Karol Patoła

I am a graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. I am involved in drawing, comic art and self-publishing related to independent comics. At the moment I am working on my own feature comic and taking part in festivals in Poland and abroad, related to comics, games and pop culture in general. I am a member of Polish Indie, an association of independent comics creators. I have also had the pleasure of leading bookbinding and comics art workshops in the drawing studios of the Academy of Fine Arts. I have also been active in the student government of the Graphic Design Department. In 2022, I defended my MA degree in the Narrative Drawing Studio under the direction of Dr Jakub Woynarowski. The title of the project was A Guide to RPGs, which is a comic essay on role-playing games and was nominated for the 2023 Golden Chickens independent publications competition in the category of best debut 2022.
My project, based in the Doctoral School, is about role-playing games, particularly their intermediality and interdisciplinarity in terms of their design. I will explore the development of the currently popular art-punk RPG trend and the influence of comic art on game design, as well as the relationship of the artist as consumer and creator of role-playing games.
Supervisor: Prof. UKEN Dr. Małgorzata Niespodziewana-Rados
Associate supervisor; Dr. Bartosz Zaskórski
my portfolio: www.instagram.com/cultistcarl