The International Comic Arts Forum

2008

October 9-11, 2008, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, SAIC Ballroom
9:30-9:45	Welcome and Introduction
9:45-10:45	PANEL 1: Comics in and of Chicago Moderated by Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee David Olsen (Saint Louis University), We Are Not Our Own Animals: Max Ernst, Art Spiegelman, and Paul Hornschemeier Barbara Postema (Michigan State University), “Welcome to Chickenopolis": The Urban Utopianism of Sara Varon’s Chicago
11:00-12:00	PANEL 2: Disease and Disability in Comics Moderated by Charles Hatfield, ICAF Executive Committee Bruce Dadey (Laurentian University), Breaking Quarantine: Image, Text, and Disease in Black Hole, Epileptic, and Our Cancer Year José Alaniz (University of Washington Seattle), Disability in/as the Works of Chris Ware
12:00-1:300	Lunch break
1:30-3:30	PANEL 3: Racial Identity Moderated by Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee Frank Bramlett (University of Nebraska at Omaha), Interrogating Linguistic Blackface in Afro Samurai Gert Meesters (Université de Liège, Belgium), Creating a Deviant Identity in a Patriarchal Environment: Bitterkomix' Use of Provocation, Honesty and Subculture as Discursive Weapons Hectór Fernández L’Hoeste (Georgia State University), From Mexifornia to Newyorktitlan: East vs. West Meets the Mexican Tradition Brian Patton (King’s College at the University of Western Ontario), Urban Jungle Action: Blaxploitation in Four Colours
4:30-5:30	Presentation of the John A. Lent Scholarship in Comics Studies ICAF Executive Committee and John A. Lent, presenters Lent Scholarship Lecture: Ben Little (Middlesex University, UK)

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, SAIC Ballroom
9:30-10:30	PANEL 4: Comics as response to socio-historical context Moderated by Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee Martha Kuhlman (Bryant University), Time Machine: Prague's Wilson Main Train Station by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99 Matthew Costello (Saint Xavier University), From Eco to Baudrillard in Universe X: The Function of the Superhero under Late Capitalism
11:00-12:00	PANEL 5: Narrative strategies Moderated by Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee Tracy Canfield (Indiana University), Artificer: The Representation of Subjectivity in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Roy T. Cook (University of Minnesota), The Influence of Cinema on Silver Age and Post-Silver Age Comics
2:00-1:00	Lunch break
1:00-2:00	John A. Lent (Temple University), Out of Africa: The Saga of Exiled Cartoonists in France Introduced by Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee
2:15-3:15	Pascal Lefèvre (Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design, Belgium), Researching Early Comics: A Case Study: Belgium in Relation to Other Countries (1880-1930) Introduced by Cécile Danehy, ICAF Executive Committee
4:00-5:00	Guided tour of the Playboy Archives

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, SAIC Gene Siskel Film Center
9:00-10:30	Artist Presentation: JORGE OPAZO ELLICKER, AKA Jorge Quién (Argentina/Chile): Dialogue between Comics and Contemporaneous Art Introduced by Mark Nevins, ICAF Executive Committee
10:45-12:15	Artist Presentation: NICOLAS MAHLER (Austria) Introduced by Mark Nevins, ICAF Executive Committee
12:45-1:15	Damian Duffy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Out of Sequence A preview of the exhibition Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics, co-curated by John Jennings and Damian Duffy for the Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Introduced by Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee

2007

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18
9:00-9:15	Welcome and introduction
9:15-10:45	Panel 1: To and against type: Othering and stereotyping Moderated by Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee Phillip Troutman, “Abolition Comix: Semiotics, Icon, Sequence, and Network in Anti-Slavery Visual Argument” Jay Casey, “Advance and Be Criticized: A Reappraisal of the Portrayal of Friend and Foe by Overseas Soldier Cartoonists during the Second World War” Frank Bramlett, “Camp, Sissies, and Queers in The Rawhide Kid”
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	Panel 2: Political tensions in contemporary Asian cartooning Moderated by Craig Fischer, ICAF Executive Committee Todd S. Munson, “Anti-Chinese Rhetoric in Contemporary Japanese Manga” Josette Mazzella di Bosco Balsa, “Political cartoonists in the historical context of Hong Kong after the Handover, 1997-2007”
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:30	Panel 3: Sound and speech in comics Moderated by Cecile Danehy, ICAF Executive Committee Robert S. Petersen, “The Metamorphosis of Phylacteries” C. W. Toph Marshall, “Diegetic Sound in Dave Sim’s Cerebus”
2:30-2:45	Break
2:45-3:45	Guest Speaker DR. IAN GORDON (Australia/Singapore)
3:45-4:00	Break
4:00-5:00	Art display in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room Courtesy of the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon Curated by Sara Duke and Martha Kennedy, The Swann Foundation
5:00-6:00	Display of drawings by Lat in the Asian Division Reading Room Courtesy of the Library of Congress Asian Division Curated by Kathryn Wellen, Library of Congress Asian Division

