European Comic Art 4.1 (2011)
Introduction: Diversity and New Directions
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Interview with Farid Boudjellal
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Author Mark McKinney
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'Corsican Speak' in Two French Bandes dessinées, or How to Manipulate Communication Rules: A Pragmatic Analysis
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Joann Sfar Conjures Marc Chagall: The Politics of Visual Representation in The Rabbi's Cat
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A Creative Culture Where It Is Hard to Make a Living: The Socio-Economic Situation of Comics Authors and Illustrators in Belgium
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The OP War, Libertarian Communication and Graphic Reportage in Georgian London
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Author James Baker
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Comic Art and Commitment: An Interview with Morvandiau
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Angoulême, 2011
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Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
Green Lantern and Philosophy
Green Lantern and Philosophy: No Evil Shall Escape this BookWilliam Irwin (Series Editor), Jane Dryden (Editor), Mark D. White (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-57557-4
Paperback
304 pages
May 2011
US $17.95
DESCRIPTION:
The first look at the philosophy behind the Green Lantern comics—timed for the release of the Green Lantern movie in June 2011
The most recent Green Lantern series—Blackest Night—propelled GL to be the top-selling comic series for more than a year, the latest twist in seven decades of Green Lantern adventures. This book sheds light on the deep philosophical issues that emerge from the Green Lantern Corps's stories and characters, from what Plato's tale of the Ring of Gyges tells us about the Green Lantern ring and the desire for power to whether willpower is the most important strength to who is the greatest Green Lantern of all time.
Gives you a new perspective on Green Lantern characters, story lines, and themes
Shows what philosophical heavy hitters such as Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant can teach us about members of the Green Lantern Corp and their world
Answers your most pressing Green Lantern questions, including: What motivates Hal Jordan to be a Green Lantern? Does the Blackest Night force us to confront old male/female stereotypes? What is the basis for moral judgment in the Green Lantern Corps? Is Hal Jordan a murderer?
Whether you're a new fan or an elder from Oa, Green Lantern and Philosophy is a must-have companion.
CONTENTS:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: No Gratitude Shall Escape.
Our Sight.
INTRODUCTION: Welcome to the Corps!
Part One Will and Emotion: The Philosophical Spectrum.
1The Blackest Night for Aristotle’s Account of Emotions (Jason Southworth).
2 Flexing the Mental Muscle: Green Lanterns and the Nature of Willpower (Mark D. White).
3 Women Are from Zamaron, Men Are from Oa (Sarah K. Donovan and Nicholas P. Richardson).
Part Two Emerald Ethics: It’s Not All Black and White.
4 Will They Let Just Anybody Join? Testing for Moral Judgment in Green Lantern Corps (Andrew Terjesen).
5 The Greatest Green Lantern: Aesthetic Admiration and the Praiseworthy Hero (Jane Dryden).
6 There Should Be No Forgiveness for Hal Jordan (Nicolas Michaud).
7 Morality, Atonement, and Guilt: Hal Jordan’s Shifting Motivations (Joseph J. Darowski).
Part Three I’m with Green Lantern: Friends and Relationships.
8 Hard-Traveling Ethics: Moral Rationalism vs. Moral Sentimentalism (Andrew Terjesen).
9. “I Despise Messiness”: The Plato-Aristotle Debate in the Troubled Friendship of Green Lantern and Green Arrow (Brett Chandler Patterson).
10 Can’t Live With ‘Em, Can’t Live Without ‘Em: Green Lantern, Relationships, and Autonomy (Jane Dryden).
Part 4. With This Ring, I Thee Swear: Power, Duty, and Law.
11 The Oaths of Soranik Natu: Can a Doctor Be a Green Lantern? (Ruth Tallman and Jason Southworth).
12 Crying for Justice: Retributivism for Those Who Worship Evil’s Might (Mark D. White).
13 Hate Crimes as Terrorism in Brother’s Keeper (Ron Novy).
14 Ring of Gyges, the Ring of the Green Lantern, and the Temptation of Power (Adam Barkman).
Part Five Don’t Tell Krona: Metaphysics, Mind and Time.
15 All For One and One For All: Mogo, the Collective, and Biological Unity (Leonard Finkelman).
16 Green Mind: The Book of Oa, the Lantern Corps, and Peirce’s Theory of Communal Mind (Paul R. Jaissle).
17 Shedding an Emerald Light on Destiny: The problem with Time Travel (Amy Kind).
Part Six Can Green Lantern Make a Boxing Glove He Can’s Lift? Powers and Limitations.
18. Another Glove? Green Lantern and the Limits of Imagination (Daniel P. Malloy).
19. “Beware my Power”: Leibniz and Green Lantern on God, Omnipotence, and Evil (Carsten Fogh Nielsen).
20. Magic and Science in the Green Lantern Mythos: Clarke’s Law, the Starheart, and Emotional Energy (Andrew Zimmerman Jones).
CONTRIBUTORS: Tales of the Philosophy Corps.
INDEX: The Book of Oa.
AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Jane Dryden is an assistant professor of philosophy at Mount Allison University.
Mark D. White is a professor in the Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. He coedited Batman and Philosophy and edited Watchmen and Philosophy and Iron Man and Philosophy.
William Irwin is a professor of philosophy at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and Mad Men and Philosophy.
