Comics Programme 2009
Sunday 28th June 2009
D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee
£10 (including workshop)
£5 (concession including workshop)
£3 workshop only
For tickets call 01382 384413 or email literarydundee@gmail.com
11.00am - David Bishop: Writing for Graphic Novels Workshop (ends 12.00pm) (£3)
1.00pm - Chris Murray, Opening of Conference
Session One: How Comics Work
1.10pm - Ian Hague, Comics and the Linearity of Time
1.30pm - Julia Round, Chronological illusion in the work of Alan Moore
1.50pm - Emma Vieceli, Approaching Sequential Art and Adaptation
2.10pm - Mel Gibson, 'I don't live in Sunderland! Sunderland doesn't exist! I've made it all up!' The past, the comic and the personal in Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland
2.30pm - Questions
2.40pm - Break/Opening of Exhibition
Session Two: British Science Fiction Comics
3.20pm - Bill McLoughlin and Keith Robson, DC Thomson's Starblazer
3.40pm - Peter Hughes Jachimiak, ' Days of Future Passed': A 1970s Britain, Economic
Downturn and Utopian Futures in Children's Science Fiction Comics
4.00pm - David Bishop, 'Time Twisted': A look at Alan Moore's treatment of time frames in 2000AD
4.20pm - Questions
4.30pm - Break/Book Signing with David Bishop and Emma Vieceli
Session Three: Keynote Presentation I
5.00pm - Alan Grant, My Adventures in Comics
5.40pm - Questions
6.00pm - Break/Book Signing with Alan Grant and Warren Ellis
Session Four: Keynote Presentation II
6.30pm - Warren Ellis , Title TBC
7.10pm - Questions
7.30pm - Concluding Remarks
For more information contact Dr Chris Murray - (c.murray@dundee.ac.uk).
Image: Richard McGuire, Here (in Raw, Vol. 2, #1, 1989). Used with Permission.
