Building Comics Community Before The Internet

09/14/2024 | 12:30pm – 1:30pm | White Flint Amphitheater

Before the internet facilitated interaction and community for cartoonists worldwide, there were still networks that drew them together. From the page of seminal zine Factsheet Five to a mail network that criss-crossed the globe to dozens of alt-weekly newspapers that disseminated comics, the cartoonists who emerged at the height of the first zine explosion established the groundwork for what was to come. Tom Hart of the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) has been capturing the experiences of the cartoonists who were there, and he’ll join panelists Ariel Bordeaux (Deep Girl, Clutter), Anders Nilsen (Tongues, Big Questions), Carol Lay (My Time Machine, Story Minute), and Peter Kuper (Ruins, World War III Illustrated) as they discuss their varied experiences in establishing comics community.

Panelists: Ariel Bourdeaux, Anders Nilsen, Carol Lay, Peter Kuper