The Comics Author in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction of the Author

5 October 2026
Universiteit Gent
Blandijnberg 2

Program

9.15-9.30 Opening remarks (Lokaal 1.13)
Giorgio Busi Rizzi and Maaheen Ahmed
(Universiteit Gent)

9.30-10.15 Panel 1 Beyond the Prompt:
Stories AI Can’t Tell (Yet) (Lokaal 1.13)
Presenter: Kai Tan (Universiteit Gent)
Discussant: Lou Braibant (Universiteit Gent)

10.15-11.00 Panel 2 On Not Being Able to
Draw: Authorship and the Self and in Luz,
Meurisse and Coco (Lokaal 1.13)
Presenter: Yasco Horsman (Leiden
University)
Discussant: Sébastien Conard (LUCA School
of Arts)

11.00-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-12.00 Panel 3 Graphic Narration:
Distinction – Authorship – Style
(Faculteitsraadzaal)
Presenter: Lukas Etter (Universität Siegen –
online)
Discussant: Eva Van de Wiele (Universiteit
Gent)

12.00-13.00 Lunch break

13.00-13.45 Panel 4 Taming the Archive:
documentary comics and photographic
remediation (Faculteitsraadzaal)
Presenter: Greice Schneider (Universidade
Federal de Sergipe)
Discussant: Kin Wai Chu (Universiteit Gent)

13.45-14.30 Panel 5 Embodied Authorship
as Fiction: Constructing Traces of Authorial
Authenticity through the Digital Fabrication
of Aura in Graphic Novels
(Faculteitsraadzaal)
Presenter: Gareth Brookes (Kingston
University London – online)
Discussant: Felipe Muhr (Universiteit Gent –
online)

14.30-14.45 Coffee Break

14.45-15.30 Panel 6 Challenging the ‘Ninth
Art’ History with French Pocket-Size
Comics (Faculteitsraadzaal)
Presenter: Olivier Stucky (BnF)
Discussant: Benoît Crucifix (KU Leuven, KBR)

15.30-16.00 Conclusions (Faculteitsraadzaal)
Giorgio Busi Rizzi and Maaheen Ahmed
(Universiteit Gent)