Materiality in Comics - Reframing Sequential Function in Graphic Novels by Confronting the Page as Surface.

这个以实践为基础的博士学位试图重新构建我们对平面小说中印刷表面的思考方式。我想要定义表面在视觉叙事的解释机制中所起的作用，并利用这些发现开辟顺序阅读的新形式。为此，我需要与漫画一起研究书籍艺术和文学批评。在这些领域，重要性的问题是普遍的，但还没有进行基于比较实践的研究。我使用这个术语，是指研究构成一本书的物理表面，组成原始艺术作品的材料、行为和支撑，以及这些如何在印刷页面上表现出来。这些材料状态之间的关系，读者对它们的解释，以及它们通过技术进行的调解，广泛地定义了我感兴趣的领域。这些研究将制定一个以实践为基础的计划，其中我将制作三个图解叙事。虽然这些叙事以图画小说形式为基础，但将利用我在更广泛的研究中遇到的理论解释方法。它们的制作将涉及浸泡、刺绣和烙印等材料过程，这些过程通过湿气对材料的作用、材料的穿透和材料的燃烧来挑战页面表面。我创作的图形叙事将通过对物质性的更深入理解来描述顺序创新的可能性，努力发展图形小说中的物质性理论。这样做的目的是确定这些领域的连续战略，并对重要性在其职能中发挥的作用作出定义。除了提出新的理论解释方法外，这项研究还将对我们如何数字化消费漫画产生影响，并提出更微妙的方法来实现图形叙事的数字化。

This practice based PhD seeks to reframe the way we think about printed surface in graphic novels. I want to define the role materiality of surface plays in the interpretive mechanism of visual narrative, and use these findings to open up new forms of sequential readings.To do this, I will need to research Book Arts and Literary Criticism alongside Comics. The issue of materiality is common across these fields, but no comparative practice based research has yet been carried out.The term materiality as I use it, means the study of the physical surfaces that make up a book, the materials, actions and supports that comprise the original art work, and how this is represented by the printed page. The relationship between these material states, their interpretation by readers, and their mediation by technology, broadly defines my area of interest. These researches will frame a practice based program, wherein I will produce three graphic narratives. Though grounded in the graphic novel form, these narratives will utilise theoretical methods of interpretation encountered in my wider research. Their production will involve the material processes of soaking, embroidery, and pyrography which challenge the page surface through the action of moisture on material, the piercing of material, and the burning of material.The graphic narratives I create will form an account of the possibilities for sequential innovation opened up by a deeper understanding of materiality, working toward the development of a theory of materiality in graphic novels. The aim of this is to identify sequential strategies across these fields and arrive at a definition of the role materiality plays in their function. As well suggesting new methods of theoretical interpretation, this research will have implications for how we consume comics digitally and suggest more nuanced approaches to the digitisation of graphic narratives.