Benjamin Fraser and Paul Buhle, Aug. 27, 2024 at 7pm EDT
The 395th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 7 pm EDT. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.
A cross-generational conversation on comics criticism, editing and writing with Paul Buhle and Benjamin Fraser. Buhle will discuss The Bund, a graphic history of Jewish labour resistance (2023) and Fraser will discuss his recent monograph on Ben Katchor (2023).
Benjamin Fraser is a professor of Iberian and Latin American culture in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. His scholarship spanning the fields of urban studies, comics studies, and disability studies includes 15 scholarly monographs, 8 edited volumes, and 100 articles. Among his recent books are Ben Katchor (University Press of Mississippi, 2023), Barcelona, City of Comics: Urbanism, Architecture and Design in Postdictatorial Spain (SUNY Press, 2022), Visible Cities, Global Comics: Urban Images and Spatial Form (University Press of Mississippi, 2019) and The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape and Comics Form (University of Texas Press, 2019, short-listed for the 2020 Eisner Award). His editorial positions include Editor-in-Chief of Hispania, the flagship research journal of the AATSP, Founding Editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Founding Co-Editor of the Hispanic Urban Studies book series, and Managing and Senior Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. He also serves on the editorial board of Studies in Comics.
Paul Buhle, formerly a Senior Lecturer at Brown University, is the author, editor, or coeditor of more than forty books on popular culture, comic art, film, labor, and radical history, including including Studs Terkel's Working (2019), Yiddishkeit (2011), Red Rosa (2015), W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk; Brigadistas! (2021) and The Bund (2023). He edited the three-volume set, Jews and American Popular Culture (2006). He also founded and directed the New Left journal, Radical America, and the Oral History of the American Left project at New York University. He edited the three-volume set, Jews and American Popular Culture (2006). He also founded and directed the New Left journal, Radical America, and the Oral History of the American Left project at New York University.