Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People

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The 16th Annual British IBBY/NCRCL MA Children’s Literature Conference
GOING GRAPHIC: COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Saturday 14 November 2009
Froebel College, Roehampton University

The 2009 IBBY UK/NCRCL MA conference will explore the developing interest in the graphic medium from a variety of perspectives, in addition to considering developments in the range and content of comics available to children and young people.

Keynote speakers are Mel Gibson (University of Northumbria), Paul Gravett (author of definitive books on comics and graphic novels), Marcia Williams (author of graphic novels), David Fickling (publisher, including a recent comic for teenagers).

Provisional programme for the day
Information is currently correct, some titles and times may change.

9:30 Registration and coffee
Terrace Room, Grove House

10:00 Welcome
Portrait Room

10:10 Mel Gibson

11.00 David Fickling

11:30 Comfort break

11:40 Panel discussion chaired by Ariel Kahn – Sarah McIntyre, Emma Vieceli and Tony Lee

12:40 IBBY news – Ann Lazim

12:50 Lunch in the Mulberry Diner, plus time to view exhibitions and bookshop in the Adam and Terrace rooms

2:00 Parallel workshops/sessions (see right)

3:10 Tea and book signings

3:40 Paul Gravett – From Tintin to Titeuf: Is the Anglophone Market too Tough for French Comics for Children?

4.20 Marcia Williams – ‘Out of the box: The challenges and delights of creating comic strips for children

5.00 Finish

Places are limited so be sure to book early!

Registration fees, which include a sandwich lunch:

£75 Full delegates
£50 Students/concessions
£65 British IBBY members
£45 Roehampton students/staff

Parallel Workshops

1. Kimberley Black, ‘Remember Me’: An Afrocentric Reading of Pitch Black

Lara Saguisag, Strangely Familiar: Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and the Universalised Immigrant Experience

2. William Boerman-Cornell, Graphic Novels in the High School Classroom: Affordances for Using Graphic Novels to Teach High School History

Vasiliki Labitsi, Sequences of frames by young creators: The impact of comics in children’s artistic development

3. Rebecca R. Butler, Two graphic novels and the Holocaust: Maus by Art Spiegelman and Good-Bye Marianne by Irene N. Watts and Kathryn E. Shoemaker.

Erica Gillingham, Copulating, Coming Out and Comics: The High School Chronicles of Ariel Schrag

4. Janet Evans, Raymond Briggs : Controversially blurring the boundaries among comics, graphic novels, picturebooks and illustrated books (Double session)

5. Rachel Johnson, Henty Honed: is Henty's History Lost in Graphic Translation?

Daniel Pinna, As Old as Clay: A Reflection on Sequential Art and Visual

Language

6. Dora Oronti, Felton Outcault and The Yellow Kid

Malini Roy, ‘To entertain and educate’: Graphic novels for children in Indian publishing

7. Mariana Spanaki, Journeys across time in graphic novels from Greece
Stefania Tondo, Crossover graphic text and classics of children’s literature: Disney Manga Kingdom Hearts

8. Jessica Yates, Superhero Comics and Graphic Novels

Hilary Young, Composing and Performing Masculinities: Of Reading Boys’ Comics c. 1930 – 1955

9. Frixos Michaelides & Petros Panaou, The power of hybrids: complex and effective visual narratives that resist categorisation

Ariel Kahn, Reading between the lines: The Subversion of Authority in Comics and Graphic Novels written for Young Adults

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