Archive for September, 2008

Superman versus Uncle Sam: Free Speech in the Balance (Commonwealth Times)

Posted by on September 20, 2008 * Comments(1)

CT: Gentlemen, how do you think the comic arts will fare against the convergence of different forms of media with the Internet? MTI: The graphic novel is the next important art form. It’s not necessarily going to replace fiction, drama and poetry. They will exist alongside one another and graphic novels will flourish as it […]

category: Comics, Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics    

Goodbye Movable Type (Discourse Chronicle)

Posted by on September 18, 2008 * Comments(2)

[Discourse Chronicle is moving off Movable Type to WordPress! I regret not being able to take full advantage of Movable Type’s customization features with Dreamweaver, but time simply does not let me explore as much as I would like. Please change bookmarks appropriately and I look forward to hearing from my regulars at my new […]

category: Life    

Scott McCloud Speaking at BGSU (BGSU Arts)

Posted by on September 4, 2008 * Comments(0)

October 24, 2008 – ARTalks: Comics: A Medium in Transition by Scott McCloud, cartoonist and theorist. 6:30pm, Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater. [Sweet! I always wanted to listen to Scott McCloud speak about comics (regardless of his sometimes questionable worth in academia), but I never imagined he would come to BGSU. Maybe I could get him […]

category: Comics, Life, Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics    

Acceptance [Comic Book in Popular Culture] (Discourse Chronicle)

Posted by on September 4, 2008 * Comments(1)

I am pleased to inform you that your proposal is accepted for presentation at the Comic Book in Popular Culture Conference to be held on the Bowling Green State University Main Campus in Bowling Green, Ohio, October 24-25, 2008. NOTE: The list of papers above is a tentative composition of your panel. The finalized panels […]

category: Acceptances, Comics, Life, Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics