Outside the Lines: Reconfiguring Race in American Comics and Graphic Novels

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A colloquium concerning issues of diversity, commerce, artistic control, stereotypes, discrimination, aesthetics and pressing debates over the role and responsibility of artists and the comic art and narratives they create.

Participants: 

LeSean Thomas, Character Designer & Co-Director of "The Boondocks"

Lalo Alcaraz, Creator of the nationally syndicated Latino daily strip, "La Cucaracha"

Eric Battle, freelance artist, DC and Marvel Comics

Nnedi Okorafor, award-winning science fiction and fantasy novelist

Brandon M. Easton, screenwriter on Warner Bros. new ThunderCats TV series

Stanford Carpenter, Assistant Professor, Ethnographic, Visual and Critical Studies

Qiana Whitted, Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies

John Jennings, Associate Professor, Visual Studies-SUNY Buffalo

Panel A: Questions of Racial Authenticity in Comics and Graphic Novels: 9-10:30am

Panel B: Racial Intersectionality, Chicano/Asian-ness as Exotic Blackness in Comics: 11-12:30pm

Panel C: Radical Racial Discourse and Imagery in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2-3:30pm

Panel D: Film and Television Adaptations of Comics/Graphic Novels: 4-5:30pm

Feb. 23rd, 2012

Ahamanson Auditorium/University Hall 1000