Schedule

Comics & Cartoon History:
New Archives, Methods, and Discoveries

In honor of the 10th Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival, we are hosting the 3rd CXC Scholarly symposium in Sullivant Hall, in the Barnett Center's Collaboratory (Sullivant 141). More details on how to find us can be found on the "Where Are We?" page.

Other CXC events will be taking place on Thursday and Friday in Sullivant Hall on the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum side of the building, in the Will Eisner Seminar Room (Sullivant 205).
Technology gods permitting, we will be live streaming the symposium via zoom for those who can not join in person:
  • Thursday September 26

    10:00-11:45

    • Alexander Ponomareff (University of South Florida), “Simple, Legible. and Clear: Comics Lettering and the Demand for Clarity” 
    • Mark Minett (University of South Carolina) Quantifying the Poetics of the Page: Formal Design in Early 1940s American Adventure Comic Books
    • Adrienne Resha (University of Virginia), “Coloring, Color Printing, and Critical Color Theory”
    • Michelle Ann Abate (Ohio State University), “All By Myself: Single-Panel Comics and the Question of Genre”

    1:00-2:45


    • Jared Gardner (Ohio State University), “Towards a Deep History of Cartooning”
    • Shawn Gilmore (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “The Panoramic Impulse in Comics and the Limits of the Page”
    • Guy Lawley (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts), “Mr Töpffer goes to America; a highly fortuitous historical contingency” [Zoom]
    • Alex Beringer (University of Montevallo), “The “Smoking Gun” of 1901: Speech Balloons, Editorial Power, and the Emergence of the 20th Century Comic Strip”

    3:00  Keynote


    • Caitlin McGurk (Ohio State University), “Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund”

  • Friday September 27

    9:00-10:30


    • Susan Kirtley (Portland State University), “Working Nine to Five: Employing Fluffy Ruffles” 
    • Daniel Worden (Rochester Institute of Technology), “Working Cartoons: Ted Key’s Hazel and Domestic Labor Across Media”
    • Jennie Law (Georgia State University), “HIV + Me: Comics from the Front Lines”
     

    10:45-12:15


    Margaret Flinn (Ohio State University), chair

    • Mark McKinney (Miami University), “"Comics and other arts in 19th-century France" 
    • Hugo Frey (University of Chichester), “Finding ‘Liliane the Air Hostess’: Archives, Gender, and the History of French Indochina War Comics”
    • Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), “BD reportage in France”
     
     

    1:00–2:30Joseph Parrott (Ohio State University), chair


    • Felipe Muhr (KU Leuven and UGent), “Scavenging the Picture Morgue: Raúl Roux” 
    • Morgan Podraza (Ohio State University), “How We Play with Comics”
    • Kate Kelp-Stebbins (University of Oregon), “Unsettling the Material Relations of Comics”

    2:30

     
    Sidney Heifler (Ohio State University), chair

    • Matthew J. Smith (Ohio State University, Newark), “Rewriting the Textbook Comics History: A Critical Case Study on Authoring Historical Narratives” 
    • Kim Munson (Independent Scholar, San Francisco), “The Comics Legacy of Trina Robbins”
     
     

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More information about all the events at the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival can be found at http://www.cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org

The CXC Scholarly Symposium is sponsored by Popular Culture Studies @OSU and by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum