Appalachian State University English professor Craig Fischer—who teaches classes in comics and graphic novels—will speak on seven editorial cartoons that enraged readers and newspaper publishers alike. Drawn by such talented North Carolina editorial cartoonists as Billy Borne (Asheville Citizen), Doug Marlette (Charlotte Observer), and Dwane Powell (Raleigh News and Observer), these are images that captured historical and contemporary tensions in our state’s politics and culture. Let’s explore those images and tensions together. Plus: Fischer will end with a multimedia compilation of 100+ comic-book artists, book illustrators, zine makers, and more, all connected to North Carolina.
About the Speaker
Dr. Craig Fischer
Craig Fischer is a professor of English at Appalachian State University. His writings about comics, film, and popular culture have appeared in The Comics Journal, Appalachian Journal, The Complete Carl Barks Library, and in the books The Routledge Companion to Comics Studies (2016) and The Blacker the Ink: African Americans and Comic Books, Graphic Novels and Sequential Art (2015). Recent projects include co-editing a collection of academic essays on comics creator Jack Kirby with Charles Hatfield and Susan Kirtley, and an article on goremeister movie director Herschell Gordon Lewis forthcoming in a book on horror edited by Stephen R. Bissette.
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