V–A–C Sreda online magazine continues its three-month programme dedicated to memory and its relationship to history, archives, and nostalgia.
In this episode, we discuss comics. How are they connected to memory? Why are superheroes in fact deeply traumatized characters? Did comics exist in the Soviet Union, and how is the genre developing today?
V–A–C Sreda editor Maxim Shibaev considers these and other questions with Aleksei Iorsh—artist, lecturer in Theory and History of Comics at the HSE School of Design, and one of the founders of Russia’s first comics studio, “KOM.”