Teaching Early Reader Comics and Graphic Novels
Teaching Early Reader Comics and Graphic NovelsAuthor: Katie Monnin
$23.95
ISBN 13: 978-1-936700-23-3
MH # 229
Engage even the youngest readers with Dr. Monnin’s standards-based lessons and strategic approach to teaching comics and graphic novels to early readers!
Examples from a wide variety of comics and graphic novels—including multicultural models—and recommended reading lists help teachers of grades K-6 seamlessly teach print-text and image literacies together. Teaching Early Reader Comics and Graphic Novels shows you how to address the unique needs of striving readers, connect reading and writing, teach the necessary terminology, and apply the standards to any graphic novel or comic for emerging through advanced readers.
A companion blog, www.teachinggraphicnovels.blogspot.com, offers free downloads, teaching tips, and updates on new comics and graphic novels you can use in your classroom.
Tap into the power of comics and graphic novels to engage all learners!
Downloads
Table of contents
Introduction
Sample lesson: "Example guided-reading lesson plan for teaching Big Fat Little Lit
in second- and third-grade classrooms"
Raves
“I wish I’d had this book, or a teacher who’d read this book, back when I was in school. But at least I have it now!”
–Jane Yolen, author of more than 300 books and graphic novels
"Katie Monnin is at it again! Useful, practical information on literacy and the comics form, playful literacy-building strategies, and engaging example images from excellent, age-appropriate comics and graphic novels characterize this new offering from one of the leading voices in the comics-and-literacy discourse. I share with my pre-service educators the mantra "You are the professional; the standards are the tools. You don't work for them; put them to work for you and your students!" and Monnin's standards-aware approach to literacy through comics and comics through literacy nails it. Anyone who reads Teaching Early Reader Comics and Graphic Novels will understand the best of what comics and graphic novels can offer young students."
–James Bucky Carter, award-winning comics scholar, author, and assistant professor of English education at the University of Texas at El Paso
“Dr. Katie Monnin’s passion for both graphic novels and education are inspiring. Using comics to reach out to young minds is a smart and effective way to teach foundational skills, and in Teaching Early Readers Comics and Graphic Novels, she offers the tools to do just that. The resources she offers here will not only help educate children—they'll also inspire a lifelong love of reading.”
–John Hogan, editor, GraphicNovelReporter.com
Friday, June 10, 2011
DC Comics News
USA Today offers two recent articles on upcoming changes at DC Comics:
DC Comics unleashes a new universe of superhero titles
DC Comics ready for a risky yet relevant publishing change
Further details on the re-launch can be found at DC's own blog:
The New Justice
DC Comics unleashes a new universe of superhero titles
DC Comics ready for a risky yet relevant publishing change
Further details on the re-launch can be found at DC's own blog:
The New Justice
The Smallville Chonicles
Edited by Lincoln Geraghty
List Price: $40.00
ISBN: 0-8108-8130-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8130-3
Pub Date: Sep 28, 2011
176 pages
Binding: Cloth
Availability: Not Yet Published
List Price: $40.00
ISBN: 0-8108-8131-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8131-0
Pub Date: Sep 28, 2011
176 pages
Binding: Electronic
Availability: Not Yet Published
DESCRIPTION
In 2001, yet another adaptation of the Superman comic book came to television. Lasting 10 seasons, Smallville took the traditional Superman story and turned it into an American teen action drama about Clark Kent's life at high school—before he donned the famous blue tights and red cape. Instead of depicting Superman's clashes with criminals in Metropolis, the show focused on how Clark first developed his powers and learned to cope with girls, school, and teenage angst. Although largely overlooked by critics and derided by Superman fans who regarded it as too far a departure from the comic book canon, Smallville nonetheless endeared a whole new generation of viewers. The setting, style, narrative, and cast of fresh-faced actors suggested that the Superman story was not only ready for a makeover but also still relevant for a post-9/11 American audience.
In The Smallville Chronicles: Critical Essays on the Television Series, scholars examine the multiple narratives of the Smallville universe. Addressing issues related to gender, sexuality, national identity, myth, history, and politics, these essays explore how the series uses the Superman story to comment on contemporary social issues. Additional essays investigate the complex relationship the show's audience has with the characters through blogging, fan fiction, visits to filming locations, and the creation of websites.
As the first book-length study specifically focused on the Smallville television series, this collection is an excellent text for studies in science fiction, fandom, and teen television scholarship, and it will also have general appeal to fans of the show.
CONTENTS (from Loc.gov):
Introduction: investigating Smallville / Lincoln Geraghty -- Texts and Contexts. From comic book to bildungsroman: Smallville, narrative, and the education of a young hero / Stan Beeler -- Televisual transformations: myth and social issues in Smallville / Karin Beeler -- The Kryptonite closet: silence and queer secrecy in Smallville / Jes Battis -- No flights, no tights: Smallville and the roles of special effects in television / Rayna Denison -- Audiences and meta-texts. Smallville: superhero mythos and intellectual property regimes / Ian Gordon -- Vids, vlogs, and blogs: the participatory culture of Smallville’s digital fan / Juli Stone Pitzer -- "I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore": Examining Smallville’s Canadian Cult Geography / Lincoln Geraghty -- Sacrifice or Salvation? Smallville’s Heroic Survival Amidst Changing Television Trends / Michael S. Duffy -- Index.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Lincoln Geraghty is principal lecturer in film studies in the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author or editor of several books on popular culture, including Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe (2007), Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television (Scarecrow, 2009), and Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood (2011).