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19
9:30-10:30	Panel 4: Comics in cultural institutions Moderated by Arnold Blumberg, Geppi's Entertainment Museum Poliana Irizarry and Joshua C. Roberts, “Beyond Leisure Reading: Garnering Support for Comics Scholarship from Your Academic Library” John Jennings and Damian Duffy, “Remasters of American Comics: Sequential art as new media in the face of the transformative museum context”
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Panel 5: The theory and practice of comics studies Moderated by Charles Hatfield, ICAF Executive Committee Ernesto Priego, “The Tell-Tale Smell of Burning Paper: ‘Logic of Form’ and the Origin of Comics” Benjamin Woo, “An Age-old Problem: Problematics of Comic Book Historiography” Joseph Witek, “American Comics Criticism and the Problem of Dual Address” Ernesto Priego, a citizen of Mexico, is unable to present his paper at ICAF because he has been denied entry into the United States of America. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has not renewed his visa, nor have they given him any explanation why he will not be allowed into the country.
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:30	Panel 6: Audiences and reception cultures Moderated by Guy Spielmann, ICAF Executive Committee Noriko Inomata, “The establishment of female manga readership in Japan and its circulation system: A comparison with the case of French market” Ken Parille, “Jason and the Appropriators: Fashion, Photos, and the Comic” José Alaniz, “Autobiography and Post-Soviet Russian Comics”
3:30-4:00	Break
4:00-5:00	Guest Artist LAT (Mohammed Nor Khalid) (Malaysia) Introduced by John A. Lent, Temple University
5:00-7:30	Dinner
7:30-9:00	ICAF AND THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOINTLY PRESENT: Iconophobia: Comics, Politics, and the Power of the Image A special event at the George Washington University’s Gelman Library featuring Lat, Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, and Robert Russell Moderated by Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Co-sponsored by the Gelman Library, George Washington University

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20
1:00-2:30	Panel 7: Remembrance and nostalgia Moderated by Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Jennifer Castel, “Nostalgia, Representation, and Identity in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers” Pedro Pérez del Solar, “’A Führer’s day’: Comics and politics of memory in 1980s Spain” Jason Buchanan, “A Superman without a World: Mourning, Melancholy, and Nostalgia in the Images of Post 9/11 Superman”
2:30-2:45	Break
2:45-3:45	Lent Scholarship Lecture: Orion Ussner Kidder, University of Alberta
3:45-4:00	Break
4:00-5:00	Guest Artist KYLE BAKER (USA)
5:00	Closing remarks

2006

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12
9:00-9:15	Introduction
9:15-10:45	Panel 1: Cultural exchanges in French comics Chair: Guy Spielmann, ICAF Executive Committee Karen Leader, “Les caricaturistes peints par eux-mêmes” Jennifer Worth, “Framing and Unveiling: Marjane Satrapi’s Performance of Persepolis“ Bart Beaty, “Appropriating la nouvelle bande dessinée: The Question of Cultural Change”
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Panel 2: Manga and Japanese society Chair: Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee Ryan Holmberg, “Japan, a country with guns: Armament and Manga in the 1960s” Steven Clark, “Boxing Manga and the Fictionality Vector “ Kukhee Choo, “Manga: Japanese Governement Marketing Strategy”
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	Georgia Higley, “Researching Comic Books in the Library of Congress”
3:00-3:45	Art Display in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room Courtesy of the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon Curated by Sara Duke and Martha Kennedy, The Swann Foundation
3:45-4:00	Break
4:00-5:00	Tour of “Enduring Outrage: Editoral Cartoons by Herb Block” in the American Treasures Gallery, Library of Congress Jefferson Building Tour conducted by Martha Kennedy and Sara Duke
5:00-7:00	Dinner
7:00-8:30	An Evening with Jules Feiffer The legendary cartoonist and author discusses his career

