Helvie at Plymouth State Medieval Forum

Sorry to have missed this:

Forrest C. Helvie recently presented on "When the Present Makes Contact with the Past: Comic Adaptations and Translations of Medieval and Early Modern Sources" at the 34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth State University, on Saturday, 20 April. The essay is now on the website of Sequart Research & Literacy Organization at http://sequart.org/magazine/22328/when-the-present-makes-contact-with-the-past-comic-adaptations-and-translations-of-medieval-and-early-modern-sources/. Apparently, this is an early (or alternate?) version of the essay Helvie published in The Once and Future Classroom (at http://www.teamsmedieval.org/ofc/Spring2013Comics.html), which I posted on earlier this summer.

Helvie on Teaching Comics

Came across the following by accident. It should be of value; Forrest does good, interesting work (both in Medieval Studies and Comics Studies).

Helvie, Forrest. "Teaching Comics in Medieval and Early Modern Classrooms." The Once and Future Classroom 11.1 (Spring 2013). Web. Available at http://www.teamsmedieval.org/ofc/Spring2013Comics.html.

Medieval Comics News Updates

Two quick updates today, both related to blog posts.

Michael A. Johnson of UT Austin asks "Are Comics Medieval?" at the Pencil Panal Page blog and gives a heads up to the work of the Medieval Comics Project.

Medievalist.net includes the query "The first ever comic book?" over at Medieval News in reference to a tumblr posting by Damien Kempf highlighting "A medieval comic book", further evidence of sequential art in medieval manuscript illumination.

damien kempf

Medieval Comics at ICom

Medieval-themed comics were featured last month at the International Conference on Medievalism held from 21-22 October at the University of New Mexico:


The Clash of the Titans: Medieval Paganism Meets Christianity in the Graphic Novel
Gwendolyn A. Morgan, Montana State University

Superheroes of the Round Table is Out!

Jason Tondro's book Superheroes of the Round Table: Comics Connections to Medieval and Renaissance Literature is out now, as detailed on his blog. You can order it direct from publisher McFarland or your favorite online book seller (though Amazon seems to be experiencing a short delay).

Contents Update for Superheroes of the Round Table

McFarland has yet to provide further details on Jason Tondro's upcoming book Superheroes of the Round Table: Comics Connections to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, but I came across the following list of contents in the Library of Congress online catalog:

• Introduction 
• Double identities and Arthegall's Yron Man
• Kirby's masque
• "By my so potent art"
• Arthur, the four-color king
• Grant Morrison's Grail quest

Sadly a new subject heading was not created for the volume as occurred for studies of medieval film, and the book is listed instead under the following headings:

• Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism
• Heroes in art 
• English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism
• Renaissance--England
• Art and literature

Note also (a fact also true with studies of medieval film) the lack of cross-reference to studies on medievalism and, perhaps, most confusing any cross-reference to either Arthurian or medieval subjects.  

Tondro on Superheroes of the Round Table

Jason Tondro comments on his blog about the development of his forthcoming book Superheroes of the Round Table.

Scholarship by Jason Tondro

Here's a list of presentations and publications by Jason Tondo. Its a nice mix showing the potential for presentations at both popular-culture and traditionally non-popular-culture conferences. As the fruit of his labors, Jason has produced the essay “Camelot in Comics,” in King Arthur in Popular Culture (2002) and a dissertation on medieval comics: “An Imaginary Mongoose: Comics, Canon, and the Superhero Romance” (Univ. of California, Riverside, 2007), which is underrevision and set to be published by McFarland as Superheroes of the Round Table: Comics Connections to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. While writing his dissertation, Jason was also interviewed for the online magazine Sequential Tart.

“Spenser and the Comics Critic.” International Journal of Comic Art (vol 11, number 1: Spring 2009).

“Grant Morrison’s Grail Quest.” National Popular Culture and American Culture
Associations Conference (Comic and Comic Art Section). San Francisco, CA: April,
2008.

