Theory of Narrative Drawing

Simon Grennan is an internationally acclaimed scholar of visual narrative, graphic novelist and cartoonist. He is the creator of Dispossession, the first graphic adaptation of a novel by Anthony Trollope, instigator of The Marie Duval Archive and, since 1990, half of international artists team Grennan & Sperandio.

“An ambitious contribution to the expanding literature dedicated to theorizing comics and visual storytelling, A Theory of Narrative Drawing is impressive in both approach and depth of research. … Summing Up: Recommended. … Graduate students, researchers, faculty.” (S. B. Skelton, Choice, Vol. 55 (8), April, 2018)“A Theory of Narrattve Drawing delivers what its title promises and will be a rewarding read to students and scholars of both drawing in general and comics in particular, who are interested in considering aspects of the production and reception of drawings beyond its technical aspects.”( Antonia Purk, Closure, closure.uni-kiel.de, Issue 5, November, 2018)

• Chapter 1: Drawing, depicting and imagining.- Chapter 2: Narrative.- Chapter 3: Drawing Demonstration One: expounding another’s thought in the style of that thought.- Chapter 4: Drawing Demonstration Two: time and self-observation.