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13
9:00-10:30	Panel #3: Collaborative authorship Chair: Charles Hatfield, ICAF Executive Committee Adam Rosenblatt, “The Making and Remaking of El Eternauta” Michael Wenthe, “The Rules of the Game“ Isaac Cates, “The Many Hands of Alan Moore“
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Panel #4: Comics and memory Chair: Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee Natsu Onoda, “Comics, College, and Collective Memory” Pedro Perez-Del-Solar, “Spanish War Stories:Constructing Spanish Civil War from the Underground“ Michael Chaney, “Re-Membering, Re-mediating Slavery”
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	Lent Scholarship Lecture: Barbara Postema, Michigan State University
3:00-3:30	Break
3:30-5:00	Panel #5: The frontiers of the comics form Chair: Craig Fischer, ICAF Executive Committee Robert Peterson, “The Acoustics of Manga: Narrative Erotics and Visual Presence of Sound” John Jennings, Damian Duffy, and Rose Marchack, “Virtual Unreality and the Shape of Time: Virtual comics, postmodern self-referentiality, and the fourth dimension”
5:00-7:00	Dinner
7:30-9:30	ICAF AND GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOINTLY PRESENT: Smile Through the Tears: Bearing witness to the Rwandan genocide A special event at the George Washington University’s Gelman Library featuring Rupert Bazambanza, Ellen Yamshon, and moderator Steven Livingston Co-sponsored by the Gelman Library, the GWU English Department, & the GWU Writing Program

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14
10:30-12:00	Panel 6: Early Comics Chair: Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Gerry Beegan, “’Leaving Out’: Imaging the Cockney in the Caricatures of Phil May” David Olsen, “’Monkeying with the ink bottle’: The Signifying Potential of George Herriman’s Krazy Kat” Jared Gardner, “Gutter Stories: Comics, Film, and Modernity, 1897-1917”
12:00-1:30	Lunch SYMPOSIUM: Superhero Comics Behind the Scenes
1:30-3:00	ICAF Roundtable: Comics production Moderator: Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee Stuart Moore and Jamal Igle (Firestorm) discuss the steps of assembling a comic book for a major US publisher
3:00-3:15	Break
3:15-4:45	ICAF Roundtable: Comics and politics Moderator: Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee Phil Jiminez (The Invisibles, Infinite Crisis, Otherworld) and Denny O’Neil (Batman, Green Lantern/Green Arrow) discuss the challenges of addressing political issues in superhero comics

2005

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13
9:00-9:15	Introduction by Charles Hatfield, Chair
9:15-10:45	PANEL 1: Comics, Nation-Building, and Political Identity Chair: Guy Spielmann, ICAF Executive Committee Adam Cathcart, “Icons of Exclusion in Early Maoist Political Cartoons, 1949-1951” Joel Vessels, “Sous-Produit Littéraire No Longer: Bande Dessinée and Jack Lang” Benjamin Woo, “True North, Super-Strong and Free: ‘Borealism’ and Identity in Canadian Comic Books”
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	PANEL 2: Caricature, Social Satire, and Dissidence Chair: Cécile Danehy, ICAF Executive Committee Jose Alaniz, “Caricature and Incarceration: The Case of Slava Sysoyev” Noelle Paulson Bradley, “‘Masks that Reveal’: Social Inequality in J.J. Grandville’s Les Metamorphoses du jour (1829)”
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:45	A Roundtable of Prize-Winning Editorial Cartoonists Moderator: Stanford Carpenter, ICAF Executive Committee Kevin Kallaugher (The Baltimore Sun, The Economist) Ann Telnaes (Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate/ New York Times Syndicate) Tom Toles (Washington Post)
2:45-3:00	Break
3:00-3:45	"Herblock Knew" – Keynote talk by Harry Katz Curator, The Herblock Archives
3:45-5:00	Art Display in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room Courtesy of the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon Curated by Sara Duke & Martha Kennedy, The Swann Foundation
5:00-7:00	Dinner
7:00-9:00	Keynote Presentation: A Talk with Jerry Robinson A special session with the pioneering cartoonist, comic book artist, comics editor and historian, interviewed by Harry Katz

