Transnational Comics Studies Workshop

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