9.15-10.00 Registration
10.00-11.00 Keynote: Jacques de Loustal
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 1A: Road Trips CHAIR: CHRIS MURRAY
Martin Lund: Highway to Hell
Sylvie Blum-Ried: “Flaming Iguanas on the road”
Lisa Macklem: A Journey into the Past
Panel 1B: Adaptations CHAIR: JOAN ORMROD
Joanna Kucharska: Your Ticket to the Multiverse, Princess
Andrea Catalina
& Monica Bottez: Migratory Classics: A Study of Literary Adaptations of Comics
Yiva Lindberg: Swedish Female Cartoonists travels into literature
Panel 1C: Independents CHAIR: ROGER SABIN
David Huxley: A Voyage through a Collector’s Brain
Sharad Sharma: Grassroots Comics
Dominic Grace: Failed Journeys in Ed the Happy Clown
13.00-14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.15 Panel 2A: A Duck and a Rat… and a Duck Again? The Voyages of Steve Gerber and His Characters
CHAIR: JULIA ROUND
Ian Gordon: The Return of Howard the Duck?
Paul Williams: Social Critique, Commerce and Creativity in Steve Gerber’s Stewart the Rat (1980)
Panel 2B: Persepolis CHAIR: DAVID HUXLEY
Marc Singer: Persepolis and the Neoliberal Self
Amir Arian: Mapping a Graphic Territory: A Geophilosophical Reading of Persepolis
Panel 6: DELETED
Shannon Mortimore-Smith: The Object of my Affection
Panel 2C: Visual Practice CHAIR: CATRIONA MACLEOD
Louisa Parker The Artist as Soujourner: The value of visual practice in making a
space for feminism
Leonie Brialey Voyeur du Voyage
15.15-15.45 Break
15.45-17.15 Panel 3A: Trans- Media CHAIR: LAURENCE GROVE
Nancy Pedri: The Immigrant’s Plight: Photography in Shaun Tan’s ‘The Arrival’
Tasos Anastasiades: Creating Comics Beyond Conventional Drawing
Debarghya Sanyal Reading Comics: Of Vessels and Dimensions
Panel 3B: Exile CHAIR: REBECCA SCHERR
Dragos Manea: Planets of Exile: Displacement and Defamiliarization in Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga (2012 –)
Mihaela Precup: Stasis and Dislocation in Bunjevac’s Fatherland
Jesus Jimenez-Varea: Two Young Travellers and Their Ideologies: Little Orphan Annie vs. Tintin
Panel 3C: Journeys CHAIR: JOAN ORMROD
Chris York: Exit Wounds and the (super)heroic Journey
Paddy Johnston: From Cartoon Books to Image and back again
Julia Round: Revenant Landscapes and Readers in The Walking Dead
Panel 3D: Travel CHAIR: CHRIS MURRAY
Simon Grennan
& Roger Sabin: Being at home abroad: Londoners ‘ong continong’ (on the continent) in the 19th century comics of Marie Duval
Michael Connerty: Travelogues, Empire and the Early British Comic Strip
Ariel Kahn: Inside Out; Feminist Subjectivities and the Representation of the Journey in Autobiographical Comics By Jewish Comics Artists
17.30-19.00 Drinks reception
9.30-11.30 Panel 4A: Superheroes CHAIR: DAVID HUXLEY
Thomas Jurney: The American Supervillain as Proponent of Civil Law
Lucia Jackson: From The Killing Joke to Killer Style: How moving to Burnside transformed Batgirl