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
9:00-10:15	Keynote Presentation: Fang Cheng (China) Introduced by John A. Lent, Temple University Interpreted by Xu Ying
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-10:45	Award Ceremony:  Presentation of the 1st Annual John A. Lent Scholarship ICAF Executive Committee and John A. Lent, presenters
10:55-11:30	Lent Scholarship Lecture: Nhu-Hoa Nguyen, Université du Québec à Montréal
11:30-12:30	PANEL 3: Prose and Comics / Prose in Comics Chair: Charles Hatfield, ICAF Executive Committee Isaac Cates, “Prose and Comics: Captions, Narration and Eisner’s The Name of the Game" Michael Wenthe, “Prose and Comics: Text, Intertextuality, and Gemma Bovary”
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:30	PANEL 4: Form as Politics, Form as History Chair: Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Alisia Chase, “We Cannot Look at the Personal Clutter: Diaristic Indulgence and Alternative Girlhoods in the Works of Contemporary Female Comic Artists” Clark Farmer, “The Historical Mark of Color: Hellboy between Page and Screen” Pedro Pérez del Solar, “The Perverse Machine of Oblivion: Reflections on Memory in Contemporary Spanish Comics”
3:30-3:45	Break
3:45-5:15	PANEL 5: Manga, from Diverse Perspectives Chair: Jeff Miller, ICAF Executive Committee Deborah Shamoon, “Reading Stars and Flowers: Flatness and Depth in Shojo Manga (Girls’ Comics) of the 1970s” Christine Hong, “‘Like Memories from My Own Life’: Prosthetic Memory, Testimony and the Comics Image in Keiji Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen” Ryan Holmberg, “Silence is the Blood whose Flesh is Singing”
5:15-7:30	Dinner
7:30-9:30	ICAF AND GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOINTLY PRESENT: "Serious Comics: Reimagining Literature & History" A special program at The George Washington University, Melvin Gelman Library, Room 202, 2130 H Street NW (Foggy Bottom / GWU Metro Station) Paul Grist (United Kingdom) Benjamin Herzberg (France/USA) Co-sponsored by the Gelman Library, the GWU English Department, & the GWU Writing Program

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
8:45-10:15	PANEL 6: Comics as Social Commentary (Resisting the Obvious) Chair: Ana Merino, ICAF Executive Committee Mercedes Diaz, “Drawing in Cuban: A Look at the Work of Expatriate Cuban Cartoonists” Hector Fernández l’Hoeste, “Beyond Just Gender: On the World of Maitena Burundarena” Cathy Leaker, “The Alienated Axis: Resisting Empathy in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood”
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-11:30	PANEL 7: Memory and Desire in the Comics of Chris Ware Chair: Marc Singer, ICAF Executive Committee Ernesto Priego, “The Abandoned Amusement Park: Nostalgia and Memory Work in Chris Ware’s Comic Art” Shawn Saler, “Comfortable Lunchbox”
11:30-1:00	Lunch SYMPOSIUM: A TRIBUTE TO WILL EISNER
1:00-2:00	Keynote Presentation: Bob Andelman on Will Eisner
2:00-3:00	Screening: Will Eisner: The Spirit of an Artistic Pioneer (excerpts) Presented by filmmakers Andrew Cooke and Jon B. Cooke
3:00-3:15	Break
3:15-4:30	ICAF Roundtable: The Narrative Art of Will Eisner - A Close Reading Moderated by Craig Fischer, ICAF Executive Committee Featuring R. Fiore, Paul Grist, Charles Hatfield, and Marc Singer
4:30-5:30	Keynote Presentation: Benjamin Herzberg on Will Eisner

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.

2003

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
8:00-8:45	Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00	Intro by ICAF Chair Jeff Miller
9:00-10:30	Cartooning Politics I: Comic Art at War (Adam Cathcart, Mark McKinney, Clare Tufts -- Moderated by Marc Singer)
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	(Re)Fashioning Cultural Identity through Comics (Aryak Guha, Edward Portnoy -- Moderated by Jeff Miller)
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-3:00	Comics Form I: Design as Communication (Christian Hill, Gene Kannenberg Jr., Leslee Wright -- Moderated by Charles Hatfield)
3:00-3:30	Break
3:30-4:30	Semiautobiography in Comics (Craig Fischer, Barbara Postema -- Moderated by Ana Merino)
5:00-8:00	COMICS FORMALISM: A Workshop On Creating Comics Through Constraints (Matt Madden, Jason Little, Tom Hart) (preregistration required)
8:00-9:30	Reception (French Dept, McCarthy Space, Intercultural Center 425)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
8:00-8:30	Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:30	Nationhood and Reception (Elizabeth Ho, Joel Vessels -- Moderated by Guy Spielmann)
9:30-10:00	Break
10:00-11:00	Comics Form II: Beyond Storytelling (Andrei Molotiu, Natsu Onoda -- Moderated by Marc Singer)
11:00-11:30	Break
11:30-12:30	Keynote Scholar: Patrick Rosenkranz, author of the underground comix history Rebel Visions
12:30-3:00	Lunch
3:00-4:00	Production Aesthetics in Cultural Contexts (Bart Beaty, Robert R. Daniel -- Moderated by Guy Spielmann)
4:00-4:15	Break
4:15-5:15	Keynote Scholar: David Kunzle, author of The History of the Comic Strip
5:15-7:00	Dinner Break
7:30-10:00	Italian Comics Artists Francesca Ghermandi and Stefano Ricci (Italian Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C., 2025 M St NW)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
9:00-9:30	Continental Breakfast
9:30-10:30	Artist Lalo Alcaraz
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-12:15	Cartooning Politics II: Latin American Cases (Vladimir [Vladdo] Florez, Héctor D. Fernández L'Hoeste, John A. Lent -- Moderated by Ana Merino)

