Archetypes v Stereotypes: Comics and Graphic Novels
V&A Symposium
(PDF flyer attached)
Friday 14 November 2008 –10 .00-18.00: Victoria & Albert Museum, Lecture
Theatre
A one-day symposium, jointly organised by the Victoria & Albert Museum with
the annual Comica Festival
(http://bandedessinee.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/comica-festival-2008/),
that examines the formation and function of archetypes and sterotypes in
British, American and European comics and graphic novels. Themes include
racial, sexual, social and political stereotypes.
Programme
10.00 Coffee and Registration
10.30 Welcome and Introduction - John Meriton
10.35 Ian Rakoff: Art of the Century - Stereotypes, Prejudice and Grammar in
Frame-Culture (Film and Comics)
11.20 Charles Dierick, Director of the Hergé Museum: Tintin in the Congo and
Racial Stereotypes in Comics
12.05 Dougie Braithwaite, artist on Justice, interviewed by Richard Reynolds,
author of Superheroes: A Modern Mythology, about changing attitudes and
representations from Superman to Watchmen and beyond
12.40 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Eric Fernie, Courtauld Institute: Women's Roles in Post-War Comics from
Jane to Dylan Dog
14.45 Pat Mills, writer for UK and US comics, and Derek Liverpool, researcher:
Black, female and other minority characters in modern British and American
comics. Chaired by Paul Gravett
15.30 Coffee break
15.50 From Hippies to Yuppies : Posy Simmonds on writing and drawing the
British classes
16.35 Women Creators and Characters Today: Lise Myhre, strip cartoonist of
Goth-Girl Nemi in Metro, and Asia Alfasi, Muslim autobiographical graphic
novelist, interviewed by Corinne Pearlman
17.15 Plenary Discussion
18.00 Close
£40, concessions available
In association with the Comica Festival
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http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/courses/conferences/index.html
For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits
please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2008 at
http://www.arlis.org.uk/
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