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CSS Newsletter #1 DECEMBER 2015 CSS Newsletter #1 DECEMBER 2015 In this issue: Welcome! (S. Kirtley) Comics Studies Society: The Year in Review (B. Cremins) Notable Comics Studies Scholarship of 2015 (C. Hatfield & A.D. Lewis) Best Comics of 2015 (B. Cremins) Partnership with the International Comic Art Forum (ICAF) (Q. Whitted) Upcoming Membership Notice (N. Serrano) Welcome to the first official newsletter of the Comics Studies Society! We are delighted to announce that the Comics Studies Society has officially received official non-profit 501(c)(3) status, and we can now begin our first membership drive! Executive officers were elected at an initial meeting during the November 2014 Festival of Cartoon Art at The Ohio State University and since last year board members have been hard at work to establish non-profit status so that we can begin our mission to support the “critical study of comics, improving comics teaching, and engaging in open and ongoing conversations about the comics world.” In the upcoming year we are looking forward to partnering with worthy events, such the International Comic Arts Forum 2016 Conference at the University of South Carolina, to promote comics scholarship and are working on a variety of scholarly projects, which we hope to announce soon. In the meantime we hope you will take advantage of our very special Founding Memberships, which offer a discounted price over a two-year period and special member perks such as our newsletter! Year in Review CSS & ICAF It’s been a busy year for the CSS! First of CSS will partner with all, we’d like to thank you for signing up the International Comic for our mailing list and for this newsletter, Art Forum (ICAF) for its which includes a few highlights from 18th annual conference our first year. As we look forward to 2016, from April 14-16, 2016 at especially to the elections that will be held the University of South Carolina. Since 1995, at ICAF in April, we thought it would be a ICAF has been dedicated to promoting the good time to step back and reflect on scholarly study and appreciation of comic art what the Society has accomplished so far. in all forms. The conference provides a supportive, collegial environment to Our biggest news is that, as of November, showcase innovative comics scholarship and 2015, the CSS is a 501 (c) (3) comic art from around the world. ICAF 2016 organization! The CSS Executive Board will feature a keynote address by Prof. began this process early in the year. After Michael Chaney and artist presentations a discussion of where to house the new by Howard Cruse, Keith organization, the Board decided on Knight, Dominique Goblet, Cece Bell, Roy Columbus, Ohio, where we secured our Thomas, Sanford Greene, and Gary status as a legal entity in August. Not long Jackson. CSS will sponsor an academic after the paperwork had been filed, the roundtable session on professionalization in CSS learned of its nonprofit status. comics studies with the Graduate Student Caucus. Also of note to CSS affiliates: ICAF So what comes next? A membership drive! sponsors the John A. Lent scholarship for Be on the lookout for more details student research in comic art (applications about the drive on the CSS website and due Jan. 8, 2016). For more information, visit Facebook page. ICAF online (internationalcomicartsforum.org), Facebook Earlier in the year, the CSS also sponsored (facebook.com/icafcomic), and Twitter its first academic panel at the (twitter.com/icafcomic). annual Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference run by Michael Chaney at Dartmouth College. This year, the Best 2015 Comics Conference began with a discussion between James Sturm, cartoonist and co- No year-end newsletter would be complete founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies, without a round-up of the best comics and Enrico Riley, a painter and Associate of 2015. What cartoonists did you first Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth. In discover over the last twelve months? Did this wide-ranging discussion, the artists you find yourself moving backwards in time, too, reading comics you’d once loved discussed their work, their lives in the but forgotten about? Or did you finally upper Connecticut River Valley, and their come to terms with your affection for practice as teachers. The CSS looks Devil Dinosaur, and admit that it is, forward to sponsoring other events like perhaps, the single greatest Jack Kirby this, sessions that invite artists, scholars, comic ever published? (Don’t tell the CSS and students to consider the history and President I said that.) potential of the medium. Here’s my list of five. (Want to share Meanwhile, the Executive Board also held