Roberto Bartual: Jack Kirby’s psychedelic voyage. How the King of Comics influenced the psychedelic movement
Panel 4B: National Identity CHAIR: WILL GRADY
Alison Mandaville: The Haji Goes to Mecca: Islam, Movement, and the World in the Satirical Journal Molla Nasraddin
Aaron Humphrey: Emotion and Anonymity in Australian Asylum-Seeker Comics
Kelly Kanayama: ‘No More Leprechaun Suits’: Irishness and the Performative Body in the Comics of Garth Ennis
Jess Burton Voyages dans l’Espace: Space travel in Comics from Les Pionniers de l’Esperance to L’Espace Réel
Panel 4C: Auto/Biography CHAIR: IAN GORDON
Rikke Platz Cortsen: Revisiting past places – space and place as tools for artist biography. Olsza Malgorzata: A Boy’s Journey into Independence
Kat Lombard-Cook: Mapping the Journey: The Cartography of Autobiography
Rebecca Scherr: Mapping the body: migration, sexuality, and Jewish women’s bodies in Leela Corman’s Unterzakhn
Panel 4D: Gender CHAIR: JULIA ROUND
Nicola Streeten: I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night Sylvia Plath
Penelope Mendonca: Conceptionmoons, babycations, Viking invasions and the quest for motherhood: travel, romance and pregnancy in comics and graphic novels
Rachel Miller: Bedroom Voyages: Riot Grrrls, Ghost Worlds, Teen Angels, and the Ephemeral Archive
Aline de Alvarenga Zouvi: The Explorations of Space in Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical
comics
11.30-12.00 Break
12.00-13.30 Panel 5A: Audiences CHAIR: PAUL WILLIAMS
Joris Vermassen: “Wolfgang Iser and the graphic novel: the blanks as a necessary condition for the reader’s journey.”
Yasmin Stefanov-King: Perceptions of family and gender roles have travelled and progressed over the past 100 years, but to what extent is this journey reflected within comics for the very young?
John Harnett: Visual Dystaxia in Chris Ware’s Building Stories: The Diegetic Applications of Navigating a Panoptic Story-World.
Panel 5B: Time & Movement CHAIR: ROGER SABIN
Joan Ormrod: The Post-Colonial Enterprise of Trillium: Space, Time, Language
Jesse Prevo: Any Which Way: The depiction of travel in comics
Ronnie Scott: Art in Space. Alternatives to Narrative
Panel 5C: National Identity 2 CHAIR: CHRIS MURRAY
Marisol Rodriguez: Rarotonga or the exotic idea of women’s empowerment in a vintage Mexican comic
Roberta Ferreira
& Ivan Lima Gomes: Comics in the tropics or How Buster Brown and comics language travelled and were adapted in a Brazilian illustrated magazine for kids.
Aarnoud Rommens: Graphiating Resistance: Remediation, Abstraction and the Politics of Adaptation in the Work of Alberto Breccia
Panel 5D: Medium and Message CHAIR: DAVID HUXLEY
Joseph Alnether: Hellboy
Paul Davies: Representing Experience in Comics: Carnet de Voyage
William Ashbaugh: “Different Medium Explore the Messages of Mobile Suit Gundam”
13.30-14.45 Lunch
14.45-16.15 Panel 6A: Health and the Body CHAIR: MIHAELA PRECUP
R Finn: Journeys to the centre of the self: Comics and mental health.
