BOARD MEMBERS
Angelo Piepoli
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
I am committed to promoting the movement of knowledge on Comics Studies.
I have been into comics and graphic narrative forever. I joined the group in 2009, participated in the formal establishment of the Research Committee in 2015, and have not stopped working on our team's initiatives since then. Including the creation and maintenance of this website.
C-S Publications
2021
"Graphic Narrative's Multimediality and the Weight of the Inferential Vehiculum in Interpretation." In Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga, Paola Desideri e Luciano Vitacolonna (Eds.), Dalla TESWEST alla Testologia Semiotica: Teoria, Metodi, Applicazioni, Carabba, Lanciano.
“Unsettled Narratives: Graphic Novel and Comics Studies in the Twenty-First Century,” section co-edition. In Paul Ferstl (Ed), Dialogues between Media, XXXI. Congress of the ICLA-Proceedings, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Munich/Boston.
"Unsettled Narratives: Graphic Novel and Comics Studies in the Twenty-First Century – A Preface", co-author with Lisa Detora and Umberto Rossi. In Paul Ferstl (Ed.), Dialogues between Media, XXXI. Congress of the ICLA-Proceedings, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Munich/Boston.
"Gender Gaps in The Clouds: Expressive Repression and Signs of Change in 1950s and 1960s Italian Comics." In Paul Ferstl (Ed), Dialogues between Media, XXXI. Congress of the ICLA-Proceedings, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Munich/Boston.
"Wordless: Interpreting Visual Sequence as Storytelling. Towards a Semiotic-Textological Approach to Comics and Pictorial Narrative Without Verbal Components." In Paul Ferstl (Ed.), Dialogues between Media, XXXI. Congress of the ICLA-Proceedings, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Munich/Boston.
"Le avventure multilingue e plurilingue di Tintin [The Multilingual and Plurilingual Adventures of Tintin]." In K. A. Knauth, H.-G. Grüning (Eds.), Imaginaire et idéologie du plurilinguisme littéraire et numérique, LIT Verlag, Berlin.
"Sequential Art between Language and Textuality." In International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA), Volume 13, No.2.
"Fondamenti di un approccio testologico semiotico al testo fumettistico [Foundations of a Semiotic-Textological Approach to the Comics Text]." In L. Vitacolonna (Ed.), Prospettive di semiotica del testo [Perspectives of Text Semiotics], Carabba, Lanciano.
"La rivoluzione delle nuvole. Censura e contestazione nel fumetto degli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta [Revolution of the Clouds. Censorship and Protest in the Comics of the Fifties and Sixties]." In S. Casilio, L. Guerrieri (Eds.), Il ’68 diffuso/The Widespread '68, Volume 2, Clueb, Bologna.
"L’esotico tra romanzo per ragazzi e narrativa disegnata. Alcuni esempi da fine Ottocento ad oggi [Exotic Between Children’s Literature and Drawn Narrative. Some Examples from the late Nineteenth Century to Today]." In H.-G. Grüning (Ed.), Heteroglossia, Volume 10, EUM, Macerata.
Il comunicato fumettistico. Introduzione a un approccio testologico semiotico [Comics Communicate. Introduction to a Semiotic-Textological Approach]. PhD Thesis. B.C.N. Roma/Firenze.
"Ken Parker e l’interferenza semiologica tra linguaggi. L’analisi cinematografica del fumetto e la teoria di Christian Metz [Ken Parker and the Semiological Interference Between Languages. Film Analysis of Comics and the Theory of Christian Metz]." In G. N. Ricci (Ed.), Heteroglossia, Volume 9, EUM, Macerata.
Into C-S
2024
Co-organized and co-chaired the international conference "Framing the Unreal. Exploring Graphic/Visual Science Fiction and Fantasy" on behalf of the ICLA RC on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative, in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Venice.
2021
Co-organized and co-chaired the international conference "Visual Depictions of the American West. How the West Was Drawn and What It Showed Us" on behalf of the ICLA RC on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative, in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Venice.
2019
Co-organised and co-chaired the seminar "Epistemologies and Graphic Narratives: Making and Communicating Knowledge in Hybrid Forms” on behalf of the ICLA RC on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative. ESCL Biennial Conference, Lille.
"Embodying the Invisible. Drawn Storytelling and Human Experience". ESCL Biennial Conference, Lille. Paper presentation.
2017
Organised and co-chaired the seminar "Who's Bad? Representing Heroes, Villains and Anti-Heroes in Comics and Graphic Narratives” on behalf of the ICLA RC on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative. ACLA Annual Conference, Utrecht.
"Gea and the Discovery of the Villain". ACLA Annual Conference, Utrecht. Paper presentation.
2016
"Wordless. How a visual sequence becomes storytelling". ICLA Triennial Conference, Vienna. Paper presentation.
"Gender gaps in the clouds. Conservation and Revolution in the Italian comics". ICLA Triennial Conference, Vienna. Paper presentation.
2013
"The digital life of Comics". ICLA Triennial Conference, Paris. Paper presentation.
2012-2013
Wrote and presented Splash Page!, a weekly radio programme on comics and graphic narrative production and publishing, hosting authors, artists and publishers. RUM - Radio Universitá di Macerata.
2007-2013
As a Teaching Assistant for courses in Semiotics and Applied Semiotics, led several seminars on the languages of advertising, films and comics. Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Macerata.
Researched on the representation of human figure in print ads and in comics. Centre for documentation and research on semiotic-textological approaches to multimediality and intermediality, Department of Education and Training Sciences, University of Macerata.
2011
“The Places of Sequential Art: Multilingual Differences in Contemporary Graphic Storytelling Types”. International symposium "Multilingualism in Contemporary World Literature". Department of Studies in Social Change, Legal Institutions and Communication, University of Macerata. Paper presentation.
2010
"Creating linguistic and socio-cultural innovation of the Story". International symposium "Symbols and metaphors of transformation". Department of Studies in Social Change, Legal Institutions and Communication, University of Macerata. Paper presentation.
"Sequential Art between Language and Multiculturality". Symposium "Graphic Narratives: Animations, Comic Books, Cartoons, and Graphic Novels", ICLA Triennial Conference, Seoul. Paper presentation.
2007
Organised and participated in “Reading Comics”, interdepartmental cycle of seminars and workshops on the language of comics. Department of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Macerata.
ICLA Research Commitee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (2024)
