Thursday, April 5, 12:30–2:00 p.m. - Boston University

176  Comic Art & Comics I:

Historical Perspectives

Chair:  Chris York, Pine Technical College

Newspaper Coverage of the Anti-Comic-Book Movement of 1948-1954

Jonathan Judy, Kent State University

Black Creators of the Underground Comix Era:  The Forgotten Kings

William H. Foster III, Comic Book Historian

“Great Afrika was great we are still”:  Wakanda and the Rhetoric of Ethiopianism

Randy Duncan, Henderson State University

The Native American in Cold War America:  The Peculiar Case of Turok, Son of Stone

Chris York

Thursday, April 5, 4:30–6:00 p.m. - Boston University

268  Comic Art & Comics II:

Comics, Commentary, & Politics

Chair:  Brian Curtis, Nashville State Community College

John Miller Baer:  Congressman-Cartoonist

Jon C. Gordon,  The University of Findlay

What Happened to the Walden Commune?: Garry Trudeau and the State of the Liberal Intellectual Tradition at the Start of the Twenty-First Century 

Kerry Soper, Brigham Young University

Superheroes Hate Our Freedom:  Captain America and Other Subversive Superheroes Pre- And Post 9/11

Brian Curtis

Thursday, April 5, 6:30–8:00 p.m. - Boston University

315  Comic Art & Comics III:

Theories on Comics

Chair:  Charles Tedder, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Towards a Broader Understanding of Literacy:  Seeing the Meaning in Comics and Graphic Novels

Janice Biebrich, John Pritchard School

The Grammar of Comics

Neil Cohn, Tufts University

Graphic Narratives in the Age of Digital Reproduction:  Towards a Theoretical Study of Webcomics

Ernesto Priego, University College London

Detecting Theory and Rhetoric in the Work of Scott McCloud

Charles Tedder

Friday, April 6, 4:30–6:00 p.m. - New Hampshire

562  Comic Art & Comics IV: 

Metaphors and Stereotypes

Chair:  Charles Coletta, Bowling Green State University

Walt & Skeezix:  A Different Kind of Dynamic Duo in Gasoline Alley, 1921-1924

Charles Coletta

Reasserting the X-Men’s Racial Metaphor in X-Men:  Deadly Genesis

Joseph J. Darowski, Michigan State University

The Hybrid Superhero:  Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Black Panther

Shelton Weech, Brigham Young University

God or Pussy?:  Image’s Battle Pope and the Superhero Genre’s Tension Between Masculinity and Christian Religious Ideals

Matthew Diebler, Bowling Green State University

Friday, April 6, 6:30–8:00 p.m. - New Hampshire

606  Comic Art & Comics V: 

Area Meeting

Chair:  Nicole Freim, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Please join us for a discussion of area matters, announcemments of other academic events about comics, and a very special presentation.

Friday, April 6, 8:15–9:45 p.m. - New Hampshire

633  Comic Art & Comics VI:

Special Presentation: The Institute for Korvac Studies

Moderator:  Jason Tondro

A special discussion on the current state of Korvac scholarship and special discussions led by the most noted Korvac-ologists in the country.

Discussants: Marc Singer, Jason Tondro, Gene Kannenberg, Jr.

Saturday, April 7, 8:00–9:30 a.m. - New Hampshire

658  European Literature & Culture and Comic Art & Comics VII:

Constructing and Deconstructing History and Literature in French Bande Dessinée

Chair:  Elisabeth Donato, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

France/Algeria:  The Return of the Repressed Through Bande Dessinée

Ann Miller, University of Leicester

Vichy’s Comic Concerns:  Pétain and Bande Desssinée

Joel Vessels, Nassau Community College

The Irreverent Reframing of Classical French Literature?: An Analysis of Two Bandes Dessinées by Marcel Gotlib and Claire Bretécher

Elisabeth Donato

Saturday, April 7, 10:00–11:30 a.m. - New Hampshire

700  Comic Art & Comics VIII:

Style and Content

Chair:  A. David Lewis, Boston University

Bionic Barry:  The Power and Innovation That Reside within Lynda Barry’s Work

Miriam Harris, Unitec New Zealand

The Unspeakable Truth:  Will Eisner’s A Contract With God

Kelly Meyer, College of Saint Rose

The Exegesis of Douglas Rushkoff’s Testament

A. David Lewis

Lynda Barry:  Building Bridges through Text and Image

Susan Kirtley, University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Saturday, April 7, 12:30–2:00 p.m. - New Hampshire

743  Comic Art & Comics IX:

Individuals and Identities

Chair:  Meisha Rosenberg, College of Saint Rose

The Superhero Loves the Costume:  The Essential Nature of the Costume to Identity in the Symbolic World

Louis Sylvester, Oklahoma State University

“She’s in me now. We’re one”:  The X-Identity of Rogue

Rebecca Dawson,  Bowling Green State University

Spenser’s Secret Identities:  Artegall and Talus the Yron Man

Jason Tondro, University of California Riverside

“The Strangest Secret and the Mind of Man”: Phoebe Gloeckner's Feminist Diary of a Teenage Girl

Meisha Rosenberg

Saturday, April 7, 2:30–4:00 p.m. - New Hampshire

780  Comic Art & Comics X:

The Role of Superheroes

Chair:  Bobby Kuechenmeister, Texas A&M University

How Spider-man Teaches Hamlet

Taylor Larson

The One-Dimensional Spider-Man:  The Comic Book Superhero as Ideological Apparatus

Jeff Geers, Bowling Green State University (Ohio)

Superman’s America:  History, Reception, and Imperiex

Bobby Kuechenmeister

Michael Moore in Tights:  An Examination of the Possibilities of Progressive Superheroes

Matthew Pustz, Wakefield, Massachusetts

 
Saturday, April 7, 4:30–6:00 p.m. - New Hampshire

797  Comic Arts & Comics XI:

Comics & Other Media

Chair:  Nicole Freim, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Prose and Cons:  Ted Rall’s To Afghanistan and Back

Amy Kiste Nyberg, Seton Hall University

Continued Next Issue:  From Serial Narrative to Graphic Novel

Gene Kannenberg, Jr.

Framed:  The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Filmic Approaches to Visual Style

Mark C. Rogers, Walsh University

V for Vague Verisimilitude

Nicole Freim