“Online business models and web comics, ranging from the print-to-web migrants like Girl Genius and Finder to the print-to-web download of Flying Friar…”
Podcast: Scott McCloud, “Making Comics”
Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics, spoke on his latest, Making Comics, as a part of his Making Comics Fifty States tour.
Comics: An Art Form in Transition
Print comics have struggled toward maturity through the literate graphic novel movement. Now, it’s experiencing a vastly different set of growing pains on the web.
Podcast: Frank Espinosa, “Rocketo”
Newly appointed MLK scholar Frank Espinosa leads a discussion of his Eisner-award nominated graphic novel, Rocketo.
Comics: Form and Content
Jessica Abel and Matt Madden will be showing examples of their work and talking about different aspects of comics, visual narrative, and creativity in general.
Mask or Closet, or, “Under the Hood”: Metaphors and Representations of Homosexuality in American Superhero Comics After 1985
An examination of the changing representation of male homosexuality in American superhero comics between the years 1986 and 2003.
Comics 2003 — A Fast-Changing Landscape
Cartoonist Scott McCloud discusses recent developments in comics and graphic novels and the recently accelerated evolution of comics on the Web.
