"The Old New Media of Comics Art: Comics and Graphic Novels in the 21st Century"

• Event Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
• Time: 4:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Center for Advanced Study
Special Presentation
"The Old New Media of Comics Art: Comics and Graphic Novels in the 21st Century"

Damian Duffy
Doctoral candidate, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

John Jennings
Associate Professor of Graphic Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

What is the art form found in comic books, comic strips, graphic novels and manga?

Comics scholars, curators and graphic novelists John Jennings and Damian Duffy are here to provide the answer, or at least explain the question. They will discuss the history and future of the comics medium in the contexts of new media education and museum exhibition. This presentation will be informed by their own work using graphic novels to critique racial representation in mass media, creating virtual reality comics, and curating the expansive Fall 2008 Krannert Art Museum exhibition "Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics".

This presentation is held in anticipation of the 2009-2010 CAS Initiative on Interpreting Technoscience: Explorations in Identity, Culture and Democracy .

Museum visitors are reminded that outside food and drinks are not allowed in the Museum. Backpacks and other large items brought to the Museum will have to be stored; there is limited locker storage space available for these items.