that experimental minimal comics—stripped of characters, built on sequentiality—function as analog image-generation machines that resist and mirror AI's own logic of visual apparition.
Against the Algos: How Swedish Comic Artists Navigate an Uncertain and Evolving Labor Market in the Age of Digitalization
A three-year Swedish Research Council project mapping how comic artists navigate the labour market amid generative AI, through surveys and interviews across artistic generations.