Let's talk comics in the ivied halls, shall we? Tell me your stories!
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- An Evening with Dame Darcy
Butler Library, Room 523
El miércoles, 10 de junio a las 17:30 - Carousel
Dixon Place
El jueves, 30 de abril a las 20:00 - Graphic Novels and Academic Ac...
NYCC: Jacob Javits Center, room 1A18
El Viernes, 06 de febrero a las 19:00 - Eddie Campbell at McNally Robi...
Teahouse at McNally Robinson
El miércoles, 30 de julio a las 19:00 - MoCCA Art Festival 2008
MoCCA Gallery
El Sábado, 07 de junio a las 11:00 - Women in Comics
NY Comic-Con, room 1E07
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- This month at ComiXology: Al Jaffee comes to Columbia! 04 de diciembre de 2009 4:47
- This month's column: Panels in the Ivory Towers 06 de noviembre de 2009 5:03|4 comentarios
- This month's column: You've Got to Suffer If You Wanna Sing the Blues 09 de octubre de 2009 5:37
Comic Adventures in Academia Great Jeet Heer post! Money quote: "For [Bozell], it is okay to show gays, as long as you don’t show them as human beings."
sanseverything.wordpress.com
Brent Bozell is one of those right-wingers who has made a career of being indignant at every hour of the day, always on the lookout for an excuse to whine and complain. One of the things that upsets him is that some comic books feature openly gay characters. ...
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Another academic institution gets its starter comics collection....
Hat tip to Debra Nousek
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Gilbert Hernandez wins a 2009 United States Artists literary fellowship. Nice.
H/T to Heidi MacDonald @ TheBeat
latimesblogs.latimes.com
A consortium of arts funders, led by the Ford Foundation, presented the 2009 United States Artists fellowships at a ceremony last night in Santa Monica. The grants are substantial -- $50,000 -- and are unrestricted. Want a new laptop, more...
The really big news, of course, is that on Wednesday December 9,at 8 PM, Columbia University will host a conversation between Al Jaffee and Danny Fingeroth. I hope to see you there...
Comic Adventures in Academia This is a little confusing, but interesting. Confusing because the article mentions Spider-Man, but doesn't discuss any copyright issues--and, later on, says most of the comics included are government issue. But: interesting!
www.dailynebraskan.com
In addition to learning from Ernest Hemingway, students at UNL can look forward to learning from Spider-Man or the Flash, thanks to a project led by UNL assistant professor and media services librarian Richard Graham.
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If you get the chance, before November 28 (the Saturday after Thanksgiving), get to the New Century Artists gallery in Chelsea to see "When a Big Tree Falls." It's a fantastic exhibition of cartoons by Sikh comics artist Vishavjit Singh, telling the story of the Indian massacre of the Sikhs in November 1984, in the wa ...ke of Indira Gandhi's assassination.
See more about Singh's work at his website:
http://www.sikhtoons.com/
Beautiful, clean, simple, moving work.
www.newcenturyartists.org
This month, I discuss (again) why academia should be (and is) embracing comics...
Comic Adventures in Academia Today is the 50th anniversary of the appearance of Asterix & Obelix, and Google.fr is commemorating the occasion.
Comic Adventures in Academia Meiji University in Tokyo gets SERIOUS about comics:
www.nytimes.com
Meiji University in Tokyo has announced plans to open a library devoted to the art of manga, the Japanese graphic novel genre. According to Agence France-Presse, plans for the Tokyo International Manga ...
Comic Adventures in Academia Courtesy of The Beat, news of what sounds like a very fun exhibit at the University of Oregon. Anyone on the left coast want to share some impressions of it?
www.oregonlive.com
EUGENE -- Ben Saunders is all too familiar with the stereotypes associated with comics and superheroes.There's the moldy oldie: Comics are "funny books," suitable only for kids.The next version: Comics are trivial because they're only about superheroes, i.e., men in tights. ...
Comic Adventures in Academia Courtesy of friend-of-comics Sarah G. W., this nice write up from PWCW on the University Press of Mississippi, and their comics studies series:
www.publishersweekly.com
If the last century saw the state of Mississippi as the cradle of the blues, this century may see the region’s University Press of Mississippi set the course for modern comics scholarship.
Comic Adventures in Academia Fantastic news! If you've not yet read Stitches, by the way: run, don't walk to a bookstore. It's simply marvellous.
pwbeat.publishersweekly.com
David Small’s acclaimed graphic novel memoir, STITCHES, has been nominated for a National Book Award in the literature for young people category.
