CNF/AF segnala: The University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Nascent Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, are pleased to announce the 2003 UF Conference on Comics: Underground(s). This second annual conference on the art and literature of sequential pictorial narratives will be held in Gainesville, Florida, on February 7th and 8th, 2003. Participating artists for this year's conference will be Bill Griffith, Kim Deitch, Diane Noomin, Art Spiegelman, and Robert Williams. This Conference will focus on the material history, contemporary production, and critical reception of underground comics. Artists and academic critics will explore what underground comix were, what material and technological changes they created within the medium, and what avenues of narrative and visual expression they opened up for artists following in their wake. The Conference hopes to engage with some of the critical and commercial issues these texts produced within the medium of comics, as well as examine the relationship of underground to other, more mainstream, forms of art and entertainment. Particular topics and concerns may include, but not be limited to:
*Language(s) of visual narrative in the Undergrounds
*Poetics, Semiotics, Play: theoretical approaches to Underground comics
*Left/Right/Center: Undergrounds as Journalism, Advocacy, or History
*Anthologies: Collaboration, Editorial Control, Thematic Unity
*Great Books by Great Authors: ownership, copyright, and creator control
*Gender, Sexuality, and Identity Formation in the undergrounds
*Caricature, Critique, Dissent: The New Left and underground comix
*Matter and Mode: textual production and distribution of the undergrounds
*Collusion, Conflict, and Influence: the pre- and post-history of Underground Comix.
Info: editor@clas.ufl.edu

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