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Revolutionary Comics: Revolutionaries in Our Comics
3/30/24 - 2:00 pm, Room 211

From The Eternaut and Golden Age Superman to the more recent Immortal Hulk, comics have always been a vehicle for politics and advocacy. Writers Cecil Castellucci (Shifting Earth), Sherri L. Smith (James Cameron’s Avatar: The High Ground), and JR Hughto (That Distant Fire) and comics critics Daniel Jun Kim (PopMythology.com) and Nat Yonce (Collective Action Comics podcast) speak to the comics and makers who inspired them to mix revolutionary ideas, themes, and plots into their own work.

Who’s Teaching Who?: Teaching Artists/Creators Who Teach
3/31/24 - 2:00pm, Room 213CD

To be an artist is to be a lifelong learner. We apprentice to the craft by doing and learn how to improve project by project. Many artists also teach as part of this cycle of growth. What does it mean to be a teaching working artist? How does teaching help and grow one’s own practice? What are the joys and pitfalls of teaching? How does one transfer knowledge to emerging artists? What can you learn from being educators to the next generation of working artists? Ryka Aoki (Light from Uncommon Stars), Cecil Castellucci (Shifting Earth), Cory Doctorow (The Bezzle), Sherri L. Smith (Pearl), Steven T. Seagle (Man of Action), and Sarah Watson (The Bold Type) discuss the value of being creators who are also teachers.