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Join the LatinX Pop Lab Crew to learn about how pop culture shapes our everyday lives!
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Get to know more about UT English PhD student Ivan Martinez and his thoughts on monsters, comics, and teaching.
Headshot credit to Sophia Williams. Find Sophia on instagram @sophjaarts
Join us as we get to know more about First Year student and Social Media Extraordinaire, Anna Cho!
Student Spotlight: Danielle Garcia-Karr by Latinx Pop Lab
Catch up with Ana, Sam, and Dr. Anthony R. Ramirez as they talk about their reaction to the hit Netflix show Wednesday.
Get the tea on what's happening this semester at the Latinx Pop Lab and learn a little more about our history!
Intro and Outro music by Music by Oleg Fedak from Pixabay
Jared Gardner shares his journey with comics and how this lead to his formal study of comics as a professor. He discusses his work on Charles Schulz, the cross-pollinating history of film and comics, as well as his work as an editor of the journal Inks and the comics series with OSU Press. Discussion includes transmedial storytelling, Board Games, cartoon strips, and more.
African American cartoonists and comics; representation; identification; stereotypes; discourses of citizenship; how comics as a medium (sequentiality and framing) allow readers to think of past, present, and future in relation to identity; histories of being excluded from history and drawing black people into history; political belonging. Discussion also includes Jennifer Cruté's cartoons, Brumsic Brandon Jr.'s Luther, Kyle Baker's Truth, Gene Yuen Lang's American Born Chinese, HBO's series, Watchmen, Jeremy Love's Bayou, Sanford Green and David Walker's Bitter Root.
“How have cartoonists made use of caricature to comment on black people (stereotypes broadly speaking) in conversation with idealizations and how these respond to broader discourses of citizenship"
OSU Professor Sean O'Sullivan Talks: Narrative Theory, Seriality, Literature, Film, & TV. Discussion includes director Mike Leigh, Sopranos, Charles Dickens, The Wire, Deadwood, and so much more!
Deman shares his journey with comics, visual semiotics, Orientalism, and margins of alternative comics. Along the way, Deman discusses Scott McCloud, comics in the 1990s and its seeking of legitimacy, pornography and sexuality in comics, Sam Kieth's Maxx, Aline Kominsky Crumb's It Ain't Me Babe, Chris Claremont, Harley Quinn Vol. 3, #8--as well as the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics, his blog, and his "The Claremont Run" big data research lab.
"The big 3 (Maus, Persepolis, Fun Home) grows from a contextual history of insecurity in comics studies as a field."
OSU Professor Katra Byram Shares her Journey and Research on Narrative, Memory, Identity, Language, Gender & Spaces, Small Houses--and her book Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator with OSU Press.
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins takes us on a journey into art, money, power & planetary comics, including gatekeeping & capitalist global systems of power; politics of exclusion; formal elements of comics that resist conventions of reading and convey resistant political worldviews. Discussion includes Magdy El Shafee's Metro: A Graphic Novel, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's Red: A Haida Manga, Riad Sattouf's Arab of the Future. . . Katherine asks: “Who gets to feel at home and where and why. Who gets to produce and evaluate culture and where and why”
OSU Distinguished Professor Jim Phelan Talks: Rhetorical Narrative Theory & Narrative Medicine by Latinx Pop Lab
Eszter Szep discusses the centrality of the body in comics as well as the vulnerability of the line in Lynda Barry, Joe Sacco, Miriam Katin. Along the way we learn about the history of Hungary's Képregény (Picture-Novel), her own Comics & The Body and her co-created scholarly comic "Lines and Bodies" as well as the International Comics Festival in Budapest. "Drawing the body, movement of the body & its interpretation is at the heart of how we approach comics"
Professor Ian Gordon shares his work on superheroes, comics, film, and comic strips. Discussion includes significance of the superhero symbol, superhero mythos, transmedia, and so much more!
Dynamic Duo Matthew Smith & Randy Duncan Talk: Power of Comics Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow by Latinx Pop Lab
Sean Kleefeld Shares his Journey with Comics, beginning with reading Batman, Superman, Justice League & TVs Super Friends as a kid and it was John Byrne's Fantastic Four #254 and then Kirby that turned Sean into a superhero comics aficionado--and later an avid reader of Watchmen and Maus. Along the way the talks about his blog as well as books Fanthropology & Webcomics.
Eisner-Award Winning Scholar Carolyn Cocca Talks: Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality in Superhero Comics. Huge insights into comics & #Wave Feminism, diversity, militarism—as well as discussion of X-Men films, Batgirl, and Dr. Cocca’s latest book, Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel
Professor Anna Peppard on Gender, Sexuality, Bodies & Superhero Comics. Discussion also includes secret identities, pornified culture, gendered violence, Valkyrie, Kate Kane, X-Men, Batman's penis in Bermejo and Azzarello's Batman Damned, Avengers, Marvel's Swimsuit Special, Superhero Resurrections, She-Devil, Tigra, Night Nurse, The Cat, Feminist History of Marvel Comics, Female Fandom
San Francisco State Professor & Eisner Award Winning Nick Sousanis on Creating Comics & Comics in the Classroom. Discussion includes his journey as Critical Maker & his groundbreaking Unflattening--the first graphic dissertation turned into book.
Dr. Barbara Postema Talks: Meaning Making in Comics. Discussion includes wordless comics by Peter Kuper, Joe Sacco, along with page layouts in comics like Shutterbug Follies, The City, The Groom, and Skim--as well as her own book Narrative Structure in Comics and her coedited book series, Transcultural/ Transnational Comics Studies.
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