Comics Inside Out: An Interview with Elena Vitagliano
Authors: Gee, M.
Journal: East Asian Journal of Popular Culture
Volume: 3
Issue: 1
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
DOI: 10.1386/eapc.3.1.115_1
Abstract:In January 2016, an interdisciplinary conference was held at the University of York titled East Asian Popular Culture Conference, supported by the White Rose East Asia Centre, which aimed to reassess the position of East Asian popular culture research in the United Kingdom. Integral to the rationale behind the conference was an interest in exploring new methodological approaches to East Asian popular culture, therefore, one of the keynote speakers was a creative practitioner, Elena Vitagliano an Italian artist who lives in the United Kingdom. This interview explores how Vitagliano has been inspired by Japanese popular culture and has transformed these inspirations into comic book art that is a positive hybrid of European and Japanese styles. In this discussion Vitagliano assesses her creative process and examines her relationship to Japanese popular culture.
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