The Smallville Chonicles
Edited by Lincoln Geraghty
List Price: $40.00
ISBN: 0-8108-8130-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8130-3
Pub Date: Sep 28, 2011
176 pages
Binding: Cloth
Availability: Not Yet Published
List Price: $40.00
ISBN: 0-8108-8131-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8131-0
Pub Date: Sep 28, 2011
176 pages
Binding: Electronic
Availability: Not Yet Published
DESCRIPTION
In 2001, yet another adaptation of the Superman comic book came to television. Lasting 10 seasons, Smallville took the traditional Superman story and turned it into an American teen action drama about Clark Kent's life at high school—before he donned the famous blue tights and red cape. Instead of depicting Superman's clashes with criminals in Metropolis, the show focused on how Clark first developed his powers and learned to cope with girls, school, and teenage angst. Although largely overlooked by critics and derided by Superman fans who regarded it as too far a departure from the comic book canon, Smallville nonetheless endeared a whole new generation of viewers. The setting, style, narrative, and cast of fresh-faced actors suggested that the Superman story was not only ready for a makeover but also still relevant for a post-9/11 American audience.
In The Smallville Chronicles: Critical Essays on the Television Series, scholars examine the multiple narratives of the Smallville universe. Addressing issues related to gender, sexuality, national identity, myth, history, and politics, these essays explore how the series uses the Superman story to comment on contemporary social issues. Additional essays investigate the complex relationship the show's audience has with the characters through blogging, fan fiction, visits to filming locations, and the creation of websites.
As the first book-length study specifically focused on the Smallville television series, this collection is an excellent text for studies in science fiction, fandom, and teen television scholarship, and it will also have general appeal to fans of the show.
CONTENTS (from Loc.gov):
Introduction: investigating Smallville / Lincoln Geraghty -- Texts and Contexts. From comic book to bildungsroman: Smallville, narrative, and the education of a young hero / Stan Beeler -- Televisual ransformations: myth and social issues in Smallville / Karin Beeler -- The Kryptonite closet: silence and queer secrecy in Smallville / Jes Battis -- No flights, no tights: Smallville and the roles of special effects in television / Rayna Denison -- Audiences and meta-texts. Smallville: superhero mythos and intellectual property regimes / Ian Gordon -- Vids, vlogs, and blogs: the participatory culture of Smallville’s digital fan / Juli Stone Pitzer -- "I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore": Examining Smallville’s Canadian Cult Geography / Lincoln Geraghty -- Sacrifice or Salvation? Smallville’s Heroic Survival Amidst Changing Television Trends / Michael S. Duffy -- Index.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Lincoln Geraghty is principal lecturer in film studies in the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author or editor of several books on popular culture, including Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe (2007), Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television (Scarecrow, 2009), and Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood (2011).
Thoughts on X-Men: First Class
I went to see X-Men: First Class this weekend. It is an entertaining reboot of the franchise and offers intriguing new perspectives on Professor X and Magneto, but the remaining mutants were an odd mix (though their powers were depicted convincingly). Beast was interesting (and an obvious choice), but an American Banshee (and a teenaged one at that) was off-setting. A young Havok was also an interesting choice, yet I missed the rest of the original "First Class": Cyclops, Ice Man, Angel, and Marvel Girl. Mystique starting out as X-Men offered an original take on the character (as was her relationship to Xavier), and it is interesting now to consider her arc in the original three films in light of this one.That said, the other X-Men--Darwin and Pixie--were lacking in much development and rationale for their inclusion (unless Pixie was only present as a counter for Banshee, who also flies); likewise, an American Moira MacTaggert (and an CIA opp to boot) seemed a strange choice. The villains caused similar confusion. Sebastian Shaw as a Nazi and Magneto's "Xavier" was very strange, and I cannot fathom the inclusion of Riptide and Azazel (perhaps he's here to foreshadow the origin of Nightcrawler from X2). However, the use of Emma Frost (here displaying much flesh and her secondary mutation) made sense given Shaw's presence.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Constructing Green Lantern
Constructing Green Lantern: From Page to Screen
Written by Ozzy Inguanzo, Introduction by Geoff Johns
Pub Date: May 31, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Category: Performing Arts - Film - General
Publisher: Universe
Trim Size: 8-1/2 x 11
US Price: $35.00
CAN Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-7893-2261-6
About This Book
From the creative group at DC Entertainment comes The Green Lantern, certain to be the hit of Summer 2011. The Art of The Green Lantern is the ultimate companion book to the movie, showcasing production ephemera including: storyboard art, character sketches, concept art, and still photos from the movie's sets. The Green Lantern will also contain observations and insights of the film by producers, art director, and various other film crew.
About the Author
Ozzy Inguanzo is Green Lantern's research and asset manager. He has been living at the epicenter of the Green Lantern movie for almost a year and a half. The filmmakers have told us that he is their resident expert on the comic books and the conceptual artwork produced for the film: from storyboards, creatures, and costumes, to environments, vehicles, and props. Geoff Johns is the Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment and a comic book writer. Johns is best known for his work on Superman, Green Lantern, and The Flash, and he is credited with bringing Green Lantern to its current levels of popularity.
