The Old New Media of Comics Art: Comics and Graphic Novels in the 21st Century

This showed up in my email this a.m., sounds pretty cool!

Damian Duffy, Doctoral candidate, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Illinois, andJohn Jennings, Associate Professor, Graphic Design, Illinois, will give a public lecture,"The Old New Media of Comics Art: Comics and Graphic Novels in the 21st Century,"on Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 4:00 PM, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana.

What is the art form found in comic books, comic strips, graphic novels and manga?
Comics scholars, curators and graphic novelists John Jennings and Damian Duffy are here to provide the answer, or at least explain the question. They will discuss the history and future of the comics medium in the contexts of new media education and museum exhibition. This presentation will be informed by their own work using graphic novels to critique racial representation in mass media, creating virtual reality comics, and curating the expansive Fall 2008 Krannert Art Museum exhibitionOut of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics.

This presentation is held in anticipation of the 2009-2010CAS Initiative on Interpreting Technoscience: Explorations in Identity, Culture and Democracy. Rayvon Fouche has been named CAS Resident Associate for this initiative.

For further information, please visit http://www.cas.uiuc.edu/presentations.php.

All CAS lectures are free and open to the public.