Cartoonist Alison Bechdel and literary scholar Hillary Chute work out terms for a new critical language with which to engage nonfiction comics.
Various publications applaud the Comics: Philosophy & Practice Conference which took place May 18th through 20th at the University of Chicago's new Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.
Read more »Judith Thurman from the New Yorker writes a feature on Alison Bechdel, cartoonist, and current Gray Center fellow. Together with Hillary Chute, an English professor at the University and comic book theorist, Bechdel is experimenting with Lines of Transmission: Comics and Autobiography, a Mellon Fellowship which seeks to uncover new terms with which to engage nonfiction comics.
The whole article can be found here.