San Diego, California
“Australian Gothic: Horror and Humor in Australian Alternative Comics”
Michael Hill, Univ. of Technology, Sydney
“Lovecraft in the Comics: Sketching the Unnamable”
Ralph E. Vaughan
Respondent: Michael Wm. Kaluta
“The Vampire in the American Comic Book”
J. Gordon Melton
“Vampire Comics in Italy”
Massimo Introvigne
Respondent: Dćrick Gross
“The Nightmare and the Dream: A Literary Survey of Watchmen and Sandman”
A. David Lewis, Georgetown Univ.
“Images of the ‘Noble Savage’ in Star Wars Comics”
Thomas Schilz, San Diego Miramar College
“Why is This Character Black? Some Popular Representations of Black Race and Negotiated Space in American Society”
Anita K. McDaniel, Augusta State Univ.
“The Emerging Image of the Modern Woman in Hong Kong 1960’s Comics”
Wendy Siuyi Wong, Hong Kong Baptist Univ.; Lisa M. Cuklanz, Boston College
“Comics Need a Multicultural Perspective”
Robert V. Scmidt
Slide Presentation: “How Not to Read Comics Like a Book”
Robert C. Harvey
“The Blue Beetle: A Failed Experiment”
Christopher L. Irving
“From Funny Folks to Comic Life: The Innovation of Victorian British Comics”
Ivy Garlitz
“The Superhero Genre: Revisited and Reinterpreted”
Aldo J. Regalado, Univ. of Miami
“Doom Patrol: From Silver-Age Super-heroes to Postmodern Super-heroes”
Alivise Mattozzi, Bowling Green State Univ.
“Superhero Comic Books: The Technology That Produces Masculinity”
Joan Weston, Babson College
Seminar: “What is the Superhero Genre Tale?”
Randy Duncan (moderator), Nat Gertler, Dan Raspler, Mark Waid,
Peter M. Coogan, Brian Camp
“Gus Arriola’s Gordo: Accidental Ambassador”
Robert C. Harvey
“The Vision of the Cuban Independence Through the Work of Juan Padron Blanco”
Ana Merino, Univ. of Pittsburgh