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ICAF (International Comic Arts Festival) 2004
Place
Holiday Inn Select Bethesda Bethesda, MD (in conjunction with the Small Press Expo 2004)
Date
Thursday - Saturday, September 30th - October 2nd, 2004
Presentation
September 30
Thursday
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¡±
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¡±
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"
Special Announcement:
The John A. Lent Scholarship competition for ICAF 2005
Guest Speaker DR. JOHN A. LENT (USA) and XU YING (CHINA):
"The Masters Speak: Chinese Cartoonist Profiles"
October 1
Friday
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 Fernandez L¡¯Hoeste (Georgia State University):
............¡°Flopi Bach: A Benevolent Misogyny?¡±
..........- Santiago Fernandez Lorenzo (Universidad del Valle de Toluca):
............¡°Analysis of the graphic discourse in ¡®Valentina¡¯¡±
PANEL 5: RECONSIDERING CARICATURE -- Moderated by Cecile 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¡±
PANEL 6: COMICS VIS-A-VIS "HIGH ART": QUESTIONS OF RECEPTION -- Moderated by Marc Singer
..........- Jose Alaniz (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¡±
Guest Speaker JOHN BENSON (USA) (Introduced by Mark Nevins)
ICAF AND THE SMALL PRESS EXPO JOINTLY PRESENT:
Guest Artist STEVE BRODNER (Introduced by Charles Hatfield)
October 2
Saturday
Guest Artists TOBIAS SCHALKEN and STEFAN VAN DINTHER (Netherlands) (Introduced by Mark Nevins)
Guest Artist LILY LAU LEE LEE (Hong Kong)
Guest Artist MIGUELANXO PRADO (Spain) (Introduced by Ana Merino)
LIT INTO COMICS I:
"Masterpiece Comics," by Guest Artist R. SIKORYAK
LIT INTO COMICS II:
Guest Artist PAUL KARASIK
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
.

Photos of ICAF