Transnational Comics Studies Workshop

Please join the Transnational Comics Studies Workshop for our second event. All are welcome! Professor Qiana Whitted (University of South Carolina) Monday, February 25th | Angell 3154 2:00PM Refreshments | 2:30-3:30PM Panel Presentation & Discussion “How to Read an EC Magazine" Using material from her forthcoming book on EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest, Qiana Whitted will discuss the 1950s comic book publisher's attempt to establish clear boundaries between “entertaining” and “educational” reading practices that were mindful of the public’s anxieties over how comic books could influence young readers. Essential to this effort was an editorial emphasis on how narrative captions, dialogue, and other words acted as signposts of meaning. If comics were indeed as hazardous as critics such as Sterling North, Dr. Frederic Wertham, and Senator Estes Kefauver feared, the social-protest comics might prove that EC’s writers could co...

Join us in welcoming artist Leela Corman to the University of Michigan. Acclaimed authro of Unterzakhn (2012) and co-founder of the Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville, Leela will present her forthcoming graphic novel, Victory Parade . Set during the Second World War in Brooklyn, New York and at the Allied liberation of Buchenwald, Victory Parade is a graphic novel is about women working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, war refugees, the trauma of witnessing death camps, and... amateur women’s wrestling! Leela will be involved in three events:  https://events.umich.edu/ event/50916 March 27th, 1:30-3:30pm - Workshop Ann Arbor District Library, Multi-purpose Room March 27th, 6:00-7:30pm - Sign ing Session  Vault of Midnight March 28th, 12-1:30pm - Lecture 3308 Modern Language Building The event is cosponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Department of History of Art, the Ann Arbor District Library, and it is host...

The event will be moderated by prof. Mikhail Krutikov (Slavic/Judaic) and prof. Maya Barzilai (Judaic/German). Anya Ulinich is the author of the novel Petropolis (2007) and the graphic novel Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel (2014), both published by Penguin Books. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Zoetrope: All-Story, n+1, and PEN America Journal. Ulinich attended the Art Institute of Chicago, holds an MFA from the University of California, Davis, and has taught at NYU and at the Gotham Writer’s Workshop. The event is co-sponsored by the CREES, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

We invite you at an amazing talk by comic book artist and activist: Paul Mavrides It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time February 2nd, 12:00pm, AADL Dowtown Artist PAUL MAVRIDES, long-time resident of San Francisco's Mission district, gives a talk on his peripatetic comics, graphics, paintings, and artworks exposing, exploring, and exploiting the cultural oddities, conspiratorial mysteries, and all-too-human fiascos of contemporary society. Mavrides is member of the ZAP Comix group, as well as a founding associate of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs’ SubGenius Foundation. His many collaborators have included Gilbert Shelton, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, film directors Alex Cox and Ron Mann, Survival Research Laboratories and The Residents, among others. Mavrides is a Witt Visiting Artist at the Stamps School of Art & Design J an 31-Feb 3, 2018. This event is co-sponsored by the Transnational Comics Studies Workshop. https://www.facebook.com/events/398163773963100 https://ev...

We hope you had a great Winter break! The TCSW welcomes you to another term of great activities and interesting events.  We invite you to a general meeting on  Thursday, January 25th at 1.30pm in 3308 Modern Language Building  to reconvene after the break and get ready for our Winter events.  We propose to read and discuss  L ena Finkle's Magic Barrel  by Anya Ulinich and a selection of works by   Paul Mavrides  in preparation to their visits in February. Here's the schedule for next events: Thursday, January 25 th , 1:30-3:00pm: Reading Group on Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich and The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers by Paul Mavrides. 3308 MLB. Friday, February 2 nd , 12:00-1:30pm: Paul Mavrides: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time . AADL Downtown. https://events.umich.edu/ event/48787 Thursday, February 15 th , 3:00-5:00pm: Anya Ulinich: Use What You Have: Art Practice and Survival. 3308 MLB. htt...

TODAY! 1-2:30pm, Monday, Nov. 27, Basement multi-purpose room of the Ann Arbor District Library (343 South 5th Ave.). Nate Powell, the National Book Award-winning graphic artist behind March, will give a public presentation about comics as a social justice medium, followed by an extended Q&A. Powell's work also includes You Don’t Say, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, The Silence of Our Friends, and The Year of the Beasts. 7-8:30pm, Nov. 27: Hill Auditorium (825 N. University Ave.) Marching Forward Keynote Talk by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell 4-6pm, Nov. 29, Weiser Hall, 10th Floor (500 Church St.) Marching Forward Research and Scholarship Symposium: In honor of Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell's visit to Ann Arbor, all are invited to engage with more than 30 local scholars whose work addresses the civil rights and social justice issues of today. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.