Katherine Kelp-Stebbins Talks: Power & World Comics, Systems Of Power, & Place
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Katherine Kelp-Stebbins takes us on a journey into art, money, power & planetary comics, including gatekeeping & capitalist global systems of power; politics of exclusion; formal elements of comics that resist conventions of reading and convey resistant political worldviews. Discussion includes Magdy El Shafee's Metro: A Graphic Novel, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's Red: A Haida Manga, Riad Sattouf's Arab of the Future. . . Katherine asks: “Who gets to feel at home and where and why. Who gets to produce and evaluate culture and where and why”
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