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CFP for SiC 11.1 - a special edition on #comics and #education - is out now! https://t.co/vsPyNoNDXG. Deadline for submissions is 1 Nov 2019, please share... #IGNCC19
And the #IGNCC19 joint conference is over! A massive thanks to all our delegates for making it such a fantastic event. Please do submit your work to @studiesincomics, @JGNandComics or European Comic Art @IntBDSoc. And watch this space for news of next year’s IGNCC...!
#igncc19 the final keynote! Richard Reynolds and Jamie Bassett on the excess of superhero narratives. Deleuze and Guattari on line of flight - this is embedded in the genre.
Connerty says many elements of the modern comic introduced in 1890s publications then refined in subsequent century. Eg comic strip sections become dominant; recurring character strips dominate too; growth of juvenile market eg supplements like Puck Junior. #IGNCC19
We made it to day 5! First on panel 1a: Jordanna Conn on protocomics- pre-19thc texts with comics connotations. Eg illuminated manuscripts etc. Jewish Haggodot as an eg - a story of secret identity and reluctant hero call as tells the Exodus narrative. #igncc19
Retrospective keynote from Laurence Grove on 20 years of the IBDS. Development of content, locations, size, scope. From themes to questions. #igncc19
Laurence Grove takes us down the International Bande Dessineé Society memory lane at #IGNCC19
Panel 3b at #igncc19 - superhero story worlds! @JoeSSanders defining Harley Quinn as a feminist villain: carrying tensions inherent to 90s feminism. Victimisation debate: culturally defined term, not always dichotomous and can recognise agency as well as passivity (Lamb)
@Perform_Comics put together an amazing panel on comics and performance today at #IGNCC19
@tickingboy at #igncc19 tracing comics performance from emaki to deeCAP. First Kamishibai - Japanese performance of storyboards & narration. Magic lantern performances, including chars like Ally Sloper. Winsor McCay a vaudeville performwr and lightning sketcher at ‘chalk talks.’
@frederikbk opens his talk by citing @uncannydazzler on transmedia paratexts, linking Miller's comments on "off-panel comics studies" to Chester Brown's patreon #IGNCC19
...also affinity in visual language of theatre. Direct appropriations (rock and roll superman) and odd connections (Jim Steranko trained as a stage magician). Close exam of CAST, maps onto Witek’s model of the cartoon mode #igncc19
Next Maggie Gray on the intersections of comics/cartoons and alternative theatre - adoption of comics design, iconography, & this fed back into underground comics. Print shops/alt presses as bridge between the 2. Popular performance modes eg pantomime, street theatre #igncc19
#igncc19 @gedarcy exploring how previous incarnations and actors ‘ghost’ new iterations - so many Batmen!
Panel 2b at #igncc19 - Character and performance in comics - @gedarcy bringing film scholarship to bear on character: 3 possible approaches (mimetic, enactive, intertextual)
My book is a “bestseller “. JK Rowling must be quaking in her boots! #igncc19
Just finished reading @Johnmiers new work I picked up at #igncc19. Fabulous piece of work whose final panel made me laugh out loud!
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