Agnes Peysson-Zeiss: A Visual Voyage Through Trauma: Genocide, Mass-massacres and Resilience
Christina Koch: Graphic Pathographies: Traversing the Body as Landscape
Panel 6B: Classic Voyages CHAIR: JOAN ORMROD
Luisa Buck: Why Homer still matters: The Odyssey and the British political cartoon
Ralph Sanders: The Southern Road To Heaven. Pilgrim’s Progress: The Graphic Novel
Ana-Maria Gavrila: Maps, Myths and Multimodal Storytelling. Refiguring the Epic Narrative of the Early Earth
Jörn Ahrens: Voyager of Crisis: Winshluss’ Pinocchio and His Journey to the Heart
of Modernity
Panel 6C: Form CHAIR: ROGER SABIN
Greice Schneider: Visual journalism and comics storytelling
John Miers: Visual metaphor’s voyage from vagueness to symbolic status
Simon Grennan: Journeys of the self: Marion’s partial ‘mediagenius’ and the motive reader in comparative theories of intersubjectivity
Panel 6D: Perspectives CHAIR: JULIA ROUND
Tiffany Hong: “A Matter of Perspective”: Mission, Location, and Return in Ales Kot’s Zero
Benjamin Garfield: A Psychotic Journey Between Worlds and Off the Page. Deadpool Kills Comic Books
Rae Hancock Looking Inward: using comics and graphic novels in the classroom to
stimulate self-reflective spiritual journeys
11.30-13.00 ONLINE LIVE FORUM DISCUSSION: Charlie Hebdo
NOT at conference venue. Please log in remotely from wherever you are (web address will be provided) and join us in this discussion/response to delegates’ proposed papers
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 Break
14.30-15.30 Keynote: Pat Mills – DISCUSSION WITH ROGER SABIN AND DAVID HUXLEY
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00-18.00 Panel 7A: Travels through Time and Space CHAIR: SIMON GRENNAN
Andreas Stuhlmann and
Sebastian Bartosch: The Return of Deleuze: Voyage and deterritorialization in the comics
of Martin tom Dieck
Anna Howell: The Shadow of Present Pasts in Gipi’s Vois comme ton ombre
s’allonge
Michelle Bumatay: Madame Livingstone and Notre Histoire: Travels in Time
Panel 7B: Travelling through War and Conflict CHAIR: MIHAELA PRECUP
Christophe Corbin: Comics, Graphic Novels and the French Resistance: A Journey Through France’s National Psyche.
Claire Tufts: Vica’s Voyages: Comic Art in the Service of Evil
Giorgio Busi-Rizzi: À rebours: comebacks and recollections in Modan’s The Property and Alfred’s Come prima
Leonora Flis: Two Journeys into History by Two Slovenian Comics Artists from the Legendary Mladina journal Circle
19.00 Conference Dinner: Nos ancetres les Gaulois (see directions in conference pack)
9.30-11.00 Panel 8A: Creating Comics
Gunnar Krantz : Sketching beyond the boundaries of time and space – developing scrawled memories of the past
Cecilia Valagussa : Your Neighbour is a “Pig”
Maurice Vink: The Adventures of Boris the Great Globetrotter. “Eat, Pray, Get Confused”
Panel 8B: The Voyages of Tintin
Mat Screech: Continuing Clear Line
Joe Sutliff Sanders: “Hergé’s Occupations: How the Creator of Tintin Made a Deal with
the Devil and Became a Better Cartoonist,”
Yasco Horsman: Les Psychanalysts Chez Tintin: Charles Burns’s journeys through tintinology
Panel 8C: National and Transnational Identities
Ian Horton: Donald Duck Goes Dutch
Winona Landis: Illustrating the Transnational: Clément Baloup and the Multilingual
Diasporic Subject
Erinc Salor: Traveling Identities: Themes of Turkish National Identity Represented
Through Travels of Abdulcanbaz
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30-13.00 Panel 9A: Voyages Between Media
Markus Arnold: Shifting between sequential art and novel writing: the topic of slavery
in recent French bande dessinée
Barbara Uhlig: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – in Italy. Lorenzo Mattotti’s Take on
an American classic
Panel 9B: The American West in Bande Dessinée
William Grady: Lucky Luke, Coca-Cola, and the Dilemma with America in Post-War Europe
Eliza Bourque Dandridge: Cowboys and Indians in Africa? The Far West and the “Western” BD
Hero at the End of Empire
Annabelle Cone: Revisiting Representations of the “Other” in Belgian Golden Age
Comics Set in the American West.