Reviews
“A new book, Constructing Green Lantern: From Page to Screen, gives a kind of production diary that takes you through every stage of creating the movie’s weird vistas, alien landscapes and green energy constructs.” ~iO9.com
“Author Inguanzo, the films’ on-set Green Lantern expert and ‘Assets Manager,’ didn’t get the memo about writing fluffy movie tie-in books and actually wrote a detailed and intelligent production memoir, loaded with photos from the set, pre-viz art, storyboards and final composite images that at least prove that the filmmakers set out to do the character justice.” ~cartoonbrew.com
“Books like these can run the risk of becoming boring technical retellings, but Constructing avoids that problem by structuring the book to follow the plot of the film… It’s Inguanzo’s emphasis on story that makes Contructing a book you can actually sit down and read instead of just flipping through it looking for interesting bits.” ~bleedingcool.com
Monday, May 30, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Comics Scholarship at NeMLA 2011
The NeMLA 2011 Convention was held last month at the Hyatt New Brunswick in New Brunswick, New Jersey, from April 7-10, 2011, and included a variety of papers and sessions of interest. The complete program (divided by days) can be accessed at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2011/index.html.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8
4.04 Conference B
Seeing Texts and Speaking Images: Visual-Verbal Dialogues in Modernity
Chair: Mary V. Marchand, Goucher College
PAPER 3 OF 3: “Text and Image in Partnership: Narrative Intersections in Jeff Smith’s Bone”
Emily Lauer, Hunter College
6.11 Conference JK
Adoption in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Roundtable)
Chair: Nicole Furlonge, Stuart Country Day School
PAPER 1 OF 3: “The Collapse of the Reunion Fantasy in Daniel Clowes’ Wilson: An Adoption Counter Narrative”
Genie Giaimo, Northeastern University
PAPER 2 OF 3: “What is for others nature/is for us culture: Constructions of Adoption on Heroes”
Nicole Furlonge, Stuart Country Day School
8.04 Conference B
Naming and Framing: Identity Construction in Children’s Literature and Culture
Chair: Julie Cassidy, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
PAPER 2 OF 4: “Which Powerpuff Girl Are You?: Unsettling Identity Types and Redefining Conventional Girlhood”
Lisa Hager, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha
9.09 Conference G
Captions, Slogans, and Stares (Oh, My!): Image as Argument in College Writing (Roundtable)
Chair: Peter Witkowsky, Mount Saint Mary College
PAPER 6 OF 6: “Our President, the Monster: Graphic Political Arguments in the Composition Classroom”
Angela Francis, CUNY Graduate Center
SATURDAY, 9 APRIL
11.07 Conference D
Serial Narratives and Temporality
Chair: Toni Pape, Université de Montréal
“‘Make It Repeatable’: Postmodern Seriality and the Repetition of What Is Yet to Come”
Stephen Hock, Virginia Wesleyan College
“Serial Historiography: Toward an Ethics of Irreducible Elements in Narrative Histories”
Ben Bolling, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Aging at the Speed of Plot: The X-Men and Chronology”
Will Duffy, SUNY Buffalo
“Temporalities on Collision Course: Time, Knowledge and Temporal Critique in Damages”
Toni Pape, Université de Montréal
11.09 Conference A
Twentieth-Century Blake
Chair: Jon Gagas, Temple University
PAPER 1 OF 4: “William Blake’s Milton, Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis, and the End of the Epic Narrative”
Geoff Klock, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
14.05 Conference I
Classical Women in Modern Literature and Media
Chairs: Krishni Burns, SUNY Buffalo; William Duffy, SUNY Buffalo
PAPER 3 OF 4: “Heroes and Amazons in Y: the last man”
Luiz Guilherme, Universidade de São Paulo
15.08 Conference G
Reading the Postcolonial Other in Contemporary Film (Roundtable)
Chairs: Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook; Tracey Walters, SUNY Stony Brook
PAPER 5 OF 6: “Coming-of-Age and Cultural Revolution in Persepolis”
Rachel Graf, University of Washington
SUNDAY, APRIL 10
18.10 Regency E
What a ‘Man’’s Gotta Do: (Re)Defining Duty in Post-Feminist Action Films (Seminar)
Chair: Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College
PAPER 2 OF 6: “When Eleven Year-Olds Kick-Ass: Hit-Girl As Role Model Or Victim?”
