Dense but affordable, self-published comic anthologies sparked an explosion of limited-edition releases from Melbourne, Australia’s innovative underground comic artists in the late1990’s – 2000’s. Generally produced in runs anywhere from 20 –1000…
Talks
A Xerox of a Xerox a Xerox
How do comics save themselves? What are the modes of knowledge production and cultural transmission that shape the past of comics? Which means organize the inscription of comics in a longer temporal…
Introduction to Indian Comics
Comics in India are being treated as cheap objects. People feel they have no inherent value, and are often discarded. Through a documentation of different raddiwalas (paper recyclers) who sort through the…
Collage & Comics: From Source to the Subject
Comics’ entry to the fine art world was the source of the appropriation art (Lichtenstein). But now many comic artists deploy the method of appropriation includes collage. There are exciting similarities of…
Feminist Critiques of Comics Histor(iograph)y
Sadly, comics have a longstanding tradition of sexism. Primarily focusing on North American / Canadian comics, we will discuss how sexism has affected the writing of the history of comics (erasing women)…