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Join me at Transitions II: Comica Symposium 2011
Posted: November 2, 2011
This year’s Comica Festival is upon us now with a packed programme of events, exhibitions, Comica Conversations, lots of launch parties, our Comiket Independent Comics Fair, and much, much more. The schedule is constantly being updated over on the Comica website, but I wanted to alert you to this Saturday’s second Comica Symposium 2011: Transitions II at Birkbeck, University of London, this coming Saturday, November 5th. This conference is academic but accessible, serious but entertaining, bigger and better than last year’s highly successful first foray. There are so many fascinating presentations that ace organiser Tony Venezia has had to run parallel sessions in the morning. And the best thing about it this year is that it’s on a Saturday, so more people can get to it, and it’s still completely free, including wine and snacks from 6-7pm. Yes, there’s still time for you to catch some fireworks after!
I am really looking forward to this full day. I’ll be chairing one of the morning sessions from 10.30am and joining Julia Round, Roger Sabin and special American guest and Keynote Speaker Kent Worcester in the closing Response/Plenary Session. There’s a wonderful variety of subjects being discussed here, something for every taste in comics, from manga, Arab comics and Silver Age superheroes, to Hamlet adaptations, Rock ‘n’ Roll in comics, Motion Comics and Squirrel Girl! Some brilliant comics creators will also be participating including webcomics wizard Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, experimenter extraordinaire Simon Grennan and Karrie Fransman, discussing her imminent graphic novel The House That Groaned. You can download the complete schedule and abstracts at the dedicated Comica Symposium 2011 webpage.
Come and share your passion and fascination for comics with other enquiring explorers of sequential art and graphic narratives. Take part in the future of Comics Studies. Doors open from 9.30am and the location is Rooms B36 and B04, Main Building, Malet Street/Torrington Square, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX. Be sure to register right now for your free place with Tony by emailing transitions.symposium[at]gmail.com - and I look forward to seeing you there!
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