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ICAF 2014 at OSU!

September 30, 2014 / / Comments Off on ICAF 2014 at OSU!

November 13-15, 2014

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We are so excited to announce that The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will be this year’s host for the International Comic Arts Forum!

Since its inception at Georgetown University in 1995, ICAF has been held nearly every year at prestigious universities and centers for comics scholarship throughout the country. This November, marking one-year exactly since our Grand Opening Festival of Cartoon Art, ICAF will grace the auditoriums and lecture halls of The Ohio State University for their three day, star-studded conference weekend.

All panels and lectures are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
To find out more about hotel rooms and registering as an academic, visit here: http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.org/2014-conference-info.html

ICAF 2014 FULL SCHEDULE

Thursday November 13th

 

9:00 AM: Welcome from Jenny Robb, Curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

9:15 AM: Opening Remarks: José Alaniz, ICAF Executive Committee Chair

9:30 – 10:30 AM: Plenary Speaker: Bart Beaty

10:30 AM: Coffee Break 

11:00 AM – 12:45 PM: Concurrent Panel Session One

1A: Comics Form and Fine Art
Moderator: Bill Kartalopoulos

  • “Huntsman Descending a Staircase with His Dog”: Cartooning as Method in American Modern Art 1910-1920, Ben Owen, Ohio State University
  • Quasi-­Comic Elements in the Art of Paul Klee, Adrielle Anna Mitchell, Nazareth College
  • Third Stream Art: William Steig’s Symbolic Drawings, Andrei Molotiu, Indiana University
  • Andy Warhol’s Grids: Comicity and The Comics Art World, Colin Beineke, University of Missouri


1B: Resolving Cultural Identity in Comics
Moderator: José Alaniz

  • Aleksandar Zograf’s Polovni Svet and the Invention of a Post-­‐Yugoslavian Identity, Paul Morton, University of Washington
  • Post-unification German Comics and the Legacy of East German Culture, Elizabeth Nijdam, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Into the Present, by Way of a Non-Existent Past: Trillo, Breccia, and Alvar Mayor, Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Georgia State University
  • Propaganda and memory in Li Kunwu and Philippe Ôtié’s graphic novel A Chinese Life, Nick Stember, University of British Columbia


12:45-2:15 PM: Lunch Break

Optional behind the scenes tour of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum for registered presenters and guests (sign-up instructions to be provided)

2:15 – 3:15 PM:  Concurrent Panel Session Two

2A: Fictional Faultlines
Moderator: Rebecca Wanzo

  • A Cosmonaut in Palomar: Seeing, Showing, and Imagining In Gilbert Hernandez’s Heartbreak Soup, Josh Kopin, University of Texas At Austin
  • “The Death of Mike Albergo: Ideology, Culture, and The ‘Nam“, Robert Loss, Columbus College of Art and Design


2B: Breaking Boundaries Across Media Forms
Moderator: Brittany Tullis

  • Webcomics as Collaborative Spaces: The Practice of Guest Authorship, Leah Misemer, University of Wisconsin Madison
  • Comics between Art and the Underground in India, Jeremy Stoll, Chicago, IL


3:15  – 4:45 PM: Comics and Institutions Roundtable 

Participants: Ben Saunders, Jenny Robb, Charles Hatfield, Jared Gardner and Toph Marshall

5:00-6:30: Reception at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

6:30 PM: Dinner Break 

8:00-9:30 PM: Justin Green and Carol Tyler in conversation 

Friday November 14th

 

9:00 – 10:30 AM: Concurrent Panel Session 

3A: “Good” and “Bad” Comics
Moderator: Mark Heimermann

  • “If Not Actually Evil… Vulgarizing”: Contextualizing the Moral Panic Around Comics Circa 1909, Tad Suiter, George Mason University
  • “Always Gettin’ in Trouble”: The Li’l Tomboy Comic Book Series, the Good Female Consumer, and the 1950s Bad Girl, Michelle Ann Abate, Ohio State University
  • “Slaughtering Innocence: the 1950s Comic Book Controversy and the Crisis in the Meanings of Childhood”, Andrew O’Malley, Ryerson University


3B: Metafiction and Archival Practice in Comics
Moderator: José Alaniz

  • (Re)Posting the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition: Postcards and Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Nhora Lucía Serrano, Harvard University
  • One Day at a Time: Fabula, Syuzhet, and the Storyworld in For Better or For Worse, Susan Kirtley, Portland State University
  • Metafictional archive: Mise en Abîme and Identity in Miguelanxo Prado’s Ardalén (2012), Arturo Meijide Lapido, Ambrose University


