Sixth Annual Comic Arts Conference

August 13 – 14, 1998

Convention Center

San Diego, California

“Towards a History of a Stalled Medium: Comics in Russia”

Jose Alaniz, Univ. of California at Berkeley

“Australia’s Comic Art History”

Lindsay Foyle

“Nostalgia for ‘The Golden Age’: The Contemporary Superhero in ‘The Iron Age’ of the Comic Book”

Kristen L. Abbey, Rutgers Univ.

“The Periodization Parallel: Comparing the Designated Periods in Comic Books and Film History”

James Thompson, Univ. of Southern California

“Comic Art as Medicine: Calvin and Hobbes and the Subjective Nature of Reality”

Greg Beda

“Love in Krazy Kat”

Jeff Rice, Univ. of Florida

“Therapy as Entertainment: EC Comics’ Psychoanalysis”

Jonathan Frome, Univ. of Florida

“Truth, Justice, and the American Way: Propaganda and Comic Books in the Second World War”

Ed Streb, Rowan Univ.

“’Looking Down on the Wreck’: Anti-Romanticism in Ambrose Bierce’s ‘Chickamauga’ and Harvey Kurtzman’s ‘A Baby’”

Jarret Keene, Florida State Univ.

“Gilgamesh in a Black Rubber Suit: Batman as the Modern Mesopotamian Hero”

Thomas Schilz, San Diego Miramar College

“The Alchemical Creation of the Silver Age DC Superhero”

Mark Coale

“The ‘Metal’ of a Human: A ‘Refutation of Dualism’ in DC’s The Doom Patrol”

Craig McKenney

Slide Presentation:  “From Kewpies to Bad Girls and Beyond”

Trina Robbins

Respondent:  Olga Abella

Poster Session:  “The Changing Image of Blacks in Comics: 1890’s-1990’s”

William Foster, Naugatuck Valley Community-Technical College

Poster Session:  “The Portrayal of Flying Disc Sports in Comic Book Art”

Clayton A. Moore

Poster Session:  “Muscular Mishaps: How Modern Superheroes are Hamstrung by Poor Anatomy”

Lyman Dally

Poster Session:  “Walt Kelly’s Development as a Comic Book and Comic Strip Artist”

David Applegate