Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics
Date
Oct 24, 2008
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Jan 4, 2009
Time
All Day
Location
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion
Cost
Free
Sponsor
Office of the Chancellor UIUC; Office of the Provost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Illinois Arts Council; Krannert Art Museum Director's Circle; Krannert Art Museum Council
Although recent attention to the history and development of comics and sequential art has been well deserved and long overdue, it nevertheless has been limited in scope. Out of Sequence seeks to showcase American sequential art that steps outside the traditional bounds of the medium by focusing on historical and contemporary women and minority comic creators, work created with nontraditional techniques, experimental design, and story elements, and webcomics. Out of Sequence also saves a place for comic book writers. Although not technically visual artists, the sequential art writer is to comics what the director is to film. Therefore, to truly appreciate the nature of sequential art, it is instructive to investigate the collaboration between artist and writer.
Even though Out of Sequence will showcase sequential artwork from its incipient stages to the present, it will also focus on the alternate histories, the overlooked, and the underrepresented in an effort to form a more extensive canon of American sequential art masters and, in so doing, express the limitless possibilities of this art form. Guest Curators: Damian Duffy and John Jennings
