Every year we feature a slate of talks about geek culture by professionals as well as SU staff and students.
Our speakers schedule, all in Shaffer 121 (some participants will be appearing by Zoom, and all talks will be available on Zoom at this link: https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/j/97934581940).
11:30-12:15 “Queer Voices in Geek Culture” Panel Discussion
Moderator: Meegs Longacre (LGBTQ+ Resource Center)
Participants: Marcos Chin, Marie Enger, Marella Moon Albanese, Stephanie Patino (Pride Union)
Some panelists will participate via Zoom
12:30-1:15 Atagun Ilhan
Guest artist on Poison Ivy and Graduate Student in Illustration
1:30-2:15 Valentine De Landro
Artist on Bitch Planet, Silver Surfer: Ghost Light, X-Factor
De Landro will appear via Zoom
2:30-3:15 JoAnn Purcell
Writer on comics and disability. Topic: Comics as Caregiving
Queer Voices in Geek Culture panel discussion
This panel discussion will feature artists Marella Moon, Marie Enger, Marcos Chin, and student representative Stephanie Patino from the Pride Union. Moderated by Meegs Longacre from the LGBTQ Resource Center. Some panelists will appear via Zoom.
Atagun Ilhan
Atagun Ilhan is a seasoned illustrator who works primarily in sequential art, fantasy art, and book illustration. He is pursuing his MFA in Illustration at Syracuse University and is a graduate of DC Comics’ Milestone Initiative program. Currently, he’s been working on numerous DC Comics projects, including as a guest artist for some issues of the current Poison Ivy series.
Valentine De Landro
Valentine De Landro is a Canadian comic book artist, illustrator, and designer. His credits include titles from Marvel, DC Comics, Image, IDW, Valiant, and Dark Horse.
He has worked with many top writers on comics, such as Bitch Planet with Eisner-winning Kelly Sue DeConnick, Silver Surfer: Ghost Light with John Jennings (editor of the Eisner-winning The Blacker the Ink), and X-Factor with Peter David.
De Landro will appear via Zoom, which will be streamed in the CON’s auditorium.
JoAnn Purcell
JoAnn Purcell will talk about comics as caregiving.
Purcell uses comics as a research method to inquire into disability and difference. She received her PhD in Critical Disability Studies from York University and her comics comprised over half her dissertation. She is the current and founding Program Coordinator of Illustration at Seneca Polytechnic. Recent publications include “Disability Daily Drawn: A Comics Collaboration”in Graphic Medicine (U Hawaii Press, 2022), “Comics, Caregiving and Crip Time” in Comics Picturing Girlhood (Leuven U Press, 2022). Her dissertation will be published by Wilfrid Laurier U Press.
See the previous Panels & Presentations here.
Past speakers have included Dani Pendergast (Demon in the Wood), Tyler Boss (What’s the Furthest Place from Here?), A. Andrews (A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex & Disability), Alexandre Tefenkgi (The Good Asian), C. Spike Trotman (Iron Circus Comics), Jeff Trexler (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund), Ben Marra (Jesusfreak), Natalie Riess (Power Within), and Maya McKibbin (The Song That Called Them Home).
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