BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:1.0 BEGIN: VEVENT DTSTART:20060723T113000TZ:-06 DTEND:20060723T130000TZ:-06 LOCATION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Room 7B UID:20060723-113000-00000000000-0370 DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Contributors to the Ever-Ending Battle Symposium, published in the International Journal of Comic Art (Spring 2006), apply thanatology—the study of death and dying, particularly its application to the bereaved or mourning—to the serial storytelling of sequential art and the cultural depictions of death in superhero comics. Jose Alaniz (University of Washington), Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg (Geppi's Entertainment Museum), William Duffy (SUNY Buffalo), Wilbur Farley (SUNY Stony Brook), Abraham Kawa (Aegean University), and Michael Niederhausen (Cuyahoga Community College) explore the deaths of Captain Marvel and Gwen Stacey, the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and the ways epics can be used to understand superhero comics. SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Comic Arts Conference Session #12: Ever-Ending Battle Symposium PRIORITY:3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR