The Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference
Dartmouth College May 8, 9, 10th 2015

Friday May 8th
4:00 PM-5:00PM Center for Cartoon Studies Book Festival
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5:00 PM – 6:30PM A Conversation with James Sturm (Center for Cartoon Studies)
Haldeman 041      and Enrico Riley (Dartmouth) moderated by Brian Cremins ‘95
(Harper College) and Nhora Lucia Serrano (Harvard) co-sponsored by The Comics Studies Society

6:30-7:00PM Center for Cartoon Studies Book Festival
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Saturday May 9th
8:20 -8:40 AM Breakfast Snacks Available Outside of Haldeman 041

session one
8:45-10:15          Noah Berlatsky The Hooded Utilitarian: A roundtable with
Haldeman 041    Jeffrey Sharlet (Dartmouth) moderated by Laura Braunstein
(Dartmouth Libraries)

session two (a)  Pictures, Seriality, and Context
10:25-11:55 Haldeman 041

Michael A. Chaney (Dartmouth) “March after Ferguson:
Pessimism, Pictures, and Black Protest”
Stephen Roxburgh (University of New Hampshire) “‘In Simplicity
a Subtle Strangeness’: When a Comic is a Picture Book”
Christopher M. Kuipers (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) “Serial
Recovery: Resituating Jimmy Corrigan in The Acme Novelty Library”

session two (b) Crossing Comics Cultures 10:25-11:55 Haldeman 031

Annabelle Cone (Dartmouth) “Belgianness, the Post-Colonial and
the Exotic in Jijé’s Jerry Spring”
Derek S. McGrath (Stony Brook University) “Teaching Manga in
the Classroom, at Fan Conventions, and Online”
Forrest C. Helvie (Norwalk Community College) “Who Gets to be
Super?”
Annie Wang (Pittsburg State University) “Double Consciousness in American Born Chinese: Inspiration from the Monkey King”

12:15-1:25 Lunch (Participants free to make their own arrangements)

1:40-3:10Haldeman 041

session three On “Cartozia Tales” a discussion with the creators

“Influences and Confluences: Building a World Together” (Shawn Cheng)
“The Cartographic Surface of the Comics Page” (Isaac Cates, University of Vermont)
“Making It Up: the Narrative Challenge of Serialized Collaboration” (Mike Wenthe, Georgetown Day School)

session four (a) New Media! New Art?
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Farley Chery (Fitchburg State) “The Hidden Art Form: Secrets of 3
Dimensional Comics”
Geo Sipp (Kennesaw State University) “Illustration and
Animation in the Current and Future Marketplace”
Frederik Byrn Køhlert (Université de Montréal) “Autobiographical
Comics and the Problem of New Media”

3:20-4:50Haldeman 031Session four (b) “A Bloody Wave of Civil Disorder”: Conceptions of the Political and Identity In and Around Watchmen” moderated by
Matthew Cheney MALS ’07 (University of New Hampshire)

Colleen Gilbert (University of New Hampshire) “Not So Black and
White: Rorschach’s Mask as a Challenge to the Reader/Text
Relationship in Graphic Narratives”
Elizabeth Sheckler (University of New Hampshire) “Watching You
Watching Me: The Politics of the Gaze in The Watchmen and
Citizen 13660”
Sophia White (University of New Hampshire) “Inherently
Ambiguous: The Doomsday Clock, Investigations of Time, and
Comic Structure in Evaluating Morality in Alan Moore’s
Watchmen
Matthew Cheney (University of New Hampshire) “Frames of
Fascism: Aesthetics of Incertitude in V for Vendetta, Watchmen, and
From Hell”

Session five John Jennings (SUNY Buffalo) and the Black Kirby Project
5:00-6:30
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6:40-8:00 Banquet at the Hanover Inn

Sunday May 10th
8:20 -8:40 AM Breakfast Snacks Available Outside of Haldeman 041

session six Comics, Constructions, & Collections
8:45-10:15 Haldeman 041

Paul Robertson (Colby-Sawyer College) “Constructing Selfhood in
Depictions of Hell: Ancient Myth, Modern Comic”
Paul Young (Dartmouth College) “‘Make Mine Marienbad’: Alain
Resnais’s Comics Collections”
Joshua Lupkin (Tulane University) “Curatorship and conflict in
contemporary small press comics”

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Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference
What is the future of illustration studies?

What can comics scholars learn from animation studies and vice versa?

Do illustrated books or graphic novels resist the supposed obsolescence of the book? What do pictures want (now)?

These and related questions will be explored at the Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference at Dartmouth College to be held April 19 – 21 2013.

Scholars interested in the illustrated image in all of its mediated guises are invited to participate in this interdisciplinary conference. Nearly all illustrated or drawn ‘texts’ are eligible for consideration:

• comics and graphic novels
• cartoons and animated films
• illustrated books and picture books

And given the uniquely plenary nature of the conference, which brings together scholarship on static and moving illustrations, preference will be given to proposals that seek to bridge visual media.

POSSIBLE TOPICS MAY INCLUDE:
*Individual titles by prominent practitioners in the field
*Identity, subjectivity, authority, ideology or culture in or more type of illustration media
*The future of particular schools of criticism (psychoanalysis, critical race theory, phenomenology, Marxism, feminism, queer theory, post-colonialism, formalism, aesthetic theories, etc.) and one or more type of illustration media

Other questions which could become the germ for panels or papers:

• Can there be closure in animation?
• How do digital technologies impact the comics image?
• How do qualities of stasis, simultaneity, and sequence associated with the comics image apply to animation?
• In what ways do the word-image tensions of the illustrated book or picture book differ from those of a graphic novel?
• What is the phenomenology of the contemporary graphic novel, illustrated book, or animated film?
• How do these forms presage the future of the human or the humanities?

And finally, the location of the conference may also be a source of inspiration for prospective participants. Not only does Dartmouth College lie in close proximity to the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, but it is also the historic home of Theodore Geisel, Dr. Seuss, whose illustrated books continue to awe and amuse.

Interested participants may propose individual papers or panels. Individual papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Panels shall be ninety minutes long and should be comprised of three presenters and one (ideally separate) panel chair. Please send 300 word abstracts and a brief bio for each proposed paper no later than December 1, 2012.

Send all proposals and inquiries to
michael.chaney@dartmouth.edu

Michael A. Chaney
Associate Professor of English
Dartmouth College

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