Panel 9C: TBC
Jane Weston Vauclair:
Zanne Lyttle:
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.30 Panel 10A: Narratological Challenges for the Interpretation of Comics: Four analytical perspectives on the case of travel narratives:
Benjamin Picado: Visual Narrativity and Graphic Enunciation in Documentary Comics: a
look upon Le Photographe, by Guibert, Lefèvre and Lemercier
Raphael Baroni: Time Travels in French Comics: From Extraordinary Journeys to Time
Paradoxes
Jan Baetens: Tintin in America, or How to Describe a Place You’ve Never Been
Philippe Marion: The passage as a “travel agent” for comic book reader. A reading of
Moebius and Marc-Antoine Mathieu
Panel 10B: The Developing Medium: BD and the World Beyond
Sylvain Lesage: What ‘albums’ did to bande dessinée: the editorial originality of
French comics
Enrique del Rey Cabero: A trip to change the world. Depicting development through comics
in Viñetas de Vida
Jonathas Araujo: Chris Ware and Moebius. A semiotic aproache of multiframe
Daniel Goodbrey: Journeys In The Third Dimension
16.30-17.00 Break
17.00-18.00 Panel 11A: Representing the Regional in the Bande Dessinée
Lise Tannahill: Bande Dessinée in Corsica: Expressing Regionalism in Francophone
Text-Image Culture
Armelle Blin Rolland: Towards a Definition of Francophone Breton bande dessinée:
Travelling to Penn-Ar-Bed in Bruno Le Floc’h’s Trois éclats blancs
Panel 11B: Travelling through Colonial Conflict
Veronica Dean: ‘Avec les livres, on peut aller n’importe où dans le monde’: Local voyages and global dreams in Leçons coloniales
George Cary Sipp: Wolves in the City – The Algerian War and Colonialism in Comics
Panel 11C: TBC
Olivier Morel:
Guillaume de Syon:
Panel 11D: Gendered Journeys
Hannah Schiff : Curses, Comics, and Combinations: How Ranma ½ Promotes Gender
Hybridity
Nhu-Hoa Nguyen: Kim Dong-Hwa’s Journey back to Korean Traditional Culture in
Ehwa’s Journey into Womanhood
18.00-19.45 Drinks Reception
9.30-11 Panel 12A: Belgium and the Congo
Pascal Lefèvre: Travelling Belgian Protagonists for Non-travelling Young Readers
(1945-1965)
Benoît Crucifix: The Architecture of the Colonial Adventure: Olivier Schrauwen’s
Arsène Schrauwen
Gert Meesters: Congo as a voyage to the roots of a cartoonist’s practice: Arsène
Schrauwen by Olivier Schrauwen
Panel 12B: Journeying to the Self
Alfredo Guzman Tinajero : Journey to the heart of one self (The travel comic as Autobiographical variation)
Mathieu Narindal &
Colin Pahlisch: A Journey to Oneself. Experiencing the Elsewhere in Cosey’s Jonathan
Panel 12C: Les Voyages dans la bande dessinée (French-language panel)
Alice Favaro: La frontiera invisibile
Agatha Mohring: Le voyage thérapeutique dans le roman graphique espagnol
contemporain
Florence Ramond Jurney: Les errances de Rico
11-11.30 Break
11.30-13.00 Keynote: Renaud Chavanne
13.00-14.15 Lunch
14.15-15.45 Panel 13A: Fumetti
Alex Valente: Rebibbia Regna – An experiment in translation
Alessia Zocca: Dylan Dog’s journey in Cagliostro!
Michael D. Picone: Lives of the Models
Panel 13B: The Voyage through History
Juliette Bourdier: Medieval Bandes dessinées, The Arts of Memory. Boiling
Cauldron, Fierce Snake, Stinking River and, Blazing Wheel; that Must be Hell!
Billy Grove: Töpffer’s Travels
Marion Joassin: “Exploration of the notion of voyage in the bandes dessinées created in the 70’s-80’s: fantasy quests, sea crossings and spacetime voyages in Thorgal, Corto Maltese, Yoko Tsuno et Valérian”
15.45-16.45 AGM IBDS and Close
