Education at the Schomburg: Black Comic Book Festival
Date and Time
January 12, 2013
For ages 13 to 18 years
Event Details
Presented by the Schomburg Junior Scholars and Jonathan Gayles, PhD (Georgia State University), THE BLACK COMIC BOOK FESTIVAL is a dynamic festival for young people that celebrates the rich tradition of black superheroes and features a screening of the film “White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books”; a pop-up art exhibition of “Black Kirby”- a visual homage to the legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby by artists John Jennings (SUNY Buffalo) and Stacey Robinson; panel discussions, hands-on workshops, and exhibit tables with premiere black comic book artists from across the country. Free. All ages welcome. Registration is required. Contact schomburged@nypl.org.
SCHEDULE & EXHIBITORS LISTED BELOW.
SCHEDULE:
All Day
Pop-Up Exhibition | Main Lobby
Black Kirby by John Jennings, SUNY Buffalo and Stacey Robinson
All Day
Black Comic Book Exhibitors | Main Lobby & Mezzanine
10 am
Film Screening and Q&A | Langston Hughes Auditorium
White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books
Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University
10:30 am
Workshop | American Negro Theater
The Art of Making Comics
Alex Simmons, Comic Book Writer and Founder of KidsComicCon
12 pm
Film Screening and Q&A | Langston Hughes Auditorium
White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books
Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University
12:30 pm
Workshop | American Negro Theater
Family Cartooning Workshop
Jerry Craft, Syndicated Cartoonist of Mama’s Boyz
2 pm
Panel Discussion | Langston Hughes Auditorium
Moderator:
Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University
Panelists:
Comics Come to Harlem: Race and the Lafargue Clinics Case Against Comics
Qiana Joelle Whitted, University of South Carolina
Secret Identities and Mutant Minorities
Marcus W. Singer, Howard University
Representing Black Citizenship, or Why Understanding the History of Black Comics Helps Us Understand “Django Unchained”
Rebecca Ann Wanzo, Washington University St. Louis
Pride, Power, and Protest? Marvel Comic and the Black Superhero after 1970
Julian C. Chambliss, Rollins College
2 pm
Youth Film Screening | American Negro Theater
Our Friend Martin: An Adventure Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.
THE EVENT WILL END PROMPTLY AT 4 P.M. AS THE SCHOMBURG HAS ANOTHER EVENT THAT EVENING.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR COOPERATION.