Free for MWPAI Members; $5 General Public

 Lecture

Paul Lopes
Author and Associate Professor of Sociology at Colgate University

The graphic novel is only a recent phenomenon in American art. The first graphic novels to gain public recognition appeared in the mid-1980s, and only over the last 10 years has the graphic novel established itself as a permanent feature of American literature and art. Professor Paul Lopes, author of Demanding Respect: the Evolution of the American Comic Book, will present a lecture that places the rise of the graphic novel within the broader history of American comic books and the long struggle by artists and others to legitimize this sequential art as a serious literary and visual art form in the United States.

Peter Kuper, untitled #43, 1996, illustration for The System,
airbrush, watercolor, colored pencil, and collage on paper, Collection of the artist

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