Pop Culture: Comics, TV, Film

Get to know more about UT English PhD student Ivan Martinez and his thoughts on monsters, comics, and teaching. Headshot credit to Sophia Williams. Find Sophia on instagram @sophjaarts

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Jared Gardner shares his journey with comics and how this lead to his formal study of comics as a professor. He discusses his work on Charles Schulz, the cross-pollinating history of film and comics, as well as his work as an editor of the journal Inks and the comics series with OSU Press. Discussion includes transmedial storytelling, Board Games, cartoon strips, and more.

African American cartoonists and comics; representation; identification; stereotypes; discourses of citizenship; how comics as a medium (sequentiality and framing) allow readers to think of past, present, and future in relation to identity; histories of being excluded from history and drawing black people into history; political belonging. Discussion also includes Jennifer Cruté's cartoons, Brumsic Brandon Jr.'s Luther, Kyle Baker's Truth, Gene Yuen Lang's American Born Chinese, HBO's series, Watchmen, Jeremy Love's Bayou, Sanford Green and David Walker's Bitter Root. “How have cartoonists made use of caricature to comment on black people (stereotypes broadly speaking) in conversation with idealizations and how these respond to broader discourses of citizenship"

OSU Professor Sean O'Sullivan Talks: Narrative Theory, Seriality, Literature, Film, & TV. Discussion includes director Mike Leigh, Sopranos, Charles Dickens, The Wire, Deadwood, and so much more!

Deman shares his journey with comics, visual semiotics, Orientalism, and margins of alternative comics. Along the way, Deman discusses Scott McCloud, comics in the 1990s and its seeking of legitimacy, pornography and sexuality in comics, Sam Kieth's Maxx, Aline Kominsky Crumb's It Ain't Me Babe, Chris Claremont, Harley Quinn Vol. 3, #8--as well as the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics, his blog, and his "The Claremont Run" big data research lab. "The big 3 (Maus, Persepolis, Fun Home) grows from a contextual history of insecurity in comics studies as a field."

OSU Professor Katra Byram Shares her Journey and Research on Narrative, Memory, Identity, Language, Gender & Spaces, Small Houses--and her book Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator with OSU Press.

Katherine Kelp-Stebbins takes us on a journey into art, money, power & planetary comics, including gatekeeping & capitalist global systems of power; politics of exclusion; formal elements of comics that resist conventions of reading and convey resistant political worldviews. Discussion includes Magdy El Shafee's Metro: A Graphic Novel, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's Red: A Haida Manga, Riad Sattouf's Arab of the Future. . . Katherine asks: “Who gets to feel at home and where and why. Who gets to produce and evaluate culture and where and why”

OSU Distinguished Professor Jim Phelan Talks: Rhetorical Narrative Theory & Narrative Medicine by Latinx Pop Lab

Eszter Szep discusses the centrality of the body in comics as well as the vulnerability of the line in Lynda Barry, Joe Sacco, Miriam Katin. Along the way we learn about the history of Hungary's Képregény (Picture-Novel), her own Comics & The Body and her co-created scholarly comic "Lines and Bodies" as well as the International Comics Festival in Budapest. "Drawing the body, movement of the body & its interpretation is at the heart of how we approach comics"

Professor Ian Gordon shares his work on superheroes, comics, film, and comic strips. Discussion includes significance of the superhero symbol, superhero mythos, transmedia, and so much more!

Dynamic Duo Matthew Smith & Randy Duncan Talk: Power of Comics Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow by Latinx Pop Lab

Sean Kleefeld Shares his Journey with Comics, beginning with reading Batman, Superman, Justice League & TVs Super Friends as a kid and it was John Byrne's Fantastic Four #254 and then Kirby that turned Sean into a superhero comics aficionado--and later an avid reader of Watchmen and Maus. Along the way the talks about his blog as well as books Fanthropology & Webcomics.

Eisner-Award Winning Scholar Carolyn Cocca Talks: Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality in Superhero Comics. Huge insights into comics & #Wave Feminism, diversity, militarism—as well as discussion of X-Men films, Batgirl, and Dr. Cocca’s latest book, Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel

Professor Anna Peppard on Gender, Sexuality, Bodies & Superhero Comics. Discussion also includes secret identities, pornified culture, gendered violence, Valkyrie, Kate Kane, X-Men, Batman's penis in Bermejo and Azzarello's Batman Damned, Avengers, Marvel's Swimsuit Special, Superhero Resurrections, She-Devil, Tigra, Night Nurse, The Cat, Feminist History of Marvel Comics, Female Fandom

San Francisco State Professor & Eisner Award Winning Nick Sousanis on Creating Comics & Comics in the Classroom. Discussion includes his journey as Critical Maker & his groundbreaking Unflattening--the first graphic dissertation turned into book.

Dr. Barbara Postema Talks: Meaning Making in Comics. Discussion includes wordless comics by Peter Kuper, Joe Sacco, along with page layouts in comics like Shutterbug Follies, The City, The Groom, and Skim--as well as her own book Narrative Structure in Comics and her coedited book series, Transcultural/ Transnational Comics Studies.

ProfessorKate Polak Talks: Comics Emotions, Empathy, and Ethics! Discussion includes comics such as Watchmen, Hellblazer, Scalped, Deogratias, Auschwitz, Letting it Go, Lucifer, Black Hole, V for Vendetta, Black Knight Returns, Monstress, Saga. Kate also talks about her own comic book.