“Spenser’s Secret Identities: Arthegall and Talus the Yron Man.” National Popular
Culture and American Culture Associations Conference (Comic and Comic Art Section).
Boston, MA: March, 2007.

“Hwaet If: Beowulf as Comic Book Superhero.” Beowulf #4. San Diego: IDW
Publishing, 2007.

“The Superheroic Romance: A New Look at the Question of Genre.” National Popular
Culture and American Culture Associations Conference (Comic and Comic Art Section).
Atlanta, GA: March, 2006.

"Understanding Dante: Comics in the Commedia." National Popular Culture and
American Culture Associations Conference (Comic and Comic Art Section). San Diego,
CA: March, 2005.

“Hamlet on a Rooftop.” National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Conference (Comic and Comic Art Section). San Antonio, TX: April, 2004.

“Douce 104: A Comics Criticism Approach.” 10th (Dis)junctions Graduate Humanities
Conference. Riverside, CA: April, 2003.

“Holy Hagiography! Medieval Mystics and the Superhero.” 24th Southwest/Texas
Popular Culture Association Meeting (Medievalisms Section), Albuquerque, NM:
February, 2003.

“Camelot in Comics.” King Arthur in Popular Culture, ed. Elizabeth Sklar and Donald
Hoffman. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2002. 169-181.

“Carnival in Comics.” 34th Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
Meeting. Las Vegas, NV: May, 2002.

“The Four Color King is Dead,” 32nd Popular Culture/24th Annual American Culture Association Meeting (Arthurian Studies Section). Toronto, Ontario: March 13-16, 2002.

“Camelot in Comics.” National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Conference (Arthurian Studies Section). Philadelphia, PA: April, 2001.

“Return of the Four Color King: Arthurian Comics in the Year 2000.” National Popular
Culture and American Culture Associations Conference (Arthurian Studies Section). New Orleans, LA: April, 2000.

American Arthurian Medievalisms
Sponsor: The Medieval Association of the Midwest
Organizer: Peter H. Goodrich, Northern Michigan Univ.
"A Four-Color King: Arthur as American Comic Book Superhero." International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 1999.

“Four Color Kings: Arthur as Comic Book Superhero.” National Popular Culture and
American Culture Associations Conference (Arthurian Studies Section). San Diego, CA:
April, 1999.

“Blood in the Gutters: the Impact of Visual Storytelling on the Arthur Narrative.” Far West Popular Culture Association Meeting. Las Vegas, NV: Feb. 1999.

Medieval Comics Scholarship 2010

Getting closer to now:

Forty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 13–16, 2010

Global Progeny
Sponsor: Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages
(SCGMA)
Organizer: Gabriel Gryffyn, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
The Percival Complex: Understanding the Role of the Imperfect Hero in the Global Popularity of Juvenile Manga Series
Lorna Wolcott Cooper, Lubbock Christian Univ.

Medievalism in Music and the Fine Arts
Sponsor: Studies in Medievalism
Organizer: Richard Utz, Western Michigan Univ.
Jeff Smith’s “Bone”: Revising Tolkien and Lewis’s Antimodernist Fantasies
Andrew Taylor, Western Michigan Univ.


2010 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
March 31 – April 3, 2010
Renaissance Grand Hotel St. Louis

“Darkly Dreaming Dexter and the Incredible Hulk: Modern Gothic Mutations of Stevenson’s Iconic Doppelganger” (?)
Matthew English
(Presented under the Gothic in Literature, Film, & Culture Area)

“'The Past and Future King!': Camelot 3000, Context, and the Limits of Adaptation”
Dion Cautrell, University of Nebraska at Kearney
(Presented under the Arthurian Legends Area)

“Her Guardiner: Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing as the Green Man” (?)
Colin Beineke, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(Presented under the Comic Art & Comics Area)

Medieval Comics Scholarship 2009

STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 8-10, 2009

“The Dragon Ne Dyeth Nat: Alchemical Sins and Sacrifice in 'The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale’ and Full Metal Alchemist.”
Lorna Wolcott Cooper, Texas Tech University

Medieval Comics Scholarship 2005

Fortieth International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 5–8, 2005

Pop Cultural Medievalism in the Late, Long Twentieth Century
Sponsor: Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
Organizer: Brent Addison Moberly, Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–
Bloomington

Professor A and the X-Men: Augustine of Hippo’s Neo-Platonic Demonology
Matthew McConnel, Western Michigan Univ.

