My friends Barbara and Bart are presenting papers.
Another New Narrative: Comics in Literature, Film, and Art
An interdisciplinary conference 9-10 May 2009
Sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Toronto and in association with the Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Saturday 9 May
All panels will take place within the Metro Central Reference Library, in the “learning centre.” There will be signage!
9:00 onward: pick-up your name tag and a program
Need help? Andrew Lesk andrew.lesk@utoronto.ca 416-841-8985
Panel 1 Contextual Shifts 9:15 – 10:30
Chair: Andrew Lesk (Toronto)
Beaty, Bart (Calgary)
“Comics Off the Page: Towards a Theory of Performance in the Comics World”
Shaviro, Steven (Wayne State)
“Iron Man as Corporate Fantasy”
Willmott, Glenn (Queen’s)
“Comics, Economy, Ecology: Winsor McCay and Junko Mizuno.”
Panel 2 The Media is the Message 10:30 – 12:15
Chair: Marni Stanley (Vancouver Island)
Coppin, Peter (Toronto)
“What Comics and Geometric Proofs have in Common”
Hains, David (Toronto)
“Fractal Literature: What Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home has in Common with Broccoli and Stock Charts”
O’Flynn, Siobhan (Toronto)
“Interactive Graphic Novels: Redefining the Form (again!)”
Postema, Barbara (Michigan State)
“Mind the Gap: Absence as Narrative Function in Comics”
Panel 3 Closer Looks 12:15 – 1:30
Chair: Glenn Willmott (Queen’s)
Hornick, Edward (Kenyon – New Orleans)
“Little Otter Lost: Understanding Achewood through its Kid”
Stanley, Marni (Vancouver Island)
“Out of Line: Closets and Consequences in Cruse's Stuck Rubber Baby”
Ziegler, Kevin (Waterloo)
“‘Piece It All Together and It’s Barely a Quarter of the Puzzle’: Seth’s It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken and Alternative Autobiographical Comics”
Panel 4 Presenting…. 1:30 – 2:30
An informal hour with authors and their works.
Jeet Heer & Ken Worcester on A Comics Studies Reader
and
David Collier & Robert Hamilton on David Collier
Panel 5 Confluence and Confusion 2:30 – 3:45
Chair: Siobahan O’Flynn (Toronto)
Cedeira Serantes, Lucia (Western)
“‘I am only really looking for a story’: Selection Practices of Four Comic Book Readers”
Rogers, Sean (York)
“‘Out of the Wild Blue Yellow Yonder’: Comic Books and Confusion in Artists and Models”
Sinervo, Kalervo (Simon Fraser)
“Gods with Teeth: Grant Morrison and the God/Author/Author/God Complex
Panel 6 Creative Bursts 3:45 – 5
Chair: Steven Shaviro (Wayne State)
Jeffries, Dru (Concordia)
“Things Ain’t Gonna Be De Same From Now On”: Dime Novels, Dick Tracy and the Emergence of the Avenger Detective.”
Sakkos, Vasileios (London)
“Transubstantiation on The Comic Book Page: Image made Flesh, Sanctified and Defiled in Ink and Pulp.”
Yao, Christine (Dalhousie)
“Ethical Questions and Literary Merit: Reverse Discourses in Fredric Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent”
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