World Meets Image: The Graphic Novel
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Graphic Narrative as Borderland in Leopold Maurer’s Miller & Pynchon (2009 Vienna). Laura McLary, University of Portland
After briefly describing the developing comics scene in Austria, I will discuss how the graphic novel Miller & Pynchon (2009) by Austrian comic artist Leopold Maurer explores the tension between narrative and non-narrative elements of graphic narratives by conceptualizing this tension as a spatial no-man’s land.
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The Man Behind the Mask: The Secret Identity as Authorship, Escape, and Iconography. Nancy White, University of Washington, Seattle
The secret identity functions as a form of authorship and a means of escape, permitting the superhero, through the use of the iconic “mask,” to traverse two worlds, while at the same time creating a fundamentally fractured and conflicted identity.
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Victorian Graphic: Nineteenth Century Visual Culture and Alan Moore's From Hell. Lara Rutherford, University of California, Santa Barbara
This paper investigates how Alan Moore uses the intersection of text and picture to perform an “autopsy” of the late Victorian period in From Hell. I argue that Moore’s visual depiction of the Whitechapel murders coincides with a major shift in visual culture in the 1880s.
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