Convention Center
San Diego, California
“Superheroes and Meaning in Unbreakable”
Aldo Regalado, Univ. of Miami
“’The Same as Yesterday?’: The Relationship of Midrash and Retcon”
A. David Lewis, Georgetown Univ.
“Birds of a Feather: Fashion, Teenage Sidekicks, and the Transcendence of Class”
Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Bowling Green State Univ.
“Oesterheld: The Literary Voice of Argentine Comics”
Ana Merino, Appalachian State Univ.
“Yaoi as Cyber Sexuality: A Form of Japanese Comics for Girls”
Fusami Ogi, State Univ. of New York—Stony Brook
“A Window on a Trail: The Metaphorical Structuring of Scott McCloud’s Web-Comics”
Shweta Naryan, Univ. of California at Berkeley
“Web Comics, A Unique Space In-Between”
An van Dienderen, Univ. of Ghent
Respondent: Scott McCloud
“Collecting and Scott McCloud’s ‘Frictionless Economy’”
Davin Heckman, Bowling Green State Univ.
“Viewing Scott McCloud Through the Internet Comics Lens”
Justin Colussy Estes, Schreiner Univ.
“Who Killed Dream of The Endless?”
A. David Lewis, Georgetown Univ.
“Fear and Loathing in the Alien Universe”
Ralph E. Vaughan
Slide Presentation: “Descendants of Superman: The Superhero Defined”
Peter Coogan, Fontbonne College
Scholars’ Roundtable: “Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: Depicting and Impacting the Comic Book World”
Peter M. Coogan (moderator), Joustin Colussy Estes, Randy Duncan
Slide Presentation: “Rediscovering Nell Brinkley”
Trina Robbins
Seminar: “Half an Art: Comic Book Writing”
Randy Duncan (moderator), Barbara Kesel, Steve Englehart