Professor Frederik Køhlert discusses the significance of Serial Selves for historically unrepresented communities, including discussion of the Comics Studies program at University of East Anglia, the work of Julie Doucet, Al Davison, Toufic El Rassai, Phoebe Gloeckner, Ariel Schrag, and so much

Professor Andrew Kunka Talks: The importance of Autobiography Comics for the Historically Unrepresented or Underrepresented. Discussion includes Maus, Fun Home, Persepolis, Harvey Pekar, and so much more!

Professor Daniel Yezbick talks about the importance of telling one's own story--one's autobiography--in comics form. Includes discussion of George Carlson, Li'l Abner, Frederic Wertham, Disney, Carl Bark, Underground Comix, Maus, Red Dog, Legend, Animosity, Action Figures, and more.

Professor Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste discusses Latinx Comics, Mexican and Latin American Comics and Popular Culture and the Nation; includes discussion of Kalimán, Lalo Alcaraz, Los Bros Hernandez

OSU Distinguished Professor Brian McHale Talks Postmodern Narrative & Narrative Theory. Discussion includes his entrance into and journey with postmodern narratives, beginning with Thomas Pynchon; his scholarly pull toward the long poem; Poetics Today

OSU Professor Angus Fletcher Talks: Storytelling Science. Discussion includes about how we can learn about our narrative hardwiring and how to storytelling techniques like Hamlet's soliloquy or reverse engineered PIxar film Up! and how these can and do make stories exciting and new through reverse engineering.

Professor Jorge Santos Talks About his Book Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement. Discussion includes: John Lewis and Nate Powell's March, Lila Quintero Weaver's Darkroom, Ho Che Anderson's King, Daniel Parada's Zotz, and New X-Men, Dawn of X. So much insight!

Professor Latinx with Dr. Pramod Nayar on The Indian Graphic Novel. Discussion includes growing up with superhero comics, nonfiction graphic novels, comics about immigration, postcolonial comics, social realism in Indian graphic novels; caste and subaltern oppression; English comics in India creating reading communities; visual and verbal multimodal literacy; autobiography by "nobodies"; cosplay in India; posthumanism; trans-species; ecodystopias; difficulty teaching comics in India because of cost;

Professor Latinx with Dr. Nicola Streeten who shares her Journey as Curator & Scholar of Women Cartoonists & Graphic Novelists as well as Creator of the Groundbreaking and Award Winning Graphic Memoir: Billy, Me & You. Includes discussion of her new book, UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics; the importance of concepts of feminist comics, including the power of humor and laughter to open spaces and eyes to complexities of gender identities and experiences; Laydeez Do Comics Festival and Workshops. Comics: Kate Charlesworth's Sensible Footware: A Girl's Guide; Lucy Sullivan's Barking; Steven Appleby's Dragman; Sabba Kahn's Plurlaism; Ed MK Czerwiec's Meno Pause; Danny Noble's Shame Pudding

Please Join Professor Michael Chaney as he shares his personal journey with comics and awareness as a kid growing up in Ohio of his mixed race heritage; his comics scholarship on autobiography and self-representation by those traditionally not represented; his journey to become a "critical engager with optic world" as well as a visual storyteller and artist! Discussion also includes Animality in comics; the comics: March; Incognegro; My New York Diary; Persepolis; The Imposter's Daughter; Krazy Kat; Black Hole; Maus; Political Cartoons; Gado. Jillian Tamaki.

Lisa DeTora takes us on a journey through the significance of gender, health, humanities, and graphic medicine; discussion includes European Comics, Grant Morrison, Multiverse as well as comics such as Radioactive, Marbles, Stitches, Imagine Wanting Only This, Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout.

Professor James Donahue Talks: Comics, Indigenous Studies, & Animal Studies. Includes discussion of Brian K. Vaughn's Ex Machina, Arigon Starr's Super Indian, Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women And Girls Movement. . .

Professor Latinx with Jean Lee Cole on Comics Strips, Comics History, & US Sociopolitical Histories

Professor Deborah Whaley talks about her work on Race, Gender, Afrogoth, & Comics; discussion includes her book Black Women in Sequence, TV and film adaptations, Catwoman, The Butterfly, webcomics and transnational futurisms, curating of exhibits and creating of own art.

Shiamin Kwa by Latinx Pop Lab

Professor Latinx speaks with Maaheen Ahmed of Ghent University About Comics Forms, Monsters, and Kids in Comics

Samantha Langsdale Talks Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Monstrous in Comics. Comics discussed include Moon Girl, Captain Marvel, Monstress, America, Dark Phoenix, Ironheart, They Called Us Enemy. . .

Professor Bart Beaty on Materiality of Comic Book Histories and Empirical Comics Studies

Professor Isabel Molina-Guzmán on Latinx Identities in Pop Culture by Latinx Pop Lab

Professor Jeffrey Brown on Race and Gender in Superhero Comics

Professors Ilan Stavans & Christopher González On Latinx Pop Culture

Professor William Nericcio On Decolonizing Mainstream Pop Culture Imaginaries

Professors Cristina Herrera and Trevor Boffone Talk About Latinx YA Lit & Pop Culture

Andréa Gilroy Comics Scholar and Comics Book Store Owner on Why Comics Matter

Lindsey Stirek Unzips her Brain on Manga

ProfessorLatinx & 3 PhDs Discuss Netflix Gentefied: "Derivative Kahlo Kitsch" per Hollywood Reporter; Or Complex Latinidad

Irma Zamora joins ProfessorLatinX to talk about the film Knives Out and its radical shifting of representations of Latinx subjects and its commentary and critique of the 1% hysteria around wealth redistribution. . .and so much more!

Benoît Crucifix & Sylvain Lesage Put Finger on Pulse of French and Belgian Comics by Latinx Pop Lab

Janine Utell On Alison Bechdel and Significance of LGBTQ & Nonbinary Comics by Latinx Pop Lab