"Love and Marriage: Gender Roles and Expectations in the Funny Pages of the 1950’s"
Anthony Harkins, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison

"Racial and Gender Ambiguity in Krazy Kat"
Sonya Wozniak, Univ. of California at Davis

"Touching an American Nerve: Shmoos, Al Capp, and Postwar American Culture"
Robert Pfeffer, St. Cloud State Univ.

Respondent: Clayton Moore

Slide Presentation: "19^th Century Romanticism and the Origins of Contemporary Heroic Fantasy Art and Graphic Story"
Gary Vargas, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara

"Confucius, Common Man, Kenkoy: The Fascinating World of Asian Cartooning"
John Lent, Temple Univ.

"The Growth and Development of British Underground and Alternative Comics,1966 - 1986
David Huxley, the Manchester Metropolitan Univ.

Respondent: Donna Barr

"Comics Books as Social Marketing/Social Learning Devices: A Study of How the Attributes of Comic Books Have Affected Their Rate of Adoption"
Jackson Miller, The Ohio Univ.

"Phonics Through Comics"
Ivan Kalmar, Univ. of Toronto

"Bondage Fantasies and Golden Age Wonder Woman"
Molly Rhodes, Univ. of California at San Diego

Panel Discussion: "Responses to Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics"
Randy Duncan (chair), Will Eisner, James Pascoe, Gary Friedrich

"A Serious Course in the Comics"
Tom Roberts, Univ. of Connecticut

"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; The Effects of Academic Study on Popular Art Forms"
Peter Coogan, Michigan State Univ.

Respondent: Scott McCloud

Slide Presentation: "Visual Storytelling"
Carl Potts