Biography
Benjamin Stroun is a lecturer in Visual Arts and Visual Communication at the HEAD – Genève. He teaches Comics History and Comparative History of Comics and Visual Arts. Stroun occasionally organises comic-book exhibitions, in which artists are invited to create an original work matching the walls of the exhibition space.
Still within the framework of the HEAD – Genève, Stroun created an online class in 2017, “Initiation à la bande-dessinée” (Comics: an Introduction), allowing anyone to get their start in the field of sequential narration, regardless of their drawing skills.
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06.12.2021
Catherine Meurisse’s Pantheon
An interview with comics artist conducted by Benjamin Stroun
As part of a research project, Benjamin Stroun (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) sat down with Catherine Meurisse, author of the comics La Légèreté (Dargaud, 2016), Les Grands espaces (Dargaud, 2018), and more…
04.01.2021
Brilliant tiny tragedies
Self published works by Julietta Saccardi and Dorodea Leone
Over the course of a workshop, Bachelor students majoring in Image/Story created artist’s books they individually produced, which were intended to be presented at the P.A.G.E.S. book fair. Comic books, leporello books,…
12.09.2019
This is not a test
About SUV by Helge Reumann
Helge Reumann published his new comic book SUV at the Editions Atrabile in 2019. Benjamin Stroun, Reuman’s colleague at the HEAD’s Image/Story major, dedicated a text to him in which he looks…