PRESENTATIONS Please click on paper titles to read each presenter's abstract. Presenter Conference Paper Title Affiliation Barish Ali The Mutilation and Exhibition of History in From Hell Buffalo Henry Butler Caricature and Cognition in Comic Art Florida James Carter, Mark Bernard Who Teaches The Watchmen? UT-Knoxville Isaac Cates David Boring: Loose Threads and Five-Card Nancy Yale Jeanne Ewert Art Spiegelman's Maus and the Graphic Narrative Gainesville Sean Fenty, Treena Houp, Laurie Taylor Pressing and Stressing Boundaries Florida Charles Hatfield Visual Stereotyping in Comic Art, or, The Necessary Evil? CSU Northridge Thomas Inge Introduction to Will Eisner Keynote Randolph Macon College Susanah Mandel What exactly do we mean by "a novel"? MIT Jeffrey Miller Demythologizing Koboyashi Yoshinori's On Taiwan Utica College Scott Nygren Manga Space: The Graphic Inflection of Digital Imaging Florida Joseph Price Jason Lutes: Vanishing Points Yale Jennifer Razee Perspectives on Family in Strangers in Paradise Florida John F.Ronan George Cruikshank, Graphic Novelist ? Florida Jeffrey Seymour Comics as Cartography: Lost and Found in Hicksville Yale Herschel Shepard Page Against the Machine Florida David Steiling Reading on the Margins of the Graphic Novel Ringling School Maureen Turim Une Semaine de Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage Florida Waldomiro Verguiero Forging a Sustainable Comics Industry   Michael Wenthe The Jew of New York: Sound Effects, Sense and Nonsense Yale Joseph Witek Artists Roundtable Moderator Stetson Julian Wolfreys The Graphic Novel Florida