Renowned author and innovator of the comic book form, Chris Ware explores how this medium can shape the complexity of human experience and help us understand it.

Chris Ware is one of the most innovative modern comic book artists. In his hands, the comic book becomes an exceptional means for exploring the complexity of the world and the depth of human experience. With almost microscopic visual and narrative precision, Ware delves into the nooks and crannies of consciousness and gives graphic form to the inner life of his characters.

For Ware, comic books are a superlative means of representing this simultaneity of action, thought, emotion and memory that shapes our experience. Like the best literature, what his characters do in his cartoons exists alongside what they feel or imagine, in the constant, disordered flow in which we process or feel the world internally, from the most carefully constructed thoughts to the memories or desires that spring up without order or warning when we close our eyes or are waiting for the bus, and that we often neither want nor know how to express. From Jimmy Corrigan to Rusty Brown, his stories are like windows open on feelings that are often invisible, like loneliness, shame or the desire to be loved, and invite us to look closely, with radical empathy, even at those characters who make us uncomfortable or hold up a mirror to us.

The session has a pedagogical dossier (in Catalan) so that the students can work on the contents beforehand in the classroom and thus make the most out of the lecture.

This activity is part of Talks for secondary school students