Please Join Professor Michael Chaney as he shares his personal journey with comics and awareness as a kid growing up in Ohio of his mixed race heritage; his comics scholarship on autobiography and self-representation by those traditionally not represented; his journey to become a "critical engager with optic world" as well as a visual storyteller and artist! Discussion also includes Animality in comics; the comics: March; Incognegro; My New York Diary; Persepolis; The Imposter's Daughter; Krazy Kat; Black Hole; Maus; Political Cartoons; Gado. Jillian Tamaki.