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's column: Panels in the Ivory Towers 06 de noviembre de 2009 5:03|2 comentarios
- This month's column: You've Got to Suffer If You Wanna Sing the Blues 09 de octubre de 2009 5:37
- New Column Today: "What's a Nice Medievalist Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" 04 de septiembre de 2009 4:15
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:
Fuente: 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?
Fuente: 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:
Fuente: 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.
Fuente: 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.
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Are you going to be in Chicago next weekend? If so, check out this tempting academic comics conference--wish I could go! http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.o
Fuente: www.internationalcomicartsforum.org
dedicated to the study of comics from around the world
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The Columbia Spectator--Columbia's student newspaper since 1877--examines the libraries' comics collection. A really nice piece of reportage, and not just because I'm in it! http://eye.columbiaspectator.com/article
Fuente: eye.columbiaspectator.com
The weekly features and arts magazine of The Columbia Daily Spectator.
This month--a little late, I confess--I look at some blues-inspired comics and ponder the place of the Blues in Columbia's music curriculum...
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hat tip to the Beat: a page of all the comics mentioned in Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent," with downloads where available. http://www.stwallskull.com/blog/?page_id
STWALLSKULL » HEY! KIDS! COMICS! The Dr. Fredric Wertham Memorial Funnybook Collection: The Comics F
Fuente: www.stwallskull.com
This week was Banned Books Week. I decided to celebrate by seeing how many of the comics featured in Fredric Wertham’s notorious book Seduction of the Innocent I could find floating out on the internet to share with the world in one convenient location.
Comic Adventures in Academia It was a real honor to be a judge for this year's Lulu Awards! I got to see such amazing stuff. Go check out the nominees, and be sure to vote!
Fuente: friendsoflulu.wordpress.com
The following is a list of the nominees for the 2009 Lulu Awards. The Lulu Awards recognizes the the people and projects that helped to open eyes and minds to the amazing comic and cartooning work by and/or about women.
Comic Adventures in Academia You'll note that the analysis is entirely focused on public library sales, not academic library sales. We are the great neglected market, my friends.
Funnies Business: Quantifying Library Penetration for Graphic Novels - 7/13/2009 3:25:00 PM - Publis
Fuente: www.publishersweekly.com
Did you ever wonder how many copies a graphic novel could sell in the library system? Figuring out what a graphic novel could do is a bit of a puzzle. Libraries are an up and coming market for graphic ...
Comic Adventures in Academia Already in the Columbia collection, I'm happy to say....
Fuente: www.nytimes.com
A comic-book tour of logic, math and madness, populated by Bertrand Russell and other superheroes of philosophy.
