Transnational Comics Studies Workshop

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.

Dear friends and colleagues, After the amazing discussion we had yesterday on the magazine Resist!, get ready for our last event of the Fall Term. The Transnational Comics Studies Workshop invites you to a lecture and workshop with Simone Castaldi, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at Hofstra University. A Walk Within Four Panels. A Methodological Approach to Teaching Italian Comics Lecture: Thursday, November 30th, 3-5pm Workshop: Friday, December 1st, 10-12pm 3308 Modern Language Building This talk, covering the first 100 years of the history of Italian comics, focuses on four individual panels from four pivotal moments in the history of the medium in Italy: its infancy at the turn of the 20th century; the post-economic boom reconfiguration of the medium for an adult audience with the so-called "fumetti neri" (crime comics); the late-1960s birth of the auteur school and of a more literate and sophisticated readership; and the cannibalization ...

Der friends and colleagues, After the amazing talk and workshop given by Art Spiegelman on Nov. 9th, be ready for our next meeting on November 16th, at 1:00-2:30pm in the Shapiro Design Lab on the ground floor of the Shapiro Undergraduate Library. Our workshop will discuss the protest magazine Resist! , a free print publication of political comics and graphics where the slogan, "Women's voices will be heard," can come true. It was started after the November 2016 election by ​Nadja Sp iegelman and Françoise Mouly, and its second issue came out this summer. Please, join us, share the invite with other friends and colleagues, and don't forget that lunch and coffee will be provided! http://www.resistsubmission.com/

Dear friends and colleagues, Thursday, Oct. 26th, at 1-2:30pm in the Shapiro Design Lab we will workshop Hanah Stiverson's paper Radical World-Making: How Creator Ownership Makes Space For Othered Bodies . Hanah Stiverson is a PhD student at the University of Michigan in the department of American Culture who conducts fantastic research on comic studies, visual cultures, and race and gender studies. Her paper examines three ongoing works by Image Comics, which are either written or illustrated by female creators, and which reimagine notions of gender and race in fantasy realms. Working with Saga, co-created by Fiona Staples, Bitch Planet, created by Kelly Sue DeConnick, and Monstress, created by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, Hanah considers ways in which world-making in comics allows for new meanings in racialized and gendered bodies. In order to facilitate the discussion, we ask attenders to read the first issues of the above mentioned series. Our library holds multiple v...

The Transnational Comics Studies Workshop would like to welcome everyone back! We have an exciting lineup of guests this academic year - and will be adding a few more - so please check out our schedule of events and stay tuned for more information!

Please join the  Transnational   Comics   Studi es  Workshop  on  Wednesday, January 25th  from  2:30-4pm  in the   3rd   floor   Conference   Room  of the  MLB  ( Room  3308)  for a presentation on using  comics in the classroom  by cartoonist and educator  Jerzy Drozd. Comic Books: A Pathway to Learning   As teachers find a variety of uses for comics, graphic novels and manga in the classroom, they need to understand the complex thinking and deep skills required to both read and create them. In this workshop, work with cartoonist Jerzy Drozd to explore the convergence of literary and artistic disciplines inherent in comics and see how comics can be a powerful way to build reading comprehension skills, such as prediction, inference, and fluency. Copies of Drodz 64-page teaching kit will be distributed at the event.  It contains example lesson plans for par...