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SUMMARY:Giving Comics Back to Children - Professor Laurence Grove\, Univer
 sity of Glasgow
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:In 1954 a group of schoolchildren from the Gorbals district of
  Glasgow ran amok in the Southern Necropolis following sightings of an iro
 n-toothed vampire. Media reaction was intense\, with local notables and me
 mbers of the Kirk quick to blame imported horror comics. \n\nWith the soci
 al and cultural revolutions of the 1960s came a social and cultural revolu
 tion in comics: Robert Crumb’s Underground put political taboos above bo
 ard\, and Barbarella went from strips to stripping. \n\nToday\, we no long
 er need to justify the reading of comics as a grown-up intellectual pursui
 t. But included in the span of possibilities that they create comes that o
 f pedagogy. Frank Quitely’s version of the Gorbals Vampire was to be use
 d in partnership with the Citizens Theatre for an outreach production\, co
 mic exhibitions might have a ‘red curtain’ adults-only area\, but they
  also have a children’s section\, and Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (2006)\,
  complete with references to Ellis Island and Hieronymus Bosch\, is on sch
 ool syllabi worldwide.\n\nIn this talk\, Professor Grove sketches a histor
 y of children and comics in the modern world\, attending to when comics we
 re and weren’t for children—and when comics were and weren’t good fo
 r children.\n\n*Laurence Grove* is Professor of French and Text/Image Stud
 ies and Director of the Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Imag
 e Cultures at the University of Glasgow.  His research focuses on historic
 al aspects of text/image forms\, and in particular bande dessinée (French
  comics).  He is President of the International Bande Dessinée Society (
 ‘www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ibds’).  As well as serving on the consultative co
 mmittees of a number of journals\, he is joint-editor of _European Comic A
 rt_.  Laurence Grove has authored (in full or jointly) eleven books and ap
 proximately sixty chapters or articles.  He co-curated _Comic Invention an
 d Frank Quitely: The Art of Comics_ and is co-author of their accompanying
  books. He is currently working towards the creation of a National Comics 
 Centre for Scotland.\n
LOCATION:Mary Allan Building room G10\, Homerton College\, Hills Road\, Ca
 mbridge CB2 8PQ
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