14.06.2022
Text and drawing’s «confrontention»
Vanishing flower pots that herald a world in decay, the death of a tombstone cutter that leaves a great void, and a nightmarish birthday surprise in the open country. These stories, imagined…
Category : Illustration major
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…
14.01.2021
Once upon a time
Interview with Annie A. Marca
For her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication, Annie a Marca authored a comic book with stylised illustrations, frightening lights and looming cast shadows. This variation on Perrault’s tale Little Red Riding Hood…
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,…
26.11.2019
Some fragments of conversation
An interview with Jeff Délez
Discourse around comics is often dominated by the question of drawing. Freshly graduated after majoring in Image/Story, Jeff Délez embarked on an experiment in which issues relating to decoupage are of paramount…
01.10.2019
Head voices IV – Tomi Ungerer
In discussion with Thérèse Willer
Every month, Ambroise Tièche unearths a notable lecture given at the HEAD – Genève during its history, from past to present. Most of the video recordings he uses have never been made…
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…
19.04.2019
Talking Heads – Claude Barras
It took Claude Barras ten years to complete his first full-length animation film My Life as a Courgette (2016), which tells the story of a young, round-faced, big-eyed orphan boy. The film…
01.03.2019
Éclairer les recoins
An interview with Jean-Christophe Menu
Passing through Geneva in 2018, the comic-book author and founder of the independent publishing houses L’Association and L’Apocalypse Jean-Christophe Menu sat down with Clément Paurd to talk about his obsessions. Menu explains…