Featuring: Canan Marasligi, Carlo Vergara, Evangeline Neo,Foo Swee Chin, Mari Morimoto
Moderated by: Peejay Catacutan

Date: 24 Sep, 2017
Time: 12.15pm – 1.30pm
Venue: Play Den, The Arts House
Tickets: $10; $8 (students and senior citizens); $38 Forum Pass | Get your tickets here

Comic artists utilise both drawings and text to create the most impact. However, does translating comics go beyond just replacing the original words in the speech balloons? Translators also have to contend with practical issues, like fitting the new language into text boxes, maintaining the narrative, and even redrawing! This panel addresses the tension between the visual and written modes, and ways to preserve the comics’ artistic integrity.