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Comics & Medicine: The Sequential Art of Illness
Posted: June 7, 2011
It’s an honour and a buzz to be invited to Comics & Medicine: The Sequential Art of Illness, a conference at Northwestern University, Chicago on June 9th to 11th, to give the opening Keynote Introduction and to chair one session of papers on Epileptic by David B. (who I am interviewing in person in London on June 30th). This American conference is the sequel to the first ever conference on this flourishing sector of graphic novels which was organised in London last year by Ian Williams of Graphic Medicine. Joining me this year will be special guest speakers Phoebe Gloeckner, brilliant author of A Child’s Life, Scott McCloud, guru theorist famed for Understanding Comics, and David Small, children’s book illustrator turned graphic novelist whose Stitches was one of the most unforgettable autobiographical comics of the last few years. The good news is that Scott McCloud’s lecture is open to the public on Saturday June 11th from 3-5pm. The Conference is holding a closing reception and book signing, to which all are welcome, at the sequential art emporium Quimby’s Comics, 1854 W. North Avenue, Chicago. I’m looking forward to meeting and making friends on my first trip to that “Free and easy town, brassy, breezy town”, Chicago. Comics really are the best medicine!
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