Medieval Comics Scholarship 2006

PCA / ACA 2006
Atlanta, GA

The Once and Future Queen: Reincarnating Femininity in Camelot 3000
Christine Neufeld, Eastern Michigan University
(Presented under the Arthurian Legends Area)

Medieval Comics Scholarship 2007

Now from 2007:

Culture and the Medieval King
University of Northern Iowa: April 13, 2007

The Noble Eightfold Path to Camelot: Samsara and Nirvana in Camelot 3000
Matt Bloom, University of Northern Iowa

Mike W. Barr and Brian Bolland’s graphic novel Camelot 3000 tells the story of King Arthur and his knights’ return in the year 3000. The majority of the characters have all undergone the process of reincarnation; their souls reside in new bodies, oftentimes quite different from the ones they knew when they first served with Arthur. Reunited with their king, the knights attempt to not only
defend Earth from Morgan Le Fay and her alien army, but to build a bright new Camelot which will encompass the whole world. This effort ultimately proves futile, however, as the baggage of the knights’ past lives continuously weigh them down, causing them to repeat past sins and to sabotage present endeavors.

The struggles that the knights experience in their new lives serves as a metaphor for samsara, the process of rebirth taught in Eastern religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. In samsara, a person is continuously reborn into new lives, with the ultimate goal being to eventually shrug off worldly attachments and attain a blissful state of existence sometimes referred to as nirvana. For the Knights of the Round Table, that nirvana is Camelot itself, and their attachments to their own pasts are what prevents a new Camelot from being realized in the year 3000.

This paper will examine this metaphor in depth, looking especially at the over-attachment to the past found in Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, Morgan Le Fay and Modred. And to provide contrast, it will also examine the development of Tristan, the only character in Camelot 3000 who manages to let go of her past and subsequently find a form of bliss previously unobtainable to her.

2007 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
April 4 - 7, 2007
Boston Marriott Copley Place


The Symbiosis of Norse and Medieval Christian Eschatology in DC Vertigo’s Lucifer Series
Katherine Allocco, Western Connecticut State University
(Presented under the Medieval Popular Culture Area)

Further Comics Scholarship 2008

Here are some further examples of medieval comics scholarship presented at various conferences since 2000, when I started tracking them.

REGIONAL MEDIEVALISMS
AT WESLEYAN COLLEGE
The 23rd Annual Conference on Medievalism
October 9th - 11th, 2008

Excalibur as Science Object: Democratizing the Power behind the Arthurian Throne
Michelle Braun (Northeastern)

Magical objects frequently appear in Arthurian narratives and the object that appears most frequently in stories about King Arthur is his sword, Excalibur. In medieval and other Arthurian texts, Excalibur is a magical object, but in some contemporary iterations of the legend, Excalibur becomes a technological object, whose function can be explained by scientific principles. The graphic novel, Camelot 3000 (1988) reimagines Excalibur as a nuclear powered weapon, while A.A. Attanasio’s Arthurian tetrology (1996-1999) reveals the sword-in-the-stone episode as a trick made possible by manipulating a magnetic field. Both magic and science are forms of power, so that in translating Excalibur as a technical object, the reader is invited to share in the understanding of its power. These Arthurian narratives democratize the process of king-making by revealing it to be facilitated by science. Science is more democratic than magic (we teach it in our schools believing that anyone can learn science) and magic is most often represented as something that only certain people have a facility for and it is therefore a more exclusive pursuit. By re-imagining Excalibur as a technological, rather than a magical object, these Arthurian narratives become more democratic, reflecting the tastes and interests of their twentieth century readers. This paper will describe the use of science and technology as a means for explaining the king-making events involving Excalibur in two contemporary Arthurian tales. As a manifestation of power, Excalibur’s status as magical symbol shifts to technological tool in Attanasio’s work and Camelot 3000, but its essential function stays the same. These authors’ decision to use science and technology instead of magic to validate Arthur’s authority and reign, invites readers to participate in the legend by explaining it in language that twentieth century readers understand and value.

