The Villainess Goes to…ComicCon?

Imagine my surprise when someone pointed this out to me in the ComicCon 2007 schedule:

Saturday 1:00-2:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #11: High Art and Low—Richard Becker (CSU Northridge) discusses the nature of the narrator and authorial self-insertions in comics, like those of Lee and Kirby, Gerber, and Morrison, and the schism between schools of storytelling in which the writer is very visible and another in which the writer seeks to be completely invisible. John A. Walsh (Indiana University) examines Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol stories and their punctuation by appearances of and allusions to similarly fracture, damaged, and outcast artists and works and asks whether the members of the Doom Patrol are artists or heroes and if there’s a difference. Jason Mott (UNC-Wilmington) uncovers the history of comic book superheroes and traces their evolution from serving purely as devices of metaphor for poets to becoming the subject of extended development and progression by award-winning poets such as Brian Dietrich in Krypton Nights and Jeannine Hall in Becoming the Villainess. Room 30AB

Very close to this listing: the Q&A with the Heroes cast and crew. Hee! Yes, I’m missing a last name, but it makes me more mysterious…

Wish I was going to be in San Diego in two weeks!

PS It’s 100 degrees today. So I’m going to see Harry Potter!