Tarwar

Published by Ink Press (Greece)

Ilan Manouach’s Tarwar expands upon the author’s earlier work, Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge, but broadens its scope to explore global comics. By leveraging computer vision technologies to study thousands of comics from diverse cultures, Tarwar zeroes in on one recurring visual element: the black panel. These iconic elements, discovered in comics across genres and regions and cultural context all over the world, prompt reflection and signify narrative pauses, often evoking themes of introspection and suspense. Embracing the universality of this motif, Tarwar, entirely composed by black panels, reveals how comics serve as a shared language that transcends geographic, cultural, and stylistic boundaries, creating a collective narrative experience in a globalized world.