10:30AM: Coffee Break

11:00 AM – 12:45 PM: Concurrent Panel Session 

4A: Examining Underground Comix
Moderator: Toph Marshall

  • From the Georgia Straight to Tijuana: The Changing “Adventures” of Rand Holmes’s Harold Hedd, Sean Rogers, York University, Canada
  • “My Fantastic Inimitable Mental Machinations!”: Richard “Grass” Green’s Minicomics and African American Comedy, Brian Cremins, Harper College
  • Comics Come Out: Lesbian Feminism, Gay Liberation and Underground Comix, Corey K. Creekmur, University of Iowa


4B: Positioning Comics Within Contested Cultural Spheres
Moderator: Bill Kartalopoulos

  • “Advantages in Cartoon and Caricature Work:” Comics and the Art World in Cleveland (1930-­‐1938), Brad Ricca, Case Western Reserve University
  • [Before] Manga Theory: The Manga Emaki (Manga Handscrolls) of Okamoto Ippei et al., Nicholas Theisen, Iowa City
  • Persepolis without comics: Satrapi in Critical Context,  Marc Singer, Howard University
  • The Ambivalent Recognition of the Exhibition: Comic Exhibitions in France in the 2000’s, Jean-Matthieu Méon, Université de Lorraine


12:45 PM: Lunch Break

Optional behind the scenes tour of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum for registered presenters and guests (sign-up instructions to be provided)

2:00 – 3:00PM: The John Lent Award Lecture

Picturing the Unspeakable in Global Comics
Jennifer Anderson Bliss, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3:00 – 4:00 PM: Phoebe Gloeckner Spotlight
Moderator: Brittany Tullis

4:30-5:30 PM:  Hanneriina Moisseinen Presentation 
Moderator: Bill Kartalopoulos

5:30 PM: Dinner Break

7:30-9 PM: Laulu: Documentary screening with Hanneriina Moisseinen

 

Saturday, November 15th

 


9:00-10:30 AM: Concurrent Panel Session Five

5A: Comics’ Active Formal Elements
Moderator: Qiana Whitted

  • Perceptual Systems and the Comic Book Art of Geometrizing the Story, Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University
  • Skewing Text to Images: Asian Language Orthography in Asian American Comics, Shan Mu Zhao, University of Southern California
  • Conversations in Comic Strip Swedish: The Case for Applying Conversation Analysis to Comic Strip Data, Kristy Beers Fägersten, Södertörn University, Sweden


5B: Representing the Body
Moderator: José Alaniz 

  • Locas Tambien: Performing Disidentifications in Love and Rockets, Rachel Miller, Ohio State University
  • Staring at Comics: Disability and Visuality in Al Davison’s The Spiral Cage, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, University of Montreal
  • The “Ravaged Body” as Carrier of Cultural Memory in the Petit Polio Bandes Dessinées of Farid Boudjellal, Margaret C. Flinn, Ohio State University


10:30 AM: Coffee break

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Concurrent Panel Session Six

6A: Ideologies of the Monstrous
Moderator: Mark Heimermann

  • The Post-Apocalypse and Contemporary Comics, Kathryn Manis, University of New Mexico
  • Monstrous Gynophobia: Male Fears of a Female Monster in Bernie Wrightson and Bruce Jones’ “Jenifer”, Joshua Zerl, Eugene, OR.
  • The Problem of Appearance in Goya’s Los Capichos, and Mignola’s Hellboy, Scott Bukatman, Stanford University


6B: Hidden Worlds of Early Comics
Moderator: Brannon Costello

  • Daumier’s Deadline: Expedited Expressiveness and the Franco-Belgian Cartooning Tradition, David Allan Duncan, Savannah College of Art and Design
  • The National Taste: Ally Sloper, Escape Magazine and British Comics, Nick Robinette, Quinnipiac University
  • The Hidden World of Jimmy Swinnerton, Peter Sattler, Lakeland College


12:30 PM: Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:30 PM: Dash Shaw Presentation

4:00 – 5:30 PM: Jeff Smith in Conversation with Tom Spurgeon

5:30: Dinner Break

7:00 PM: March Presentation with Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, followed by performance by Sweet Honey in the Rock

Closing Remarks: Jose Alaniz

 

Hope to see you there! For more information contact cartoons@osu.edu

UPCOMING EXHIBITS: Civil Rights Anniversary & Will Eisner Retrospective

July 16, 2014 / / Comments Off on UPCOMING EXHIBITS: Civil Rights Anniversary & Will Eisner Retrospective

