DemoGRAPHICS: Voices & Visionaries from the SDSU Comic Arts Collection

DemoGRAPHICS is a year-long exhibit and lecture series that draws upon these resources to explore how identity, in its most broadly-defined sense, is cultivated and nurtured in the imagination. Comics that explore history and society through diverse lenses, such as culture, race, ethnicity, language, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, and age will be on display in the library for the academic year 2017-2018. The exhibit represents a variety of perspectives, both local and global, that utilize both fictional and factual artistic narratives. Exhibit programming will afford students opportunities to engage with several of these “lenses” to contextualize phenomena and negotiate differences in regards to identity and the imagination. The lecture series is to include talks on feminism and identity in the underground comix movement, Afrofuturism, and Latin American/Chicano identity in comics.

Fall 2017: Opening Reception and Roberta Gregory

Roberta Gregory

Roberta Gregory is an American Comic Book Writer and will speak about feminism and identity in the underground comix movement.

Fall 2017: Eisner Award-winning Artist John Jennings in conversation with Ajani Brown, Africana Studies and RWS

Date: October 26th, 2017
Time: 1:00PM  
Location: Love Library 108

John Jennings is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and a Cooperating Faculty Member in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. His work centers around intersectional narratives regarding identity politics and popular media. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning essay collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center's Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal's Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University. Jennings sits on the editorial advisory boards for The Black Scholar and the new Ohio State Press imprint New Suns: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Speculative.

Fall 2017: Political Cartoonist, Joaquin Junco Jr. (a.k.a. Junco Canché), in conversation with Dr. Bill Nericcio, Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Date: November 8th, 2017
Time: 1:00PM  
Location: Love Library 430/431

Joaquin Junco Jr, aka “Junco Canché” is the political cartoonist for El Coyote Crossing Borders and the San Diego Free Press, and he has had cartoons published in El Coyote Online, La Prensa San Diego, and the Southwestern College Sun. His cartoons offer an incisive view of the state and national political scene from a Hispanic point of view. His cartoons at the Southwestern College Sun won awards from the San Diego Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. 

Fall 2017: Comics Corner Pop-Up

Need to de-stress during finals? Pop into Special Collections and read a comic!

Dates: December 15-21, 2017
Time: 10am - 4pm
Location: Special Collections & University Archives

Event Details:

Topic: DemoGRAPHICS: Voices and Visionaries from the SDSU Comic Arts Collection

Dates: Fall 2017 - Spring 2018

Faculty Sponsors: 
Anna Culbertson
Pamela Jackson

Partnerships & Affiliations: 
Zine & DIY Culture Club
Superhero Xchange
 

Affiliated Courses: AFRAS 466; ART 343; ART 443; ART 543; CLT 594; CLT 595; ENG 220; ENG 250b; ENG 280; ENG 450; ENG 501; ENG 604; HIST 110; HIST 406; HIST 620; HUMS 322; HUMS 596 LGBT 321; LGBT 322; MALAS 600A; MALAS 600D; MALAS 601; RWS 730; WMNST 101; WMNST 102; WMNST 325; WMNST 341; WMNST 352; WMNST 360; WMNST 375

table with comics