[Comicsstudiessociety] April 30: comics as the new form of protest art... Discussion

[Mike Rhode]

The Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop,
Rice University, Houston, and Printed Matter, NYC,

invite you to join






*SUE COE | CHRISTOPHER SPERANDIO|RYAN STANDFEST | STAN WANYfor a discussion
about comics as the new form of protest art...and the artist as publishing
auteur*


*FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1 PM EST*



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*About the Panelists*

The artist *Sue Coe* has found a way to serve a broad audience through
printmaking, disseminating her messages through affordably-priced prints
accessible to people of all financial means. Numerous books and visual
essays published over the years have served a similar purpose, including
*Cruel*, a critical look at the animal industry, built upon her
groundbreaking *Dead Meat *(1996), and *The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto*,
published in 2016, featuring 100 original woodcuts and linocuts. *American
Fascism Now, *published in October 2020 by Rotland Press, presents 16
linocut prints with text by the art historian Stephen F. Eisenman.  Coe’s
work has been recognized by a number of major awards and her 2018 solo
exhibition at MoMA PS1, “Sue Coe: Graphic Resistance,” received rave
reviews. Since 2016, the artist has focused on documenting the misdeeds of
the Trump administration.

Next month, the artist *Christopher Sperandio* releases his latest graphic
novel, GREENIE JOSEPHENIE (Argle Bargle, Ottawa, Canada) about a super
heroine who wages war against global conglomerates. He has long addressed
issues of labor and class inequality and is an obsessive on comic history
and production, having made his first comic strip-inspired font more than
25 years ago and produced/co-produced more than 20 comic books. Sperandio
is the founder of CATS, the Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop at Rice
University, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art.

*Ryan Standfest* is an artist, arts writer, and the editor-in-chief and
publisher of Rotland Press, which presents satirical publications of a
culturally relevant nature, including the recently released THE PLAGUE
REVIEW, a digest of pandemic dispatches, humor and musing. His publications
and prints are in numerous major collections, and his work has been
exhibited widely, both in the United States and abroad. Standfest has
penned criticism and essays for the Detroit arts and culture journal *Infinite
Mile*, *Detroit Art Review*, and *Essay’d*. He contributed a chapter on
André Breton and l'humour noir to the book *Radical Dreams: Surrealism,
Counterculture, Resistance*, edited by Elliott H. King and Abigail Susik,
forthcoming from Penn State University Press in 2021. Websites:
ryanstandfest.com (studio) and rotlandpress.com (publishing).

*Stanley Wany* is a multidisciplinary artist whose main focus is creating
graphic novels. His practice also includes experimentation in painting and
ink. He holds a degree in arts and design from the Université du Québec en
Outaouais where he also founded Trip magazine. In 2016, his first graphic
novel, *Agalma*, was nominated for a Doug Wright Award (Toronto Comics and
Arts Festival) for best alternative comic, and for a Prix Expozine
(Expozine, independent editors’ festival in Montreal). Past trips include
the Helsinki Comics Festival (Finland), the Festival de bande dessinée
d’Angoulême (France), the Festival de bande dessinée de Colomiers (France),
and Amadora BD: International Comics Festival (Portugal). He was an artist
in residence at the Arteles Creative Centre in May 2018 and in the latter
part the same year, he was awarded a creation grant from the Canada Council
for the Arts for the production of his next graphic novel.
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