Depicting The Impossible: Mediating Meaning Through Formal Play

09/14/2025 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm | Brookside C

How do you express sound in comics? How do you depict horrifying trauma without it overwhelming you? How do you adapt a story that doesn’t seem to fit in comics? Faith Cox will discuss how innovative formal solutions and play can help depict the impossible with Kayla E. (Precious Rubbish), Joonas Sildre (Between Two Sounds), Paul Karasik (New York Trilogy), and Peter Kuper (Insectopolis).

Panelists: Kayla E, Peter Kuper, Joonas Sildre, Paul Karasik, Faith Cox

Special Guests: Joonas Sildre, Kayla E., Paul Karasik, and Peter Kuper