Transnational Comics Studies Workshop

Wednesday, October 26th, 2:30-4pm : "Jews and American Comics, with a Strong Personal note" by Dr. Paul Buhle, Brown University. The presentation will be followed by a discussion. Please email Elizabeth (Biz) Nijdam (enijdam@umich.edu) for reading materials. The event will take place in the  3rd Floor Conference Room of the MLB  (Room 3308). Beverages and light snacks will be provided. ---------------------------- Jews and American Comics, with a Strong Personal note," Paul Buhle's presentation reaches from giants of the funny pages a century ago, Rube Goldberg and Harry Hershfield (not forgetting the Yiddish comic strips of Samuel Zagat and Zuni Maud) to the Jewish-American comic art of today, Art Spiegelman, Peter Kuper, Lauren Weinstein and Joey Perr, and the on line "Bernie Sanders Comics" organized by the speaker. What are the key points of art and narrative, how have they evolved and what is their meaning within the larger world of comic...

Friday, September 23rd, 2:30-4pm : "The 1976 Project: A Year in Comic Book Publishing" by Dr. Dale Jacobs, English, University of Windsor. The presentation will be followed by a discussion. Please email Elizabeth (Biz) Nijdam (enijdam@umich.edu) for reading materials. The event will take place in the 3rd Floor Conference Room of the MLB (Room 3308). Beverages and light snacks will be provided. ---------------------------- The 1976 Project: A Year in Comic Book Publishing In this presentation, I will describe, in general terms, my current large project – an examination of comic book publishing in 1976. Such an examination exists at the confluence of a number of disciplines. First, the focus on a single year draws on methodologies from book history, notably Sydney Shep’s model of model of production, distribution and consumption that focuses on “the complex dynamic intercrossings between people (prosopography), places (placeography) and objects (bibliography).” T...