2002

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
8:30-9:00	Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Welcome and Introduction by Dr. Jeffrey Miller, 2002 ICAF Chair
9:15-10:45	Panel #1 COMICS, FILM THEORY, AND FILM Jose Alaniz: "Speaking the Truth of Sex: Moore & Gebbieís Lost Girls." Mark Rogers: "Capturing Darkness: Comics and the Film Noir Style." Natsu Onoda: "Osamu Tezuka and the Star System: Importing Hollywood Film into Manga."
11:00-12:00	Plenary Session 1: "Comic Art 'in Bounds'- the Case of Southern Africa." John Lent (Temple University, USA)
12:00-1:30	Catered Lunch for participants
1:30-3:00	Panel #2 - COMICS VIS-A-VIS LITERATURE M. Thomas Inge: "Two Boys from the Twin Cities: Jay Gatsby and Charlie Brown." Deborah Shamoon: "Focalization and Narrative Voice in the Novels and Comics of Uchida Shungiku." Justin Colussy-Estes: "Unwitting Cartoonist: Annie Vallotton, the Good News Bible, and Cartooning Scripture"
3:15-4:15	Plenary Session 2: "The Limits of the 'Permissive Society': Images of Children and Sexuality in Underground Comix." Roger Sabin (United Kingdom)
4:30-6:00	Panel #3 - READING BARKS READING MARX READING DISNEY Don Ault: "Barks on Marx, Part II: The Social Phenomenology of 'Paperino's' Negative Utopia." John Ronan: "How To Read How To Read Donald Duck's Donald Duck." Joseph Witek: "The Creation of Carl Barks: The Disney Corporation and 'The Good Artist'."
6:30-8:00	The ICAF International Mixer - All invited

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
8:00-8:30	Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00	Panel #4 - HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY IN COMICS Fedwa Malti-Douglas: "French Comic Strips and the Great War: Becassine." Allen Douglas: "Atrocity Strips: Joe Sacco and the Horrors of the Twentieth Century." Ben Towle: "Based on a True Story."
10:15-11:30	Panel #5 - TEACHING [WITH] COMICS Anne Thalheimer: "Comics Out Of Bounds... and Into Backpacks: Interdisciplinarity and Teaching Comics." Guy Spielmann: "A Case Study of Teaching [with] Comics."
11:30-12:00	Future ICAFs: A Brainstorming Session
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:30	Panel #6 - COMICS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY Ayhan Akman: "From Cultural Schizophrenia to Modernist Binarism: Transformation of Cartoons and Identities in Turkey (1930-1975)." Hector Fernandez-L’Hoeste: "The Ultimate Mexican Alterity: The Case of Kaliman, el Hombre Increible."
2:45-3:45	Plenary Session 3:"ESCAPE Artists, Then and Now." Paul Gravett (United Kingdom)
4:00-5:00	Panel #7 - CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON FRANCOPHONE BD Mark McKinney: "Experimenting with History and Form." Nhu-Hoa Nguyen: "Blues (1979), by Chantal Montellier: A French New Realist View on Modern Society."
5:00-6:00	Plenary Session 4: "The Fumetto Comix Festival." Sabine Witkowski (Switzerland)
6:30-8:00	Dinner break
8:00-9:00	ICAF/Expo Crossover Event: A Conversation with Art Spiegelman

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
10:00-11:00	Artist Presentation: OuBaPo and comics formalism (Matt Madden, Tom Hart and Jason Little
11:15-12:15	Artist Presentation: Willem (The Netherlands / France)
12:15-1:30	Lunch break
1:30-2:30	A Conversation with Los Bros Hernandez
2:45-3:45	SPX Comes to ICAF: "What’s So Special About Finnish Comics?" Johana Rojola (Finland)
4:00-4:45	SPX COMES TO ICAF: David Lasky on minicomix
5:00-6:30	New Voices in Comics Roundtable Featuring Nick Bertozzi, Greg Cook, Kevin Huizenga, John Kerschbaum, and David Lasky

