UF Comics Conference - BD & the American Southwest

I gave a paper at the 2016 Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels at the University of Florida. 

It was a treat to see some old acquaintances and meet many scholars for the first time. 

http://www.english.ufl.edu/comics/Comics_TNC_ConferenceSchedule.shtml

ICAF 2016, Columbia, SC

I am honored to be moderating a panel at this year's International Comics Art Forum (ICAF).

I'm running session 2a: Comics Form, Comics History
http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.org/2016-schedule.html

The list of presenters in my session:

Comics and Objecthood:
The Matter of Comics of David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp,
William Orchard, Queens College/CUNY

“The Stereotype is a Fact of Life”: Race, Iconography, and Stereotypes in American Comics,
Jeremy Carnes, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

Honoré Daumier: Caricature and the Conception/Reception of “Fine Art,”
Jasmin W. Cyril, Benedict College

Will Eisner Week 2016 - Rousing Reading & Exhilarating Excerpts

My Theories and Practices for Sequential Art class and I have organized a special reading event in honor of this year's Will Eisner Week.

Jijé's Atelier: The Gang of Four and a Few More.

I wrote a paper for Stephen Wagner's Summer class. The class was a sort of "greatest hits" of art history. Not surprisingly, I chose to write about the same group of mid-twentieth century franco-belgian cartoonists that I always try and write about.

Lacoste Report Winter 2015

I was fortunate enough to spend a few months teaching in France for a second time. Here's my report from the Jan-March 2015 trip. There was so much that happened! I could never show it all.

Digging Up the Odd Lot - SwarmCon 2015

I'm giving a little talk at SwarmCon, if you'd like to come by and check out some weird old comics. Saturday April 25th, 2015. 1:30pm.

ICAF 2014

I will be speaking at the International Comics Art Forum at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. The same place I were I worked this Summer as part of an Internship.

I will be giving an edited version of the paper I wrote for my first M.A Art History course (Art DiFuria's Historiography): "Daumier's Deadline: Expedited Expressiveness and the Franco-Belgian Cartooning Tradition."

This is my second time to speak at ICAF. I spoke at the 2011 Conference.

Halloween 2014

Kristie and I made pieces for the Savannah Dick Blick Halloween show. They were giving out frames at an earlier event, so it seemed like a thing to do.

 I did a couple pumpkins making a bad pun.

I was almost done with the painting before I decided which pun to use. I can't even recall the other puns I considered...

 Here's Kristie and Ollie at the show:

She won 3rd place adult for her piece. It lit up. It's barely visible here.

John Lowe's Foundations in Comic Book Art

Friend and colleague John Lowe recently completed his comics textbook for Watson-Guptill. It's called Foundations in Comic Book Art: Fundamental Tools and Techniques for Sequential Artist.

On page 68, Lowe uses a photo he took of me at the 2012 Mini-Comic Expo as visual research for a story about a fellow named 'David Duncan' who is framed for murder in 1920's New York. 

Have my mail forwarded to Blackwell's Island.

Ages of the X-Men Book

I wrote and article for The Ages of the X-Men, a book of essays that correlate X-Men comics to the time periods in which they were published (or represent).

On pages 128 - 144 you'll find the final version of my essay on Generation X: