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The third of our three academic panels at MLA 2014, to be held in Chicago next week, Jan. 9-12! Session 768. Collaboration in Comics Sunday, 12 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m. Colorado, Sheraton Chicago Presiding: Charles Hatfield, California State Univ., Northridge Although comics is a dialogic form, current academic work on comics has remarkably little to say about the possibility of genuinely dialogical creation, that is, collaboration. The bulk of recent scholarly work on comics favors the concept of cartooning as a singular personal handwriting, i.e. an autographic trace, ignoring the historical importance and artistic potential of multi-authored comics. This panel seeks to illuminate this blindRead More →

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The second of our three academic panels at MLA 2014, to be held in Chicago next week, Jan. 9-12! Session 595. Comics and Fine Arts Saturday, 11 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m. Lincolnshire, Chicago Marriott Presiding: Hillary L. Chute, Univ. of Chicago Comics and the “fine arts” have a long history of both connection and divergence. In our current moment, comics are entering the space of the museum. For example, these past two years have brought significant shows by Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, and Daniel Clowes. At the same time, the often-tense relationship between comics and canonical art has drawn increased critical attention—as seen for instance inRead More →

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The first of our three academic panels at MLA 2014, to be held in Chicago next week, Jan. 9-12! Session 388. Transnational Comics Friday, 10 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m. Chicago X, Sheraton Chicago Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives and the Division on Literature and Other Arts Presiding: Anke K. Finger, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs; Nhora Lucia Serrano, California State Univ., Long Beach Spurred by the growth of the Internet and wordless communication, transnationalism has come to mean a new way of thinking about the relationships and interconnectivity among cultures, languages, arts, and peoples on the international stage. Comics and graphicRead More →

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The MLA Annual Convention for 2014 takes place in Chicago next week, from Jan. 9th to 12th! We of the Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives are pleased to help promote, in addition to our own programming, the following session organized and put on by our colleagues in the Division on Nineteenth-Century American Literature: 773. The Graphic Nineteenth Century Sunday, 12 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m. Michigan–Michigan State, Chicago Marriott Presiding: Augusta Rohrbach, Washington State Univ., Pullman “The Graphic 19th Century” reframes the print explosion of the era as a revolution in graphic narratives, treating the relationship between word and image as a distinct innovation ofRead More →