2000

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
8:30-9:00	Welcome Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
9:00-10:30	Panel One  Critical Traditions -- Moderated by Charles Hatfield Bart Beaty (University of Calgary, Canada):  "Wertham Faces His Critics: Understanding the Postwar Comics Debate" Libbie McQuillan (University of Glasgow, Scotland):  "Trends in the B.D. Critical Field: a Brief History of Time"  Mark C. Rogers (Walsh University, Ohio, USA):  "Policing The Comics 2000: Revisiting British Cultural Studies and Comics"
11:00-12:00	Panel Two  Comics, Revolution, and Empire -- Moderated by Cécile Danehy Mark McKinney (Miami University, Ohio, USA):  "Propaganda for Empire: Colonial Exhibitions and Expeditions in Alain Saint-Ogan's Zig et Puce" Ana Merino (University of Pittsburgh, USA):  "The Cuban Comic Strip and Its Ideological Articulation During The Revolution"
12:00-12:30	Presentation  Charles M. Schulz: An Appreciation, by M. Thomas Inge -- Introduced by Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
12:30-2:00	LUNCH BREAK
2:00-3:30	Roundtable Discussion  Comics and Semiotics/Semiology -- Moderated by Jeffrey Miller Featuring Alvise Mattozzi (Italy; currently visiting scholar, USA), Jeffrey Miller (Utica College, USA), Christina Peñamarin Beristain (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) and Guy Spielmann (Georgetown University, USA).
3:30-5:00	Panel Three  Neglected Roots: Recovering Comics' Past -- Moderated by Guy Spielmann Beatrice Marechal (EHESS University, Paris, France):  "'Singular Stories of the Terashima Neighborhood': A Japanese Autobiographical Comic" John F. Ronan (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA):  "Getting Around: The Underground Press Syndicate and American Underground Comix" Paul P. Somers, Jr. (Michigan State University):  "Nast, Keppler, and the Two Traditions in American Editorial Cartooning."
5:15-6:15	Guest Artist  Alice Chang (Taiwan, R.O.C.)  -- Introduced by Jeffrey Miller
6:15	Reception Held in the Connecticut Room

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
9:00-10:30	Panel Four  Reimagining the Past  -- Moderated by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. Jose Alaniz (University of California, Berkeley, USA):  "Into Her Dead Body: Moore & Campbell's From Hell" M. Thomas Inge (Randolph-Macon College, USA):  "Poe and the Comics Connection"
11:00-12:30	Panel Five   Comics in/as New Media -- Moderated by Charles Hatfield Jeremy Allen (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia):  "The New Media Revolution: Overseas Comic Creators & the Web" Jessica Fure (University of Baltimore, USA):  "Weaving the Universe: The Hypertextual Nature of Comics" Michael G. Rhode (National Museum of Health and Medicine, USA) and Ray Bottorff Jr. (Private Scholar, USA): "The Grand Comics Database (GCD): An Evolving Research Tool" Respondent: Scott McCloud (Reinventing Comics; USA)
12:30-2:00	LUNCH BREAK
2:00-3:00	Keynote Speech   Christian Gasser (Switzerland) on "Comic Mutanten" -- Introduced by Mark Nevins
3:15-4:15	Guest Artist   Anke Feuchtenberger (Germany)  -- Introduced by Mark Nevins
4:30-5:30	Guest Artist  Martin tom Dieck (Germany)  -- Introduced by Mark Nevins
5:30-8:00	DINNER BREAK
8:00-9:30	JOINT ICAF / EXPO PROGRAM  Bill Griffith and Kim Deitch (USA): "From the Underground to the Mainstream—Looking Back, Looking Ahead"  -- Moderated by Joseph Witek (Comic Books as History; USA); Introduced by Gene Kannenberg, Jr.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
10:30-11:45	JOINT ICAF / EXPO PROGRAM  Guests of Honor  Philippe Dupuy & Charles Berberian (France) -- Facilitated by Bart Beaty; Introduced by Mark Nevins
11:45-1:00	LUNCH BREAK
1:00-2:00	JOINT ICAF / EXPO PROGRAM  "Expo Comes to ICAF"  A Conversation with Will Eisner and Jeff Smith (USA) -- Introduced by Charles Hatfield
2:00-4:45	PROGRAMMING BREAK
4:45-5:45	JOINT ICAF / EXPO PROGRAM  Artist Presentation  "Québécois Alternative Comics—Underground Expressionism" by Henriette Valium, Simon Bossé, and Eric Braun  -- Moderated by Jamie Salomon; Introduced by Mark Nevins
6:00-7:30	JOINT ICAF / EXPO PROGRAM  Round Table Discussion  Third Annual New Voices in Cartooning -- Moderated by Mark Nevins Featuring: Renée French, Dean Haspiel, Jason Little, Brian Ralph, and Craig Thompson