Keith Friedlander, University of Ottawa
PAPER 5 OF 6: “‘I Won’t Feel a Thing’: Ironic Masculinity in Joss Whedon’s ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’”
Derek S. McGrath, SUNY Stony Brook
FRIDAY, APRIL 8
4.04 Conference B
Seeing Texts and Speaking Images: Visual-Verbal Dialogues in Modernity
Chair: Mary V. Marchand, Goucher College
PAPER 3 OF 3: “Text and Image in Partnership: Narrative Intersections in Jeff Smith’s Bone”
Emily Lauer, Hunter College
6.11 Conference JK
Adoption in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Roundtable)
Chair: Nicole Furlonge, Stuart Country Day School
PAPER 1 OF 3: “The Collapse of the Reunion Fantasy in Daniel Clowes’ Wilson: An Adoption Counter Narrative”
Genie Giaimo, Northeastern University
PAPER 2 OF 3: “What is for others nature/is for us culture: Constructions of Adoption on Heroes”
Nicole Furlonge, Stuart Country Day School
8.04 Conference B
Naming and Framing: Identity Construction in Children’s Literature and Culture
Chair: Julie Cassidy, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
PAPER 2 OF 4: “Which Powerpuff Girl Are You?: Unsettling Identity Types and Redefining Conventional Girlhood”
Lisa Hager, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha
9.09 Conference G
Captions, Slogans, and Stares (Oh, My!): Image as Argument in College Writing (Roundtable)
Chair: Peter Witkowsky, Mount Saint Mary College
PAPER 6 OF 6: “Our President, the Monster: Graphic Political Arguments in the Composition Classroom”
Angela Francis, CUNY Graduate Center
SATURDAY, 9 APRIL
11.07 Conference D
Serial Narratives and Temporality
Chair: Toni Pape, Université de Montréal
“‘Make It Repeatable’: Postmodern Seriality and the Repetition of What Is Yet to Come”
Stephen Hock, Virginia Wesleyan College
“Serial Historiography: Toward an Ethics of Irreducible Elements in Narrative Histories”
Ben Bolling, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Aging at the Speed of Plot: The X-Men and Chronology”
Will Duffy, SUNY Buffalo
“Temporalities on Collision Course: Time, Knowledge and Temporal Critique in Damages”
Toni Pape, Université de Montréal
11.09 Conference A
Twentieth-Century Blake
Chair: Jon Gagas, Temple University
PAPER 1 OF 4: “William Blake’s Milton, Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis, and the End of the Epic Narrative”
Geoff Klock, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
14.05 Conference I
Classical Women in Modern Literature and Media
Chairs: Krishni Burns, SUNY Buffalo; William Duffy, SUNY Buffalo
PAPER 3 OF 4: “Heroes and Amazons in Y: the last man”
Luiz Guilherme, Universidade de São Paulo
15.08 Conference G
Reading the Postcolonial Other in Contemporary Film (Roundtable)
Chairs: Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook; Tracey Walters, SUNY Stony Brook
PAPER 5 OF 6: “Coming-of-Age and Cultural Revolution in Persepolis”
Rachel Graf, University of Washington
SUNDAY, APRIL 10
18.10 Regency E
What a ‘Man’’s Gotta Do: (Re)Defining Duty in Post-Feminist Action Films (Seminar)
Chair: Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College
PAPER 2 OF 6: “When Eleven Year-Olds Kick-Ass: Hit-Girl As Role Model Or Victim?”
Keith Friedlander, University of Ottawa
PAPER 5 OF 6: “‘I Won’t Feel a Thing’: Ironic Masculinity in Joss Whedon’s ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’”
Derek S. McGrath, SUNY Stony Brook
Comics Sessions at ALA 2011
The 22nd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association will be held later this month at The Westin Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts, from 26-29 May 2011, and there are a number of sessions of interest. The full program and registration information can be accessed at: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/american_literature_assoc_2011.html.
THURSDAY, 26 MAY
Session 5-F Expanding the Working-Class Literary Canon: Claiming New Writers, Texts, and Genres (Marriott Tufts) Organized by the Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature
Chair: Paul Lauter, Trinity College
PAPER 4 OF 4. ―Sisterhood (and Brotherhood) of the Traveling Wallet: Coming to Class Consciousness through Comics and Graphic Novels
Sara Appel, Duke University
FRIDAY, 27 MAY
Session 9-M The ―small eye poet among the Moderns (Defender 7th Floor)
Organized by the E. E. Cummings Society
Chair: Millie Kidd, Mount St. Mary‘s College
PAPER 1 OF 3. ―" 'A Foreword to Krazy': E. E. Cummings' Love of the 'Lively Art' of Krazy Kat"
April Fallon, Kentucky State University
SATURDAY, 28 MAY
Session 17-A Problems and Possibilities in Defining American Comics: A Roundtable Discussion (Essex North Center) Organized by the American Society for Comics Studies
Chair: Derek Parker Royal, University of Nebraska at Kearney
1. Alfred Bendixen, Texas A&M University
2. Peter Coogan, Institute for Comics Studies
3. David Huxley, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), co-editor, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
4. M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College
5. Andrew Kunka, University of South Carolina at Sumter
6. Joan Ormrod, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), co-editor, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
7. Robert Weiner, Texas Tech University
8. Joseph Witek, Stetson University
Session 18-K Negotiations of Public and Private Trauma in Comic Art (Essex Center)
Chair: Charles Henebry, Boston University‘s College of General Studies
1. ―The Graphic Memoir in a State of Exception: Transformations of the Personal in Art Spiegelman‘s In the Shadow of No Towers
Lopamudra Basu, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2. ―Emerging from Comics: The Representation of Trauma in Alissa Torres‘s American Widow
Davida Pines, Boston University‘s College of General Studies
3. ―Scene and Obscene: Graphic Approaches to Child Sexual Abuse
Jane Tolmie, Queen‘s University, Kingston, Canada
Session 19-A Comic Books as Resistance Literature (Essex Center)
Organized by Jorge Santos Chair: Derek Parker Royal, University of Nebraska at Kearney
1. ―Re-Visioning Race: Transformations of the Passing Narrative in Incognegro (2008)
Martha J. Cutter, University of Connecticut, Editor of MELUS
2. ―Feminist and Counter-Apocalyptic Resistances in the Comic Art of Sam Kieth
Tof Eklund, Full Sail University