yours? Visit our CSS Facebook page and let monthly meetings on a range of us know what you enjoyed the most this topics, including membership levels and year.) incentives, plans for the 2016 ICAF, and the Society’s peer-reviewed journal. Keiler Roberts, Miseryland. A Chicago- based cartoonist who teaches comics at Did we say peer-reviewed journal? Yes, the School of the Art Institute, Roberts that’s on its way, too. To keep track trained as a painter. If you haven’t read of what’s already happened and what’s Roberts’s series Powdered Milk, start with coming next, be sure to follow the CSS Miseryland, which collects several recent on Twitter and on Facebook. And if you issues. Marvel at her comic pacing in have any questions, especially about how stories and vignettes that are outrageously you can sign up to be a member of the funny one moment, serious and CSS, please contact us! contemplative the next. A friend suggested I read Ben Passmore’s Notable Scholarship Goodbye, or The State of Nature: A Comik, after hearing me rave about Mickey The CSS's A. David Lewis and Charles Zacchilli’s series Rav. Although Passmore, Hatfield spotlight innovative and inspiring who now makes his home in New Orleans, scholarly publications from 2015 both online shares a certain design sense with and in print. Zacchilli, his line-work is much cleaner and more precise. I could describe Passmore’s Beaty, Bart, Twelve-Cent Archie work as a blend of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but he’s after something else, I CH: Beaty's concise, punchy, and endlessly think. Maybe it’s the visionary, utopian readable study of Archie comics in the spaces in Eleanor Davis’s work, which also 1960s is very much a conceptual book. Its takes science fiction conventions as a unusual form (a hundred short chapters, starting point before demanding something most of which could be read in any order) far more true and personal from them. If it mirrors the discontinuity of the Archie were the 1960s, I’d tell you to put on a franchise itself during that era. Leaping copy of the first MC5 album, crank it up, back and forth between large topics (e.g. and then read Goodbye. It’s that loud, and gender, race) and small (Archie's jalopy, it’s that good. See for yourself: Betty's ponytail), Beaty reads the Archive universe as a story-generating machine, a set of formulas that could be rebooted, with variations, again and again. The challenge here is to find the interest in a self-evidently formulaic line of comics that has been ignored by scholars and critics. Beaty does this, in surprising ways that call into question the very rules and conventions of comics studies. This is a I love The Unbeatble gauntlet thrown down, challenging the Squirrel Girl. I’m even ok canonization and gentrification of a certain with the fact that, as they few comics at the expense of the larger proclaim on the cover of a tradition. Must reading (I have already recent issue, they’ve used it in the classroom). “only” had two first issues “so far this year.” Written Burke, Liam, The Comic Book Film by Ryan North and drawn Adaptation by Erica Henderson, the series, which features a character created CH: Comics-based movies, particularly by pulp scholar Will Murray and artist superhero ones, seem inescapable now, Steve Ditko, is, like Ms. Marvel and the and the topic may tired comics purists (like new Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, the kind myself!) who wish to separate comics per of comic that makes me wish the 7-11 up se from their inevitable adaptations in the street still had a spinner rack. It’s for other media. Burke's book, however, kids, it’s for adults. It’s funny. The art is covers the topic with such thoroughness simple and well-paced. It’s the kind of and care that it made me want to teach an comic that, were C. C. Beck still alive, he’d entire course on the subject (and, again, I probably love it, too. I don’t know any have already used this book in class). higher praise than that. And Will Murray— Burke examines comic book films from who wrote The Duende History of the many different perspectives: ideological, Shadow Magazine—and Steve Ditko (you industrial, formal, aesthetic, and those of know, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, all fandom, reception, and genre. The result is that) came up with the character. What likely to be a standard reference for years more strangeness and history can you ask to come. What's more, he shows both a of one comic? fan's passion for tradition and minutiae and a critic's toughness and independence of Most of you will know Gene Kannenberg, mind. I see this in my Literature and Film Jr., from his work as a comics scholar, syllabi, coming up.
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