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Celebrating its 25th year at San Diego, the Comics Arts Conference turns a more critical eye toward the art and business of comics. We caught up with the primary organizer and co-chair, Kathleen McClancy in March.
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I am Kathleen McClancy and I'm the primary organizer and co-chair of the Comics Arts Conference
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I'm also an assistant professor of Film and Media Studies at Texas State University in
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San Francisco. The CAC is on its 25th year of existence now. We have programming both at WonderCon, which I think we've been doing for maybe eight or
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nine years, I'm not entirely sure, and at ComicCon. The original idea behind the CAC was to essentially kind of expand the conversation about comics
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so it's not just isolating in academic communities or isolating in family communities, but to
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bring all of those people together. So part of the reason why the original organizers, Peter Coogan and Randy Duncan, decided to
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set the conference at ComicCon as opposed to somewhere else was to be able to bring
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in creators, writers and artists from the comic book industry, as well as fans, and
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kind of have a public humanities role. Comics are also very interesting in terms of their distribution and production because
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they are such a mass medium and there are so much of, particularly mainstream comics
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is guided by the demands of the market in ways that say literature is not
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They are collaborative in the same way that film is, but on a much more limited scale
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Mainstream comics also have historically been produced in a very interesting way, right
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in this kind of assembly line, you know, like from a script to a pencil or to an ink or
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to a colors to a letter or all of whom are different people
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So, I think that's a really interesting way to kind of bring people together and to
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have a conversation about what's going on in the world of comics. I think that's a really interesting way to bring people together and to have a conversation
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about what's going on in the world of comics. I think that's a really interesting way to bring people together and to have a conversation
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about what's going on in the world of comics. I think that's a really interesting way to bring people together and to have a conversation
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about what's going on in the world of comics. I think that's a really interesting way to bring people together and to have a conversation
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about what's going on in the world of comics. I think that's a really interesting way to bring people together and to have a conversation
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about what's going on in the world of comics. I think that's a really interesting way to bring people together and to have a conversation
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about what's going on in the world of comics. I think that's a really interesting way to bring people together and to have a conversation
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about what's going on in the world of comics. I think that's a really interesting way to bring people together and to have a conversation
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about what's going on in the world of comics. I think that's a really interesting way to bring people together and to have a conversation
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about what's going on in the world of comics. I think that's a really interesting way to bring people together and to have a conversation
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about what's going on in the world of comics
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