Manga and Medieval Romance: Bleach and Boys’ Tales
Lorna Cooper (Texas Tech)

Manga, or Japanese comics, is not only a new media that has emerged in the last few decades, but it is also a new outlet for medievalism. To say that a Western genre like the medieval chivalric romance has influenced the twentieth and twenty-first century Eastern popular culture phenomenon like Japanese manga could seem unfounded. A myth criticism study could easily be done comparing a hero comparing the heroes of chivalric romance to those of shonen (boys') manga. The fact that medievalism is appearing specifically in boys' manga is significant when one considers that the Arthurian tales in the Mabinogion are also widely speculated to be boys' tales. The root word "mab" means boy, leaving room to speculate that the tales were either for boys or about knights in their boyhood. A centuries-wide span still reveals that that chivalric tales are about boys and intended to inspire boys. Comparing twenty-first century manga with chivalric courtly romance reveals an almost identical treatment of the individual in his relation to his idealized abilities, nobility, other world journeys, training, friends, and love. The only topoi that seem to have changed over the centuries are the treatment of women who are allowed to be part of the warrior class and the hero whose weaknesses are more realistically portrayed. He is still the best, strongest, and most determined, but the audience is allowed to see him draw at a battle or be injured near death and undergo a long recovery process. Nonetheless, he is still the hero. In addition, his true love also shares the heroic spotlight. She is only worthy of the hero if she possess similar "supernatural" powers. I have chosen to examine the series Bleach out of a dozen boys' manga that contain numerous influences of medievalism.

22e Congrès de la Société Internationale Arthurienne
Rennes, 15-20 Juillet 2008

« Spanish Arthuriana and the treatment of its sources: form medieval romances to modern-day comics »
Juan Miguel ZARANDONA


Forty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 8–11, 2008

Arthur and Dilbert
Dominick Grace, Brescia Univ. College
(Presented as part of Mass Media Arthuriana: The Matter of Britain in Modern Popular Culture, a session sponsored by The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages)


2008 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
March 19 – 22, 2008
San Francisco Marriott

“Lady Death, Lady Pendragon and the Battleaxes: the Peculiar Guidelines for Medieval Women with Power in Modern Comic Books”
Katherine Allocco, Western Connecticut State University
(Presented under the Medieval Popular Culture Area)

“Playing with Gender in Arthur, King of Time and Space”
Christina Francis, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
(Presented under the Arthurian Legends Area; published as "Playing with Gender in Arthur, King of Time and Space" in Arthuriana 20.4.)

Presentations/Publications by Michael A Torregrossa

My focus has been mostly on Arthurian comics but at times I've expanded to look at the larger corpus of medieval-themed comics.

“Prince Valiant and Beyond: (Re-)Assessing the Corpus of Medieval-Themed Comics.” “Love, Friendship, Marriage”: 32th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth State University (Plymouth, NH). 16 April 2011.

“Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man in King Arthur’s Court: A Way into the Corpus of Arthurian-Themed Comics.” Presented under The Beowulf to Shakespeare: Popular Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Area. 2009 Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Hilton Boston Logan Airport (Boston, MA). 7 November 2009.

