S234. CANCELLED: Comics Editors and Literary Journals
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Graphic literature, poetry comics, sequential art—whatever the term, the hybrid form of image-text sequences in all of its diverse expressions is finding new homes in literary journals, including those that might once have considered comics too lowbrow to publish. Now journal mastheads increasingly include editors devoted specifically to comics. What are the experiences, goals, and challenges of literary comics editors? Find out from five major journals.
Participants
Moderator:
Chris Gavaler is an associate professor of English at Washington & Lee University, where he teaches creative writing and serves as comics editor of Shenandoah. He has published two novels and four books of comics scholarship.
Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction book Imagine Wanting Only This, and the forthcoming Seek You: Essays on American Loneliness and Terrible Men, a graphic novel. She is the art director and deputy publisher of The Believer.
