
Comics Arts Conference Session #2: How Comics Work
Thursday, July 23, 202611:30 AM – 1 PMSan Diego Convention Center — Room 26ABComic-Con badge required
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This session explores how comics construct meaning through serial storytelling, reinterpretation, race, and political memory. Paul Young (Dartmouth College) shows how early Hulk comics helped shape Marvel's serialized universe-building through cyclical transformation narratives and crossovers. Francisco Sáez de Adana (University of Alcalá) reinterprets Vitaliti's contemporary artistic reworking of El Eternauta, focusing on how a classic comic work can be reinterpreted to extract…