Announcing the Met@Morph Schedule
Comic News
You're Invited: Met@Morph in Second Life
By Beth Davies-Stofka
Sep 30, 2008 - 10:34:13 AM
Here comes Met@Morph, the first annual Web Comics Comic-Con and Conference held exclusively in Second Life!
The Comic Book Bin, along with The Center for EduPunx and the Institute for Comics Studies, invites you to attend the inworld gathering on Friday October 3, 2008.
The preliminary schedule features an international roster of web comics creators, Second Life comics creators, scholars, teachers, students, and designers. Watch this space for more details! If you have questions, please email Beth Davies-Stofka, beth@comicbookbin.com.
Met@Morph! The exclusively inworld gathering of creators, scholars, students and fans happens on Friday, October 3. All times are Pacific time.
8:00 – 9:00
Welcome
Hervé St.-Louis, Owner and Publisher, The Comic Book Bin
Make Like An Action Figure!
Hosted by the Social Presence Center and Friends from the Center for EduPunx
9:00 – 10:00
Panel One: Web Comics
Marking Transition – the work of Neal von Flue
Hanli Geyser, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Web comic as engaging tool. The best of this: it wasn't an activity
Ruth Martinez, Madrid, Spain
10:15 – 11:00
Roundtable One: Giving Them Their Props: What Needs to be in a Survey of Comics Class
Facilitator: José Garcia-Paine, Front Range Community College
Discussant: David Accampo
Discussant: TBD
11:00 – 11:30
Social Time
Conversation, and Nudging and Bumping, and Dancing if you like!
Make Like An Action Figure!
Hosted by the Social Presence Center and Friends from the Center for EduPunx
11:30 – 12:30
Panel Two: Scholarship on Comics
Freedom within Boundaries: The Theory and Practice of Constraint in Comics
Derik Badman, Temple University
How Comics Mean: A Look at How We Understand the Medium
Robert N. O'Nale, Jr., Henderson State University
Alan Moore – cartoonist
Andrew Edwards, Sequart and Wrexham, Wales, UK
12:45 – 1:15
Quick Web 2.0 Comics Creators
Kate Hagerty, The Center for EduPunx
1:15 – 2:00
Roundtable Two: College Comics Clubs in the Meatspace and in the Metaverse
Facilitator: Lauren Nagle, President of the Front Range Community College Comic Book Club
Discussant 1: TBD
Discussant 2: TBD
2:00 – 3:30
Creators' Commons
Creators:
Botgirl Questi, Second Life Comics Creator
Anthony Fontana, Machinima and Mash-up Creator
Tim Volpe, Web Comics Creator
Mireille Massue, A short introduction to the use of comics in communication and training
3:30 – 3:45
Closing Comments
Pete Coogan, Institute for Comics Studies
You're Invited: Met@Morph in Second Life
By Beth Davies-Stofka
Sep 30, 2008 - 10:34:13 AM
Here comes Met@Morph, the first annual Web Comics Comic-Con and Conference held exclusively in Second Life!
The Comic Book Bin, along with The Center for EduPunx and the Institute for Comics Studies, invites you to attend the inworld gathering on Friday October 3, 2008.
The preliminary schedule features an international roster of web comics creators, Second Life comics creators, scholars, teachers, students, and designers. Watch this space for more details! If you have questions, please email Beth Davies-Stofka, beth@comicbookbin.com.
Met@Morph! The exclusively inworld gathering of creators, scholars, students and fans happens on Friday, October 3. All times are Pacific time.
8:00 – 9:00
Welcome
Hervé St.-Louis, Owner and Publisher, The Comic Book Bin
Make Like An Action Figure!
Hosted by the Social Presence Center and Friends from the Center for EduPunx
9:00 – 10:00
Panel One: Web Comics
Marking Transition – the work of Neal von Flue
Hanli Geyser, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Web comic as engaging tool. The best of this: it wasn't an activity
Ruth Martinez, Madrid, Spain
10:15 – 11:00
Roundtable One: Giving Them Their Props: What Needs to be in a Survey of Comics Class
Facilitator: José Garcia-Paine, Front Range Community College
Discussant: David Accampo
Discussant: TBD
11:00 – 11:30
Social Time
Conversation, and Nudging and Bumping, and Dancing if you like!
Make Like An Action Figure!
Hosted by the Social Presence Center and Friends from the Center for EduPunx
11:30 – 12:30
Panel Two: Scholarship on Comics
Freedom within Boundaries: The Theory and Practice of Constraint in Comics
Derik Badman, Temple University
How Comics Mean: A Look at How We Understand the Medium
Robert N. O'Nale, Jr., Henderson State University
Alan Moore – cartoonist
Andrew Edwards, Sequart and Wrexham, Wales, UK
12:45 – 1:15
Quick Web 2.0 Comics Creators
Kate Hagerty, The Center for EduPunx
1:15 – 2:00
Roundtable Two: College Comics Clubs in the Meatspace and in the Metaverse
Facilitator: Lauren Nagle, President of the Front Range Community College Comic Book Club
Discussant 1: TBD
Discussant 2: TBD
2:00 – 3:30
Creators' Commons
Creators:
Botgirl Questi, Second Life Comics Creator
Anthony Fontana, Machinima and Mash-up Creator
Tim Volpe, Web Comics Creator
Mireille Massue, A short introduction to the use of comics in communication and training
3:30 – 3:45
Closing Comments
Pete Coogan, Institute for Comics Studies
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