Comics On Violence


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Creator/Artist: Hemant Kumar

Category: Communication Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2005-2007

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  1999-2008

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Anirudha Joshi


Detailed Description

This project is aimed towards addressing the issue of violence that is changing many lives voluntarily or involuntarily. It is an attempt to understand the concerns and effects of violence and communicate the same through a medium often criticised for glorifying it: comics (defined by Scott McCloud as juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer”). Despite the great potential that the medium of comics offers in communicating ideas and storytelling, its application has been quite limited in popular culture. Comics have been criticised for promoting and selling violent content to kids. Still, there is a lot more to comics than popular culture. The project seeks to provide a view of the notions of violence and its existence in a society through exploring the medium of comics. Through the project I aim to build an outlook of things as they are and as they should be in a world so restless and impatient to resort to violence for all that is unfair and unjust.