Graphic Possibilities engaged with comics through two interrelated branches, critical inquiry and engaged pedagogy, as a means of bringing together faculty and graduate students with current and burgeoning interests in comic studies. During the fall semester, the workshop focused on how scholar-practitioners engage with comics. In September 2019, we welcomed John Jennings (UC Riverside) and Stacey Robinson (the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign), two artist-scholars that work together under the moniker Black Kirby. An Afrofuturist inspired remixing of comic book visual culture; Black Kirby explores the intersection of black culture and history to forge an aesthetic language that investigates the historical trauma and liberation ideology central to Afrofuturism.
2019-09-30