3. ―Killer Conventions: Sandman and Comics Resisting Academic Institutionalization
Daniel Anderson, Case Western Reserve University
4. ―Peter Parker: The Amazing Everyman and Marvel Comics‘ resistance to ―Patriot Act ideologies
Jorge Santos, University of Connecticut
Session 20-A Teaching the Graphic Novel (Essex Center)
Organized by the Contemporary Literature Society Chair, Karen Weekes, The Pennsylvania State University
1. ―The Spirit of '86
Jonathan W. Gray, John Jay College CUNY
2. ―Reading Theory with the Graphic Novel
Lisette Gibson, Capital University
3. ―I Kill Giants, or, I Might Kill Readers
Jennifer Mitchell, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center
Session 20-N Organizing Meeting of American Society for Comics Studies
(Empire Room 7th Floor)
THURSDAY, 26 MAY
Session 5-F Expanding the Working-Class Literary Canon: Claiming New Writers, Texts, and Genres (Marriott Tufts) Organized by the Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature
Chair: Paul Lauter, Trinity College
PAPER 4 OF 4. ―Sisterhood (and Brotherhood) of the Traveling Wallet: Coming to Class Consciousness through Comics and Graphic Novels
Sara Appel, Duke University
FRIDAY, 27 MAY
Session 9-M The ―small eye poet among the Moderns (Defender 7th Floor)
Organized by the E. E. Cummings Society
Chair: Millie Kidd, Mount St. Mary‘s College
PAPER 1 OF 3. ―" 'A Foreword to Krazy': E. E. Cummings' Love of the 'Lively Art' of Krazy Kat"
April Fallon, Kentucky State University
SATURDAY, 28 MAY
Session 17-A Problems and Possibilities in Defining American Comics: A Roundtable Discussion (Essex North Center) Organized by the American Society for Comics Studies
Chair: Derek Parker Royal, University of Nebraska at Kearney
1. Alfred Bendixen, Texas A&M University
2. Peter Coogan, Institute for Comics Studies
3. David Huxley, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), co-editor, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
4. M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College
5. Andrew Kunka, University of South Carolina at Sumter
6. Joan Ormrod, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), co-editor, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
7. Robert Weiner, Texas Tech University
8. Joseph Witek, Stetson University
Session 18-K Negotiations of Public and Private Trauma in Comic Art (Essex Center)
Chair: Charles Henebry, Boston University‘s College of General Studies
1. ―The Graphic Memoir in a State of Exception: Transformations of the Personal in Art Spiegelman‘s In the Shadow of No Towers
Lopamudra Basu, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2. ―Emerging from Comics: The Representation of Trauma in Alissa Torres‘s American Widow
Davida Pines, Boston University‘s College of General Studies
3. ―Scene and Obscene: Graphic Approaches to Child Sexual Abuse
Jane Tolmie, Queen‘s University, Kingston, Canada
Session 19-A Comic Books as Resistance Literature (Essex Center)
Organized by Jorge Santos Chair: Derek Parker Royal, University of Nebraska at Kearney
1. ―Re-Visioning Race: Transformations of the Passing Narrative in Incognegro (2008)
Martha J. Cutter, University of Connecticut, Editor of MELUS
2. ―Feminist and Counter-Apocalyptic Resistances in the Comic Art of Sam Kieth
Tof Eklund, Full Sail University
3. ―Killer Conventions: Sandman and Comics Resisting Academic Institutionalization
Daniel Anderson, Case Western Reserve University
4. ―Peter Parker: The Amazing Everyman and Marvel Comics‘ resistance to ―Patriot Act ideologies
Jorge Santos, University of Connecticut
Session 20-A Teaching the Graphic Novel (Essex Center)
Organized by the Contemporary Literature Society Chair, Karen Weekes, The Pennsylvania State University
1. ―The Spirit of '86
Jonathan W. Gray, John Jay College CUNY
2. ―Reading Theory with the Graphic Novel
Lisette Gibson, Capital University
3. ―I Kill Giants, or, I Might Kill Readers
Jennifer Mitchell, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center
Session 20-N Organizing Meeting of American Society for Comics Studies
(Empire Room 7th Floor)
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Comics Studies at PCA/ACA
There were a number of sessions of interest at last month's Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Association held in San Antonio, Texas, from 4/20-23/11. Unfortunately, I cannot copy and paste from the PDF version of the program to list these sessions. The complete program can be accessed at http://pcaaca.org/conference/conf_program.php. Most of the sessions are listed under the Comics and Comic Art Area and the Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture Area.
Monday, May 9, 2011
New Book: Classics and Comics
Edited by George Kovacs and C. W. Marshall
ISBN13: 9780199734191
ISBN10: 0199734194
Paperback, 288 pages
Oxford University Press, Jan 2011
Price: $29.95
Also available: Hardback
Description
Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At times the connection is cosmetic-as perhaps with Wonder Woman's Amazonian heritage-and at times it is almost irrelevant-as with Hercules' starfaring adventures in the 1982 Marvel miniseries. But all of these make implicit or explicit claims about the place of classics in modern literary culture.
Classics and Comics is the first book to explore the engagement of classics with the epitome of modern popular literature, the comic book. The volume collects sixteen articles, all specially commissioned for this volume, that look at how classical content is deployed in comics and reconfigured for a modern audience. It opens with a detailed historical introduction surveying the role of classical material in comics since the 1930s. Subsequent chapters cover a broad range of topics, including the incorporation of modern theories of myth into the creation and interpretation of comic books, the appropriation of characters from classical literature and myth, and the reconfiguration of motif into a modern literary medium. Among the well-known comics considered in the collection are Frank Miller's 300 and Sin City, DC Comics' Wonder Woman, Jack Kirby's The Eternals, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and examples of Japanese manga. The volume also includes an original 12-page "comics-essay," drawn and written by Eisner Award-winning Eric Shanower, creator of the graphic novel series Age of Bronze.
