![]() ![]() His research interests include cultural globalisation, audience-studies, and Asian/Australian popular culture flows. I focus on the work of a number of manga fan-artists based in Sydney whose work appears in fan-zines, online, and on more unusual surfaces such as car-body art work.īio: Craig Norris is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Sydney. I compare these producer-dominated ‘erased’ manga with the ‘redrawn’ manga of fan artists throughout Australia. ![]() Using my two years of field research in Tokyo I argue that the export agenda of Japanese animation distributors is based on the erasure of Japanese racial characteristics and life-style to allow for easier localisation of animation and comics such as Astro Boy, Poke-Mon and Dragonball Z (Iwabuchi, 1998). As a wide-ranging group of artists, their repertoire houses a mix of graphic styles and comic art genres and their attitude has strains of ‘larrikin’ and ‘ratbag’ humour.īio: Michael Hill is Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Unit at UTS and partner in Graber Hill, publisher of the independent comic B.L.A.CK.Ĭraig Norris- Manga in Australia: erasing and re-animating JapanĪbstract: The export of manga (Japanese comics) from Japan to Australia is a journey from erasing race and culture to redrawing ideal bodies and communities. In so doing, they take advantage of what is a relatively unregulated outlet of creativity and visual communication. In contrast to the mainstream print media, many of the artists, creators and cartoonists involved antagonise, irritate and ridicule with their graphic humour and horror, provoking irreverent laughter as well as an element of fear and amazement within their limited audience. ![]() Michael Hill- Bite of the Mongrel Breed: A Study of Satire in Contemporary Australian Alternative ComicsĪbstract: This paper involves an examination of the contemporary Australian alternative comics scene as a lively form of lampooning and derision in the late 20th Century. Send enquiries and proposals, by email only, to either of the conference coordinators: Jeremy Allen: or Michael Hill: Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Design, University of Technology, Sydney. The conference will adopt a multidisciplinary approach and welcomes papers from a broad range of disciplines. Scholars are invited to submit 250 word proposals which address alternative approaches to comics, whether local or global, recent or historical, online or offline, artistic or commercial. ![]() SEQUENTIAL ART STUDIES CONFERENCE, Sydney, Australia, ApSUPANOVA POP CULTURE EXPO Sydney Showground, April 20-21 2002 This inaugural scholarly conference on comics will take place on the day preceding Australia’s largest comics convention and will be associated with that event. This was, to my knowledge, the first scholarly conference on comics studies to be held in Australia, more than 3 years prior “Men In Tights” conference at Melbourne University in 2005 that also makes this claim! The conference poster was designed by BOWB. Thank you Will! Convened by Jeremy Allen and myself, with panels chaired by Jeremy, Spiros Tsaousis and I the conference was held in association with Supanova Pop Culture Expo with support from Daniel Zachariou. The conference was named after the descriptive term for comics, sequential art, introduced by Will Eisner in 1985. Ten years ago almost to the day this event, the first Sequential Art Studies Conference took place on Apin Sydney at the University of Technology. ![]()
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