2004
| THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 | |
| 9:15-9:30 | Welcome by Charles Hatfield, Chair |
| 9:30-11:00 | PANEL 1: IMAGE/TEXT RELATIONSHIPS AND PICTORIAL LANGUAGE -- Moderated by Guy Spielmann Leslee Wright (University of Nebraska): “Toward a Poetics of Pictorial Language” Ryan Holmberg (Yale University): “I Speak Publish: Sasaki Maki and the Life of Type” A. David Lewis (Georgetown University): “The Shape of Comic Book Reading” |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | PANEL 2: REINTERPRETATION AND SUBVERSION -- Moderated by Marc Singer Rob Lendrum (Concordia University): “Queering Super-Manhood: The Gay Superhero in Contemporary Mainstream Comic Books” Travis Nygard (University of Pittsburgh) and Alex Sonsteby (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): “Blasphemy and Blessedness in Modern American Comics: Visual Theology in the Tijuana Bibles” |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:30 | PANEL 3: COMICS AS "SEQUENTIAL ART": TESTING THE BOUNDARIES -- Moderated by Charles Hatfield Kelly Averett (University of Maryland): “Making Modern Myths: Using the Online Blake Archive to Examine William Blake’s Book of Urizen As Sequential Art” Tom Chalkley (Johns Hopkins University): “Graphic Composition as ‘Grammar’ in Single-Panel Cartoons” Craig Fischer (Appalachian State University): "Jack's Backgrounds" |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-4:15 | Special Announcement: The John A. Lent Scholarship competition for ICAF 2005 |
| 4:15-5:00 | Guest Speaker DR. JOHN A. LENT (USA) and XU YING (CHINA): "The Masters Speak: Chinese Cartoonist Profiles" |
| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 | |
| 9:30-11:00 | PANEL 4:(NOT SIMPLY) EROTIC COMICS -- Moderated by Ana Merino Matthew T. Jones (Temple University): “Erotic Comics: An Investigation into the Arousal of Sexual Desire through Comic Art” Hector Fernández L’Hoeste (Georgia State University): “Flopi Bach: A Benevolent Misogyny?” Santiago Fernández Lorenzo (Universidad del Valle de Toluca): “Analysis of the graphic discourse in ‘Valentina’” |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | PANEL 5: RECONSIDERING CARICATURE -- Moderated by Cécile Danehy John F. Ronan (University of Florida): “The Caricatural Comic Strip: Progress and Effects” Margo Bistis (Art Center College of Design): “Bad Art: The Decline of Academic Art in the Caricatural Salon” |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:00 | PANEL 6: COMICS VIS-À-VIS "HIGH ART": QUESTIONS OF RECEPTION -- Moderated by Marc Singer Jose Alañiz (University of Washington, Seattle): “The ‘Quintessentially Russian’ Komiks of Zhora Litichevsky” Bart Beaty (University of Calgary): “Comics and the Question of Value: The Example of Alex Ross” |
| 3:00-3:30 | Break |
| 3:30-4:30 | Guest Speaker JOHN BENSON (USA) (Introduced by Mark Nevins) |
| 4:30-8:00 | Dinner Break |
| 8:00-9:00 | ICAF AND THE SMALL PRESS EXPO JOINTLY PRESENT: Guest Artist STEVE BRODNER (Introduced by Charles Hatfield) |
| SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2 | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Guest Artists TOBIAS SCHALKEN and STEFAN VAN DINTHER (Netherlands) (Introduced by Mark Nevins) |
| 12:00-12:15 | Break |
| 12:15-1:15 | Guest Artist LILY LAU LEE LEE (Hong Kong) |
| 1:15-2:00 | Break |
| 2:00-3:00 | Guest Artist MIGUELANXO PRADO (Spain) (Introduced by Ana Merino) |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break |
| 3:15-4:15 | LIT INTO COMICS I: "Masterpiece Comics," by Guest Artist R. SIKORYAK |
| 4:15-5:15 | LIT INTO COMICS II: Guest Artist PAUL KARASIK |
| 6:00-7:00 | THE SMALL PRESS EXPO AND ICAF JOINTLY PRESENT: POLITICS & COMICS -- A timely panel discussion with artists Frank Cammuso, Keith Knight, Ted Rall, Mikhaela Blake Reid, and Jen Sorensen. |