Table of Contents:
Preface, C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs
Acknowledgments
1. Comics and Classics: Establishing a Critical Frame, George Kovacs
Seeing the Past through Sequential Art
2. An Ancient Greek Graphic Novel (P. Oxy. XXII 2331), Gideon Nisbet
3. Sequential Narrative and the Shield of Achilles, Kyle Johnson
4. Declassicizing the classical in Japanese comics, Nicholas A. Theisen
5. Heroes Unlimited, Brett M. Rogers
Gods and Superheroes
6. The Furies, Wonder Woman, and Dream, C. W. Marshall
7. Coming up to Code: Ancient Divinities Revisited, Craig Dethloff
8. The Burden of War: From Homer to Oeming, R. Clinton Simms
9. 'Seven Thunders Utter Their Voices', Benjamin Stevens
Drawing (on) History
10. Hard-Boiled Hot Gates, Vincent Tomasso
11. Persians in Frank Miller's 300 and Greek vase-painting, Emily Fairey
12. A Dream of Augustus, Anise K. Strong
13. Francophone Romes: Antiquity in les Bandes Dessinees, Martin Dinter
The Desires of Troy
14. Twenty-First Century Troy, Eric Shanower
15. Sex and Love in Eric Shanower's Age of Bronze, Chiara Sulprizio
16. Heavy Metal Homer, Thomas E. Jenkins
A reading list of Classics in Comics
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
About the Author(s)
George Kovacs teaches at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.
C.W. Marshall is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Theatre at the University of British Columbia.
CFP Transitions 2: New Directions in Comics Studies (7/31/11)
Comica Symposium 2011 - Transitions 2: New Directions in Comics Studies
full name / name of organization:
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Arts
contact email:
transitions.symposium@gmail.com
Transitions 2 is a one day symposium devoted to promoting new research into comics in all their forms. Rather than restricting itself to a specific theme, the symposium will highlight research from postgraduate students and early career lecturers bringing together different perspectives and methodoogies, whether cultural, historical, or formal, thereby mapping new trends and providing a space for dialogue and further collaboration to emerge. By thinking about comics across different disciplines, the intention is to spark debate and address a wide spectrum of questions.
We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words for twenty minute papers on topics as diverse as, but not limited to:
international iterations: manga, bande dessinée, fumetti etc. – children’s comics – superheroes – non-fiction comics – the (im)materiality of comics – formalist approaches – cultural histories – adaptation/remediation – autographics –early comics – comic strips – small press – alternative comics/underground comix – comics narratologies – political comics – comics and cultural theory – audiences – comics and the archive – subjectivity in comics – graphic medicine – fan subcultures – comics as historiography – key creators...
Abstracts should be submitted by July 31 2011 to Tony, Paul and Zara at transitions.symposium@gmail.com
The first Transitions symposium was the successful opening event of Comica 2010. Dr. Roger Sabin, Reader in Popular Culture at Central St. Martins and author of Adult Comics and Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels, will once again act as respondent.
Transitions 2 will open Comica 2011, the London International Comics Festival in association with Birkbeck, University of London, Studies in Comics, and European Comic Art.
full name / name of organization:
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Arts
contact email:
transitions.symposium@gmail.com
Transitions 2 is a one day symposium devoted to promoting new research into comics in all their forms. Rather than restricting itself to a specific theme, the symposium will highlight research from postgraduate students and early career lecturers bringing together different perspectives and methodoogies, whether cultural, historical, or formal, thereby mapping new trends and providing a space for dialogue and further collaboration to emerge. By thinking about comics across different disciplines, the intention is to spark debate and address a wide spectrum of questions.
We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words for twenty minute papers on topics as diverse as, but not limited to:
international iterations: manga, bande dessinée, fumetti etc. – children’s comics – superheroes – non-fiction comics – the (im)materiality of comics – formalist approaches – cultural histories – adaptation/remediation – autographics –early comics – comic strips – small press – alternative comics/underground comix – comics narratologies – political comics – comics and cultural theory – audiences – comics and the archive – subjectivity in comics – graphic medicine – fan subcultures – comics as historiography – key creators...
Abstracts should be submitted by July 31 2011 to Tony, Paul and Zara at transitions.symposium@gmail.com
The first Transitions symposium was the successful opening event of Comica 2010. Dr. Roger Sabin, Reader in Popular Culture at Central St. Martins and author of Adult Comics and Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels, will once again act as respondent.
Transitions 2 will open Comica 2011, the London International Comics Festival in association with Birkbeck, University of London, Studies in Comics, and European Comic Art.
CFP International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels (5/31/11; Madrid 11/10-12/11)
International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels
full name / name of organization:
Instituto Franklin-UAH
contact email:
graphicnovel@institutofranklin.net
International Conference on Comics and Graphics Novels (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.
November 10th-12th, 2011)
The main objective of the conference is to bring together the largest number of specialists and researchers of comics (graphic novels, manga, BD, etc) in order to reflect on the study of this area.
CHARLES HATFIELD, JESSICA ABEL, ROGER SABIN and ANTONIO ALTARRIBA have confirmed their assistance as plenary speakers to this conference.
The theme is “Sites of visual and textual innovation” and it welcomes papers on (but not limited to):
-The origins of comics,
-Avant-garde and experimental works
-Biography and autobiography.
The languages of the conference will be English and Spanish.
Abstracts of approximately 250-500 words can be submitted to graphicnovel@institutofranklin.net . Deadline for acceptance: May, 31st 2011.
