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Outside the Lines: Reconfiguring Race in American Comics and Graphic Novels
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.
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Participants:
LeSean Thomas, Character Designer & Co-Director of "The Boondocks"
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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