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Contact: Caitlin McGurk
The Ohio State University
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
1813 N. High Street
Columbus OH 43210-1343
614-292-0538
cartoons@osu.edu

For Immediate Release: July 16, 2014

Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Announces Two New Exhibitions:

The Long March: Civil Rights in Cartoons and Comics
&
Will Eisner: 75 Years of Graphic Storytelling

August 16 – November 30, 2014

 

The Long March: Civil Rights in Cartoons and Comics

"The Puppeteer", Sam Milai, March 29, 1969. From the Sam Milai Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Carton Library & Museum

The Sam Milai Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

Karl Hubenthal. In the March, March 26, 1965. Karl Hubenthal Collection.

Karl Hubenthal. In the March, March 26, 1965. Karl Hubenthal Collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) marks the observance of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with The Long March: Civil Rights in Cartoons and Comics, August 16 –  November 30, 2014.

The exhibit presents the story of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact through original editorial cartoons, comic strips, and comic books drawn from the BICLM’s collections. It will also include artwork drawn by Nate Powell for March, Congressman John Lewis’s graphic memoir, a New York Times bestseller co-written by Andrew Aydin.  March tells the story of Lewis’s experiences as a leader and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.  The exhibit, curated by BICLM Curator Jenny E. Robb and Professor of English & Film Studies Jared Gardner, explores the tensions, struggles, and victories from multiple perspectives, including mainstream daily newspapers and the black press.

The public is invited to a free curator’s program on the opening day, August 16, with Jared Gardner, followed by a book signing in the BICLM  lobby with the illustrator of March,  Nate Powell.

This exhibition is organized in conjunction with Remembering the Act: Archival Reflections on Civil Rights, on display at the Thompson Library Gallery from September 15, 2014 – January 4, 2015.

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Join in celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act on Monday, September 15, for an evening with Congressman John Lewis, Nate Powell, and Andrew Aydin, discussing the Civil Rights Movement and the experience of telling Congressman Lewis’s story in the graphic memoir March.  Details will be announced soon.  This event is co-sponsored by the University Libraries, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of Ohio, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Office of Student Life, the Moritz College of Law, the Hale Black Cultural Center, the Kirwan Institute, the Barnett Center for Arts and Enterprise, the College of Social Work, the Department of English, the History Department, and the Department of African American and African Studies.

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Will Eisner: 75 Years of Graphic Storytelling

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The Will Eisner Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. THE SPIRIT and WILL EISNER are Registered Trademarks of Will Eisner Studios, Inc. Reprinted with permission.

It is nearly impossible to discuss the history of American comics without mentioning the name Will Eisner.  On August 16, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will open a new exhibit entitled Will Eisner: 75 Years of Graphic Storytelling, highlighting works from the library’s Will Eisner collection of art and archives.  The show will feature original art from some of Eisner’s greatest works including The Spirit, Contract With God, Dropsie Avenue, Last Day in Vietnam, and The Plot, as well as rarely-seen selections from his student days, his early work as a commercial artist, and his comics for the military.

As a key figure in the birth of the comics industry in the 1930s and the rise of the graphic novel in the 1980s, Eisner influenced—directly and indirectly—everyone involved with graphic storytelling, as an artist, an editor, an entrepreneur and an educator. This exhibit, curated by Caitlin McGurk and Jared Gardner, explores the range of Eisner’s work spanning nearly eight decades and documents his impact on the development of comics over the past century.

In celebration of this exhibit, the public is invited to a free presentation by Columbus cartoonist and creator of the bestselling graphic novel Bone, Jeff Smith on Thursday, October 30 at 7p.m.  Smith will discuss the legacy and impact of Will Eisner’s life and career in the Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall on the second floor of the BICLM.

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The Will Eisner Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. THE SPIRIT and WILL EISNER are Registered Trademarks of Will Eisner Studios, Inc. Reprinted with permission.

 


About the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum:  The BICLM, Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43210, is one of The Ohio State University Libraries’ special collections. Its primary mission is to develop a comprehensive research collection of materials documenting American printed cartoon art (editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, sports cartoons, and magazine cartoons) and to provide access to the collections.  The BICLM recently moved into its newly-renovated 30,000 sq. ft. facility that includes a museum with three exhibition galleries, a reading room for researchers and a state-of-the-art collections storage space.   The library reading room is open Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  The museum is open Tuesday-Sunday from 1 – 5 p.m.

See http://cartoons.osu.edu/ for further information or call (614) 292-0538

 

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