Henrik Rehr will present a lecture via Skype entitled “Terrorism and the Graphic Novel.”
Henrik Rehr is a prolific Danish cartoon artist and recently awarded author, known by the general public at home and abroad as the artist behind children’s and newpaper comics like Ferd’nand and Rasmus Klump (‘Petzi’), and since the 1990s residing in New York.
The body of Henrik’s personal work revolves around his efforts to understand the personal motivations of political fanatics after his personal experience of 9/11, which he experienced, living with his family just a block away from ground zero.
In the acclaimed graphic novels, Tuesday and Tribeca Sunset, Henrik reflects on reminiscing and coming to terms with the traumatic experience, individually and collectively. As a comic artist and a Dane in New York, Henrik consciously juxtaposes his subjective, sequential medium (the graphic novel) to the generalized narrative of mass media.
Henrik’s latest work, Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who ignited World War I, takes his perspective back in history to tell the stories from the individual perspectives of two men involved in an equally radical event in European history, archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his assassin, Bosnian separatist Gavrilo Princip. The novel (from 2014) has been translated into 6 languages and recently nominated for the Danish State Radio Literature Award.
Within the context of Danish literature, Henrik Rehr contributes to the general trend of autobiographical fiction with an individual medium and style, which has been compared to Art Spiegelmann and Joe Sacco, and recently reviewed as: the high point, so far, in the present golden age of Danish comic art.
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2015
5:00pm (refreshments at 4:45pm).
Lecture will be presented via Skype
