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Comics Are the Future: Transformative Storytelling through Sequential Art
Friday, March 10, 2023
9:00 am to 10:15 am
What do a National Book Award winner, a scholar of European art, and alt-comics diarists have in common? They’re pushing the boundaries of literary storytelling through comics. Graphic narratives have exploded in publishing, with “graphic novels” readership surging, a catch-all trade term including graphic journalism, memoir, literary fiction, comics poetry, Afro-futurism, bande dessinée, and other hybrid forms. Theatrical presentations of comics, some read aloud, followed by panel discussion.
Participants
Meg Lemke is the graphic novel reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and editor in chief at MUTHA ;magazine. She chaired comics programming at the Brooklyn Book Festival, curated events for the French Comics Association and PEN America, and was an editor of PEN Illustrated. She lives in Brooklyn.
Megan Kelso was born in Seattle in 1968. She began making comics in the '90s. Kelso has since published three books. In 2007 Kelso became the first woman to do a weekly comic strip for the New York Times Magazine. In 2020, she created an 85-foot-long comics mural, which was installed at Climate Pledge Arena.
Dr. Charles Johnson, University of Washington (Seattle) professor emeritus, MacArthur fellow, and the author of twenty-seven books, is a novelist, philosopher, essayist, literary scholar, short-story writer, cartoonist and illustrator, an author of children’s literature, and a screen- and teleplay-writer.
MariNaomi is the author and illustrator of the SPACE Prize–winning graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22, the Eisner-nominated Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories, the upcoming Turning Japanese, and her self-published Estrus Comics.
Robyn Jordan