1999

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
8:30-9:00	Welcome --Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
9:00-10:30	Panel One Creators in Conversation with Tradition--Moderated by Cécile Danehy Marc Singer (University of Maryland, College Park): "On Byron, Shelley and Crazy Jane: Romanticism and Modernity in the Comics of Grant Morrison" Dan Cross (Belleville Area College): "Perverts, Weenies, and Other Losers:  Ethos in Autobiographical Comics" Ana Merino (University of Pittsburgh): "Inodoro Pereyra, A 'Gaucho' in the Pampa of Paper and Ink: Folkloric and Literary Intertextuality and its Reformulations in Argentinean Comics"
11:00-12:00	Presentation "Outside Influence/Local Colour: the Australian Small Press," Michael Hill (lecturer in visual communication in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building of the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and partner in Graber Hill, publisher of the comic Black Light Angels)--Introduced by Cécile Danehy
12:00-1:30	LUNCH BREAK
1:30-3:00	Panel Two Comics in Discourse, Discourse in Comics--Moderated by Jeffrey Miller Eric Weitzel (University of California - Santa Barbara): "Radicalizing the Mainstream: Pop Cultural Pleasures, Gertrude Stein, and the Comic Arts" Anne N Thalheimer (University of Delaware): "Terrorists, Bitches, and Dykes: Late 20th Century Lesbian Comix" Rachel Bowen (Georgetown University):  "By Pleasure Unbound: Textual Subjectivity in Pornographic Comics"
3:30-5:00	Panel Three Comics Industries: Creation, Publication, Consumption--Moderated by Charles Hatfield Stanford A. Carpenter (Rice University; Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution): "Finding Sources for Blackjacks, Vamps, and Speedsters: An Ethnography of the Creative Process" Mark C. Rogers (Walsh University): "The High Cost Of Fandom: The American Comic Book Industry from Mass Medium to Niche Medium"
5:30-6:00	Presentation "Rising Heroes: The Comics Art Initiative for Youth Entrepreneurs, ComicsWork! International" Shawn Beilfuss, CWI Program/Art Director (Michigan)--Introduced by Cécile Danehy
6:30-7:30	Plenary Lecture Pascal Lefèvre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée (Belgium), "Narration in Comics"--Introduced by Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
7:30	Reception Hosted by the Belgian Embassy (Connecticut Room)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
9:00-10:30	Panel Four Historical Perspectives from Different Cultures--Moderated by Jeffrey Miller John A. Lent (Temple University): "Long Before Tezuka: Some Beginnings of Asian Comic Art" Mike Kidson (Independent Scholar, UK): "Permanence vs. Ephemerality: Pre-Industrial Revolution Image Printing Techniques and their Impact on the Development of the Comic Strip" Libbie McQuillan (Glasgow University, Scotland): "Between the Sheets at Pilote: 1968-1973"
11:00-12:30	Panel Five Examining the Comics Form--Moderated by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. Joost Pollmann (Lead Organizer, Haarlem Comics Festival, Netherlands): "Shaping Sounds" Alvise Mattozzi (University of Florence, Italy): "Time in Comix, Timin' Comics" Joseph "Rusty" Witek (Stetson University): "The Arrow and the Grid: Creating the Comics Reader"
12:30-2:00	LUNCH BREAK
2:00-3:00	Plenary Lecture Anne Rubenstein, Allegheny College: "What We Can Learn from Mexican Censors"--Introduced by Charles Hatfield
3:30-4:30	Guest Artists Jis and Trino (Mexico)--Introduced by Charles Hatfield
4:30-7:30	BREAK
7:30-9:00	JOINT ICAF / SPX PROGRAM Jeff Smith (USA), "Comics and Storytelling"--Introduced by Charles Hatfield

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
10:30-11:30	JOINT ICAF / SPX PROGRAM  Guest Artist Charles Burns (USA)--Introduced by Mark Nevins
11:45-1:00	JOINT ICAF / SPX PROGRAM  GUEST OF HONOR Eddie Campbell (Scotland)--Introduced by Mark Nevins
1:00-2:00	LUNCH BREAK
2:00-2:30	JOINT ICAF / SPX PROGRAM  Guest Artist Ellen Forney, "I Was Seven in '75"--Introduced by Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
2:30-6:00	BREAK
6:00-7:30	JOINT ICAF / SPX PROGRAM  Round Table Discussion New Voices in Cartooning II--Moderated by Mark Nevins Featuring: Jessica Abel, Brian Biggs, Jordan Crane, Jason Lutes, Matt Madden, and Steven Weissman

