TEHRAN -- A meeting titled “Challenges of Comic Illustration” with a focus on ‘Ashura Graphic Novel’ was held here Tuesday by Iran’s Book and Literature House in Cooperation with the Ketab Ara Institute.
The Iranian Association of Books for Children and Young Adults Publishers participated in the program.
It aimed to address the challenges of depicting historical-religious comic books with the authors of ‘Ashura Graphic Novel’ Parviz Eghbali, a faculty member of the Shahed University, and Parviz Haseli, a faculty member of the Shahed University who is also a member of the painting department of Visual Arts Center in attendance.
So far, their book ‘Ashura Graphic Novel’ has been translated and published in 14 languages.
The Ketab Ara Institute is the organizer of special graphic design and illustration meetings, which held training workshops in such fields as illustration, infographics, fonts, and design at the latest Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF).
The topics discussed in the meeting included the etudes and initial sketches of the ‘Ashura Graphic Novel’, challenges of depicting historical-religious portraits (in graphic novels, how to depict the portraits of the Shia saints in the book illustration, text and image features appropriate for comic books, point of view in the illustration of comic books, how to use the elements of Ta’zieh and Islamic painting in religious illustration, getting to know the art of illustration to create a work of art, and so on.