“America’s First Arthurian-Inspired Superhero: Quality Comics’ Merlin the Magician (1940-42).” Presented under The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area. 2009 Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Queensborough Community College, CUNY (Bayside, NY). 24 October 2009.

“Contextualizing King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942): The Matter of Britain as World War II Propaganda: Focus on Ace Magazine’s The Sword (1942-45).” Presented as part of “Medievalisms at War I,” a session sponsored by The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 8 May 2009.

“Introducing the Medium,” “The Medieval Comics Project: Defining the Corpus (Again),” and “Using Comics in Your Teaching and Research.” PowerPoint presentations presented as part of “The Comics Get Medieval at Kalamazoo: A Workshop on the Comics Medium in the Medieval Studies Classroom and Medievalist Research,” a session sponsored by The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 10 May 2008.

“Holy Grail, Batman! The Use (and Abuse) of the Grail Legend in the DC Comics Universe.” Presented as part of “The Grail in Popular Culture,” a session sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch, and organized by Janina P. Traxler of Manchester College. 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 8 May 2008.

“Undead Arthuriana: Vampires and the Matter of Britain.” Presented as part of “Manuscripts, Monsters, and Medievalism,” a session sponsored by the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages for the Medievalism in Popular Culture Area and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 2007 Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Clark University (Worcester, MA). 27 October 2007.

“Lost in the Stargate? The Matter of Britain in Science Fiction Film and Television Programming.” Presented as part of “Cinema Arthuriana: Old and New,” a session sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch, and organized by Peter H. Goodrich of Northern Michigan University. 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 5 May 2006.

"Comics." In “The Arthurian Legend in Literature, Popular Culture, and the Performing Arts, 1999-2004.” Eds. Raymond H. Thompson and Norris J. Lacy. Arthurian Literature 22 (2005). Print, ISBN 1-84384-062-6. (This listing is the fourth supplement to The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris J. Lacy [New York: Garland, 1991].)

“A ‘Marvel’-ous Morgan: Phillip De Guere’s Dr. Strange (1978), a Forgotten Example of Cinema Arthuriana.” Presented as part “Arthurian Film,” a session sponsored by the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 28th Annual New England Popular Culture Association Conference, Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, CT). 29 October 2005.

“Holy Grail, Batman! The Dark Knight Detective in King Arthur’s Court—DC Comics’ Batman and the Arthurian Legend.” Presented as part of “The Comics Get Medieval 2005,” a session sponsored by the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and the Arthurian Legend, the Comics & Comic Art, and the Medieval Popular Culture Areas of the Popular Culture Association and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 35th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina (San Diego, CA). 24 March 2005.

“Once and Future Kings: The Return of King Arthur in the Comics.” In Adapting the Arthurian Legends for Children: Essays on Arthurian Juvenilia. Ed. Barbara Tepa Lupack. Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Series ed. Bonnie Wheeler. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 243-262.

“The Many Returns of King Arthur during World War Two: King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) and Its Contexts.” Presented as part of “Heroes and Heroism in Medieval Films at War,” a session sponsored by The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. War in Film, Television, and History: 3rd Biennial Conference of the Film & History League, American Airlines Training & Conference Center (Dallas, TX). 12 November 2004.

“The Comics Get Medieval: Defining the Corpus.” Presented as part of a “Medieval Classics Illustrated: Using the Comics to Teach Medieval Legends and Text (A Roundtable),” a session sponsored by the Arthurian Comics Discussion List/Society for the Arthurian Popular Culture Studies and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 9 May 2004.

“Visions of Merlin in Four Colors: Illustrating the Legend of Merlin in the Comics.” Presented as part of “Arthurian Illustration,” a session sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch, and organized by Donald L. Hoffman of Northeastern Illinois University. 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 10 May 2003.

“The Women of Camelot in Four Colors: Representations of Arthurian Women in the Comics Medium.” Presented under the Arthurian Legends Area. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association Conference, Marriott Hotel (New Orleans, LA). 17 April 2003.

