The brand new issue of TwoMorrow’s JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR (#59) that has my AUTEUR THEORY OF COMICS verbal/visual version of my essay—it’s available at www.twomorrows.com as a digital download, or buy it at the SD Comicon this week!

Which is where I’ll be when I’ll be presenting the following panel:

JACK KIRBY AND THE AUTEUR THEORY OF COMICS!  Comic book historian Arlen Schumer (author, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) and Rand Hoppe (The Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center) present their theory that, just like a film’s director, not its screenwriter, is considered its true author (auteur in French), so should a comic book artist be considered the auteur of any comic book work done in collaboration with a writer (or a script in any verbal form) and therefore a de facto co-creator and co-author, with the credited writer, of that work. Joining them are editor/publisher John Morrow (The Jack Kirby Collector), comics scholar Charles Hatfield (the new Kirby bio Hand of Fire), and auteur film theorist Craig Fischer (Appalachian State).  

Friday, July 13th,1:30-2:30, Room 26AB 

And wait’ll you see the 16-pg verbal/visual version of the essay (http://comicbookinterviews.com/2012/03/article-the-auteur-theory-of-comics/)  that Rand Hoppe of the online jack Kirby Museum (www.kirbymuseum.org) is printing in full-color as a 16-pg standalone piece, on sale at SDCC, to benefit the JK Museum!

And I’ll be “projecting” my Auteur Theory essay sequentially and reading the entire essay as a multimedia experience to open the panel! Must be SEEN to be BELIEVED! :)

San Diego Comicon, Comics Arts Conference Session #7, Friday, July 13th, 1:30-2:30, Room 26AB:

JACK KIRBY AND THE AUTEUR THEORY OF COMICS:

Comic book historian Arlen Schumer (author, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) and Randolph Hoppe (The Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center, www.kirbymuseum.org) present their theory that, just like a film’s director, not its screenwriter, is considered its true author (auteur in French), so should a comic book artist be considered the auteur of any comic book work done in collaboration with a writer (or a script in any verbal form) and therefore a de facto co-creator and co-author, with the credited writer, of that work. Joining them are editor/publisher John Morrow (The Jack Kirby Collector), comics scholar Charles Hatfield (the new Kirby bio Hand of Fire), and auteur film theorist Craig Fischer (Appalachian State). 

To read Schumer’s Auteur Theory of Comics essay: http://comicbookinterviews.com/2012/03/article-the-auteur-theory-of-comics/