1998

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
9:00-9:30	Welcome - Guy Spielmann
9:30-11:00	Panel:  Difference and Stereotyping in Comics Moderated by Charles Hatfield Dorothy Betz (Georgetown U.): "Asterix on the Road : Why Foreigners are Funny" William H. Foster (Naugatuck Valley C.C.) : "The Changing Image of Blacks in Comics 1890s - 1990s" Anne N. Thalheimer (U. Delaware): "What Does a White Dyke Write Like?: Borders and Borderlands in Roberta Gregory's Naughty Bits and Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For."
11:15-12:15	Plenary lecture John Lent (Temple U.): "Comic Art of Asia : An Invisible Giant Awakened" Moderated by Mark Nevins
12:15-1:30	LUNCH BREAK
2:00-3:00	Panel: Questions of reading and Audience Moderated by Gene Kannenberg Jonathan Frome (U. Florida):  "Identification in Comics" John Ronan (U. Florida):  "Deleuze and Comics: Image, Repetition, Representation, Series"
3:15-4:15	Plenary lecture Joseph "Rusty" Witek (Stetson U.), author of Comic Books as History: "American Comics Discourse: A Historical Survey"  Moderated  by Gene Kannenberg
4:30-5:30	ROUNDTABLE COMICS MUSEUMS  With Mort Walker, Abby Brennan Roeloffs, Fiona Russell, and Jean-Pierre Mercier Moderated by Jeff Miller
5:30-8:00	BREAK
8:00-10:00	Special Evening Program : The World of Arab Comics Plenary lecture Allen Douglas & Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Indiana U.), authors of Arab Comic Strips : "Arab Comics: Between Children's Literature and Adult Politics" GUEST ARTIST : SLIM (Algeria/France) Moderated by Jeff Miller

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
9:00-10:30	Panel: Recovering History in Comics and Cartoons Moderated by Cécile Danehy Bart Beaty (McGill U.): "Wertham on Hamlet" Randall Clark (Pfeiffer U.):  "The Mouse and the Movies" Ana Merino (U. of Pittsburgh): Two Little Girls and their Ideological Perspectives, or: How Comics Represent Childhood: Little Orphan Annie and Conservative Discourse vs. Little Lulu, the First Feminist"
10:45-12:15	Panel: Comics, Transgression and Cultural Argument Moderated by Gene Kannenberg Alvise Mattozzi (U. Sienna, Italy): "A socio-semiotic approach to underground comix" Libbie McQuillan (U. Glasgow, Scotland): "Tradition and transgression: The Laughter of Claire Bretecher" Heather Sinclair (Pratt Institute): "Julie Doucet’s Dirty Plotte"
12:15-1:30	LUNCH BREAK
1:30-2:30	GUEST ARTISTS : STRIP CORE (Slovenia). Igor Prassel & Jacob Klemencic Moderated  by Gene Kannenberg
2:45-4:15	Panel: Comics at the Margins Moderated  by Charles Hatfield  Jose Alaniz (U.C. Berkeley):  "Towards a History of a Stalled Medium:Comics in Russia" Tom Furtwangler (U. Washington) "The Shadow Industry :  Health EducationComics and Fotonovelas" Michael G. Rhode (Nat’l Museum of Health and Medicine): "Hermann Faber: Civil War medical illustrator as one-time caricaturist"
4:30-5:30	GUEST ARTISTS : AMOK (France) Yvan Alagbé & Olivier Marboeuf. Moderated by Mark Nevins and Guy Spielmann
5:30-6:30	BREAK
6:30-8:00	JOINT ICAF / SPX PROGRAM  Plenary lecture Jean-Pierre Mercier (French National Museum of Comics and Visual Arts (CNBDI). "1972-97, 25 Years of Innovation in French Comics".  Moderated by Mark Nevins and Guy Spielmann.
8:00-9:15	JOINT ICAF / SPX PROGRAM  A Dialogue between Will Eisner  and Frank Miller Moderated by Charles Hatfield

7:00-8:00

JOINT ICAF / SPX PROGRAM  GUEST ARTIST : DYLAN HORROCKS on New Zealand Comics  Moderated  by Gene Kannenberg