Priority seating and advance entry will be available for classes that attend the Art Spiegelman lecture together on March 3rd, 7 pm, Jorgensen Center. Classes will be able to enter between 6.00 and 6.30 pm. Faculty who wish to reserve advance entry for their classes should email Kathy McDermott in the Provost's Office at kathleen.mcdermott@uconn.edu with faculty name, class number and title, and number of students.
In his talk “What the %@&*! Happened to Comics?” Spiegelman takes his audience on a chronological tour of the evolution of comics, all the while explaining the value of this medium and why it should not be ignored. He believes that in our post-literate culture the importance of the comic is on the rise, for "comics echo the way the brain works. People think in iconographic images, not in holograms, and people think in bursts of language, not in paragraphs." He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his Holocaust narrative, Maus.
For more information, contact: Kathy McDermott at kathleen.mcdermott@uconn.edu