Comics and Visual Culture - CSUN Symposium

10/13/2024

https://news.csun.edu/event/visioning-liberated-futures-a-talk-by-and-with-ly-xinzhen-zhangsun-lydia-x-z-brown/

Happening soon at CSUN:

Help celebrate the launching of CSUN's new Disability Studies Minor by attending this event with famed disability rights activist Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn (Lydia X. Z. Brown)!

The new Minor in Disability Studies is pleased to announce our official launch! In celebration, we kick off our first semester with our keynote speaker Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn (Lydia X. Z. Brown) (they/them), an attorney, disability rights activist, founder of the Autistic People of Color Fund, Dire...

09/20/2024

This happens a week from now, and I'm gearing up. Psyched!

CSUN friends, tell everyone you know. Thanks!

07/18/2024

Now posted to the blog of the International Journal of Comic Art:

My review of Paul Gravett and company's (stunning) exhibition "Asian Comics," currently on view at the Bowers Museum in southern California:

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2024/07/exhibition-review-asian-comics.html

My thanks to Mike Rhode for helping me get this done, shaped up, and formatted!

Review and photos by Charles Hatfield Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form. Paul Gravett (curator). Santa Ana, California: Bowers Museum, ...

04/25/2024

At my school, TOMORROW!

Two of the greatest comics artists ever are coming to CSUN to chat with students and answer questions! Come on out and ask some!

Man, I do love these comics.

04/23/2024

Coming to CSU Northridge THIS THURSDAY, April 25, two of America's greatest comics artists ever:

Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez!

https://www.csun.edu/humanities/comics/events/love-and-rockets-conversation-gilbert-and-jaime-hernandez

Without the inspiration of these two artists, I would not be a comics scholar or a CSUN prof. Come join the conversation! ❤

04/19/2024

Dr. Johnathan Flowers and I will be in conversation about disability and comics two Wednesdays from now! Free and open to the public!

https://www.csun.edu/humanities/comics/events/disability-andin-comics-conversation

04/13/2024

Coming to CSUN April 25!

Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm Location: Noski Auditorium Cost: Free Creators of the landmark comic book series revisit CSUN! On Thursday, April 25, at 4:30 to 6:30pm, artists and authors Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez, co-creators of the landmark comic book series Love and Rock...

04/12/2024

presents a conversation with Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez! April 25, 2024, at 4:30pm, at CSUN's Noski Auditorium. FREE and open to the public!

Nothing like talking to the creators of the USA's greatest comic book series ever.

03/09/2024

https://www.bowers.org/index.php/current-exhibition/asian-comics-evolution-of-an-art-form

A staggering exhibition of comic art from some two dozen countries in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. Of course, there is the expected emphasis on Japanese manga, and the show does a wonderful job there, but there are also incredible works from, e.g., India, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, on and on. More than 400 pieces are included, and the organization and graphic and spatial design of the exhibition are wonderful.

Comics friends, if you are anywhere within a day's travel of the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California, do yourself a favor: go there and budget a whole day. You won't be sorry.

Curated by Paul Gravett, organized by the Barbican, and launched in Rome in 2017, this ever-evolving show is one of a very few internationally touring exhibitions of comic art, and it's a doozy.

 The Power of Photography exhibition features a selection of iconic images, compiled by pioneering collector and gallerist Peter...

03/05/2021

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm Location: Zoom Webinar Cost: Free Register for this event In honor of Will Eisner Week, Comics@CSUN co-sponsors a webinar on graphic novels and the changing comics field  On Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at 4:00-5:30 pm PST, Comics@CSUN will host a free Zoo...