Comic Invention Lunchtime Talks

Published: 8 March 2016

20 April - 6 July 2016

‌20 April - 6 July 2016
1.00pm - 1.15pm
Hunterian Art Gallery
Admission free

A series of special lunchtime talks given by experts and inspired by our Comic Invention exhibition.

First page of Vol. 1., No. 1: Glasgow Looking Glass, 1825 © University of Glasgow Special Collections.20 April
The Comic Invention Exhibition
Professor Laurence Grove, Professor of French and Text/Image Studies, University of Glasgow

27 April
Hogarth and the Comic Strip
Peter Black, The Hunterian

4 May
A Renaissance Super Hero? Comical adventures in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Julie Gardham, University Special Collections, University of Glasgow

11 May
Spiegelman’s Maus: Drawing the unshowable
Guillaume Lecomte, University of Glasgow

18 May
Rodolphe Töpffer: The World's Second Comic (and America's First)
Lise Tannahill, University of Glasgow

Girls’ Romances no. 78, DC Comics, September 1961. David A. Roach. © DC Comics.25 May
Using Comics to Engage with Science
Dr Vickie Curtis, University of Glasgow

‌1 June
Anti-Scottish Prints: Anonymous trolling in the Golden Age of Caricature
Bob MacLean, University Library, University of Glasgow

8 June
Abraham and Superman: Quite Frankly, they belong together
Zanna Domoney-Lyttle, Hunterian Associate

15 June
No-one Does it Better: Frank Quitely and The Birds of Prey
Cia Jackson, University of Glasgow

22 June
The World’s First Comic?
Nyla Ahmad, University of Glasgow

29 June
Looking back on Comic Invention
Professor Laurence Grove, Professor of French and Text/Image Studies, University of Glasgow

6 July
Rembrandt the story teller
Peter Black, The Hunterian

First published: 8 March 2016

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