"Comics." In “Arthurian Literature, Art, and Film, 1995-1999.” Eds. Norris J. Lacy and Raymond H. Thompson. Arthurian Literature 18 (2001): 193-255. Print. ISBN 0-85991-617-0. (This listing is the third supplement to The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris J. Lacy [New York: Garland, 1991].)

“Professor Pendragon and His Uncanny X-Knights of the Round Table: The Use and Abuse of the Arthurian Legend by Marvel Comics.” Presented as part of “The Medieval in Popular Culture,” a session organized by Michael G. Cornelius of the University of Rhode Island. English Studies and the Uses of Popular Culture III, University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI). 27 October 2001.

“An Abundance of Arthurs: The Myth of the Return of King Arthur in the Comicbook Medium.” Camelot 2000: A Millennial Conference on the Arthurian Legends, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY). 26 October 2000. (Portions incorporated, with extensive revision, in my essay “Once and Future Kings? The Return of King Arthur in the Comics” [2004].)

“Camelot 3000 and Beyond: An Annotated Listing of Arthurian Comic Books Published in the United States c. 1980-1998. Revised ed. (May 2000).” Part of The Arthuriana / Camelot Project Bibliographies. Maintained by Alan Lupack. University of Rochester, May 2000. Available at http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/acpbibs/comicbib.htm. Web.

“Merlin at the Multiplex: A Filmography of Merlin in Arthurian Film, Television and Videocassette 1920-1998.” In 1999 Film & History CD-ROM Annual. Eds. Peter C. Rollins, John E. O’Connor, and Deborah A. Carmichael. Cleveland, OK: Film & History, 1999. 31 pp. CD-ROM. ISBN 0-641775-6-8.

“Camelot 3000 and Beyond: An Annotated Listing of Arthurian Comic Books Published in the United States c. 1980-1998.” In Modern and Post-Modern Arthurian Literature. Ed. John Matthews. Spec. issue of Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies 9.1 (Spring 1999): 67-109. Print. ISSN 0890-4944.

Robin Hood Comics Scholarship

I've been working recently on assessing the history of medieval comics scholarship. Here are the details based on the various meetings of The International Association for Robin Hood Studies based at The University of Rochester. I had access to all of the programs but that for 2007 and 2011 (to be held July 8-10).

Playing with Transgression: Cultural Transformations of Robin Hood
at The University of Rochester
16-18 October 1997

"Robin Hood and Green Arrow: Outlaw Bowmen in the Modern Urban Landscape"
Sarah Beach (Los Angeles, CA)
(Published in Robin Hood in Popular Culture: Violence, Transgression, and Justice, ed. Thomas Hahn [D. S. Brewer, 2000])


Robin Hood: Past and Present, Local and Global
The Second International Conference of Robin Hood Studies
Nottingham, 14th - 18th July, 1999

‘"Begone, Knave! Robbery is out of Fashion Hereabouts!": Robin Hood in 1950s Comic Books’
Allen W. Wright


The Third Biennial Robin Hood Conference
The University of Western Ontario
May 31-June 2, 2001

"The Archer Explodes: Green Arrow, Social(ist) Justice, and the Reinvention of
the Playboy Comic Book Adventurer,1970-1986"
Jonathan Stover (UWO)


IMAGES OF ROBIN HOOD
Fifth Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies
September 29 to October 2, 2005
University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware)

Robin Hood Comic Books From the 1970s to the Present
Allen Wright, Mohawk College


ROBIN HOOD: MEDIA CREATURE
The Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies
October 22-25, 2009
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (USA)

“Investigating the Robin Hood/Green Arrow Identity Crisis”
Jeff Kirchoff (Bowling Green State University)

“Spin-Offs and Stand-Alones: The Co-Dependency of Robin Hood Comics”
John H. Chandler (University of Rochester)

“The Secret Origin of Robin Hood” (?)
Allen W. Wright (Independent Scholar)