Conference will take place at Universidad de Alcalá in Spain.
For further information please visit: http://www.institutofranklin.net/en/conferences/graphic-novel
ORGANIZED BY:
Instituto Franklin - Universidad de Alcalá
full name / name of organization:
Instituto Franklin-UAH
contact email:
graphicnovel@institutofranklin.net
International Conference on Comics and Graphics Novels (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.
November 10th-12th, 2011)
The main objective of the conference is to bring together the largest number of specialists and researchers of comics (graphic novels, manga, BD, etc) in order to reflect on the study of this area.
CHARLES HATFIELD, JESSICA ABEL, ROGER SABIN and ANTONIO ALTARRIBA have confirmed their assistance as plenary speakers to this conference.
The theme is “Sites of visual and textual innovation” and it welcomes papers on (but not limited to):
-The origins of comics,
-Avant-garde and experimental works
-Biography and autobiography.
The languages of the conference will be English and Spanish.
Abstracts of approximately 250-500 words can be submitted to graphicnovel@institutofranklin.net . Deadline for acceptance: May, 31st 2011.
Conference will take place at Universidad de Alcalá in Spain.
For further information please visit: http://www.institutofranklin.net/en/conferences/graphic-novel
ORGANIZED BY:
Instituto Franklin - Universidad de Alcalá
CFP Lois Lane Collection (8/1/11)
Collection of Essays exploring Lois Lane (1st of August 2011)
full name / name of organization:
Nadine Farghaly, M.A., Mag. Phil.
contact email:
Lois.Lane@gmx.net
Collection of essays exploring the character Lois Lane from the DC Superman Universe.
Did you ever wonder about the woman behind Superman? The woman who supports him and without whom one of America’s favourite heroes would be unable to fulfil his destiny? Rightly so! And yet, there is no work that examines this central figure in the Superman universe.
BEING LOIS will be the first book that will focus on this female protagonists and her significance in popular culture.
Lois Lane first appeared in the issue # 1 of the in 1938 founded Superman universe. Since her creation Lois Lane’s character has developed even more than Superman’s. The woman next to the man of steel had to find and fight her way through multiple feministic waves, eight decades of changing ideologies and the constant reinvention of her character by other artists.
Starting with the graphic novels, over radio and Broadway appearances to various movies and TV shows, not to forget the multitude of culture references that are connected to her, Lois Lane never left the audiences’ sight. This well beloved character not only functions as a role model for millions of women and girls, but she also reflects women’s struggles within a mostly male dominated world.
This publication aims to examine Lois Lane in literature, art, and other media to questions concerning sexuality, gender, social change and feminism. It will provide an interdisciplinary stage for the development of innovative and creative research and examine this vital and complex female protagonist in all her various manifestations and cultural meanings.
Please send one page (around 500 words) abstracts to the following E-mail address Lois.Lane@gmx.net
And include the following information:
Writers submit a 1-page synopsis of their proposed chapter to us clearly stating:
[a] the research question
[b] the methodology
[c] the findings
[d] the bibliography (5 sources)
Deadline: 1st of August 2011
For questions please contact
Nadine Farghaly
Lois.Lane@gmx.net
Hope to hear from you soon.
Nadine
full name / name of organization:
Nadine Farghaly, M.A., Mag. Phil.
contact email:
Lois.Lane@gmx.net
Collection of essays exploring the character Lois Lane from the DC Superman Universe.
Did you ever wonder about the woman behind Superman? The woman who supports him and without whom one of America’s favourite heroes would be unable to fulfil his destiny? Rightly so! And yet, there is no work that examines this central figure in the Superman universe.
BEING LOIS will be the first book that will focus on this female protagonists and her significance in popular culture.
Lois Lane first appeared in the issue # 1 of the in 1938 founded Superman universe. Since her creation Lois Lane’s character has developed even more than Superman’s. The woman next to the man of steel had to find and fight her way through multiple feministic waves, eight decades of changing ideologies and the constant reinvention of her character by other artists.
Starting with the graphic novels, over radio and Broadway appearances to various movies and TV shows, not to forget the multitude of culture references that are connected to her, Lois Lane never left the audiences’ sight. This well beloved character not only functions as a role model for millions of women and girls, but she also reflects women’s struggles within a mostly male dominated world.
This publication aims to examine Lois Lane in literature, art, and other media to questions concerning sexuality, gender, social change and feminism. It will provide an interdisciplinary stage for the development of innovative and creative research and examine this vital and complex female protagonist in all her various manifestations and cultural meanings.
Please send one page (around 500 words) abstracts to the following E-mail address Lois.Lane@gmx.net
And include the following information:
Writers submit a 1-page synopsis of their proposed chapter to us clearly stating:
[a] the research question
[b] the methodology
[c] the findings
[d] the bibliography (5 sources)
Deadline: 1st of August 2011
For questions please contact
Nadine Farghaly
Lois.Lane@gmx.net
Hope to hear from you soon.
Nadine
Saturday, March 19, 2011
New Scholarship: Gerry Canavan on Kirkman's The Walking Dead
From the lastest issue of Extrapolation:
Canavan, Gerry. " 'We Are the Walking Dead': Race, Time, and Survival in Zombie Narrative." Extrapolation 51.3 (Fall 2010): 431-53.
Canavan, Gerry. " 'We Are the Walking Dead': Race, Time, and Survival in Zombie Narrative." Extrapolation 51.3 (Fall 2010): 431-53.
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