The Manual of Violence project, an investigation into the history and narrativization of violence, has stretched several years and a dozen workshops, couple of games, countless classrooms programs, and a full-length comic book teaching manual (in progress) based on the author's ongoing conversations about violence with young children.
Brea is the first fictional installment in this series: an abstract illustrated story of two canny kids grappling with a magical and terrible heaviness around them in the wake of their school’s closure.Dimensions:
5 H x 6.5 L x 0.5 W"Materials: Softcover book
Carlos Matallana
(Avondale)
Matallana's body of work implies two well defined means, political criticism via illustration; and civic empowerment by virtue of New Media workshops. This last one with special attention to social interactions, bridge generation, and civic engagement. His illustration tool is ink/pen on paper, relying on the expressionism qualities of high contrast.
