GP S1, E4: "Elizabeth LaPensée" (Chambliss, Ford, Wigard) Nov, 2020
Description
In this episode, Ronny, Julian, and Justin speak with Professor Elizabeth LaPensée about her work creating, illustrating, and writing Indigenous comics and games. We talk with Beth about the graphic power of Deer Woman, the importance of being seen and seeing ones identity represented in comics, and practices of critical-making with students.
Elizabeth LaPensée is an award-winning designer, writer, artist, and researcher of Indigenous-led media including comics. She is Anishinaabe with family at Bay Mills, Métis, and Irish, and an Assistant Professor of Media & Information and Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures at Michigan State University. She has contributed as an illustrator and writer to Deer Woman: A Vignette, and as a writer in MOONSHOT: The Indigenous Comics Collection Volumes 1 and 2. She co-edited the comic anthologies Deer Woman: An Anthology, Sovereign Traces Volume 1: Not (Just) (An)Other, and MOONSHOT: The Indigenous Comics Collection Volume 3, as well as edited Sovereign Traces Volume 2: Relational Constellation.
Sovereign Traces Volume 1 and 2 can be found here:
https://msupress.org/978193806.../sovereign-traces-volume-1/
https://msupress.org/978193806.../sovereign-traces-volume-2/
United States
