Presenter Conference Paper Title Affiliation Rebecca Boggs Escape to or from the Underground?: A European Eye on the Promise and Perils of "der Comicuntergrund" Yale Isaac Cates "Truth Effects" in Jack Jackson's and Rick Geary's Nineteenth Centuries Yale Corey Creekmur The Underground Negro: Race and Racism in Comix Iowa Craig Fischer "So Demanding of 'Purity'?": Verbal-Visual Combinations and Text Types in Justin Green's Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary Appalachian State University Andrew Gordon Jewish Fathers and Sons in Spiegelman's Maus and Roth's Patrimony Florida Charles Hatfield The Presence of the Artist: Kim Deitch's Comix vis-a-vis the Animated Cartoon California State University Northridge Michael Hill Down Under Ground: Emotional and Oppositional Outpourings from Sydney's Subculture in the Comics of Glenn Smith UTS Dolly Joseph The Economics of the Underground: The Publishing and Distribution of Alternatives from the 70s to Today. UVA Charles Hatfield, Joseph Witek, Gene Kannenberg, Jr. Roundtable Discussion -- A Virtual Preface to _ComiX with an X: Critical Responses to American Underground Comics_ California State University Northridge, Stetson University, University of Houston - Downtown William S. Kartalopolous Systems of Styles: Multiple Representations in Maus and Other Works   Martha Kuhlman The Poetics of the Page: City of Glass, the graphic novel Bryant Michelle LaFrance Surface Desires Surface for LTR: Formations of Identity, Belonging, and Desire in Julie Doucet's Long Time Relationship Washington Jennifer Razee and Michelle LeSure Honkytonk Sue: Life after the Undergrounds Ain't All Bisquits and Gravy Florida John F. Ronan The Underground Press Syndicate and Undeground Comix Florida Davide Lombardo Demonic gazettes: Italian graffiti from the 1848 revolution European University Institute of Florence Brian Meredith, Cliff Steele's Coat: the Genre Comic and its Outcasts Florida Ana Merino Eve versus Lilith, Underground versus Alternative: The representation of women through the male eye, from Fear to Love. Appalachian State University Scott Nygren Impossible Sexualities: Atrocity, Abjection and the Limits of Representation in 'Underground' Manga Florida Laurie Taylor, Trena Houp, Sean Fenty, and Brian Clevinger Webcomics and the Underground Florida Leonard Rifas Educational Comix Seattle Central Community College Jeff Seymour Honesty in the Underground: Then and Now Yale David Steiling Stoned, Tripping and Blotto: Icons of Altered Consciousness in the Underground Comics Ringling Colege of Art and Design Maureen Turim "I Don't Want to Die an Idiot': Desire, Sex,, Revolution, and Male Self-examination in Wolinski's Mai 68 Comic Commentaries Florida Carl Waluconis, Pauline Escudero-Shafer, Leonard Rifas What do Underground Comix talk about when they talk about race? Seattle Central Community College Michael Wenthe "It's only lines on paper, folks!": Self-referentiality as method and subject in the work of R. Crumb Yale