Monday, November 21, 2016

Response to lectures from the Miami Book Fair International's Destination Comics program



The panels I attended were “Child’s-Eye View: Memories and Memoirs of Youth” and then “They Shoot Black People, Don’t They?: A Cartoonist’s Look at Police Brutality in the U.S.”
     
     The first panel gave me confirmation to the stance of how every aspect of a comic effects how the narrative and feel of it comes across. During the panel Meags Fitzgerald mentioned how she drew with pencil for the chapters where it’s her as a child – in her book Long Red Hair – and then drew with a pen for the chapters in which she is an adult. She also mentioned how the book is duotone which calls back to how the book is about two senses of self.
     I really enjoyed the second penal and definitely learned a few things about the topic of police brutality and racism that I didn’t know of beforehand. Keith Knight mostly uses humor to deliver a message and start a conversation about these topics and does it very well might I say. For those that didn’t attend this panel I really recommend taking a look at Knight’s comics.

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