Julie Stile and Zara Wilkinson are putting the finishing touches on the Paul Robeson Library’s programming for the ever-popular Camden Comic Con. The event takes place on April 9 at Rutgers University-Camden and this is a taste of what’s in the works:
Real Geek Girls: Celebrating Women in Fandom and Fiction (11 a.m. -12:15 p.m.)
Ariell Johnson, owner, Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse Claire Folkman and Kelly Phillips, editors, Dirty Diamonds: An All-Girl Comics Anthology, and Feliza Casano, editor in chief, Girls in Capes
Rutgers-Camden Faculty Spotlight (1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.)
“Remembering RaceFail09: Why Race Should Matter in SFF”
Dr. Keith Green, associate professor of English, director of Africana studies
“Skyrim’s Neomedievalist Fantasy”
Dr. Aaron Hostetter, assistant professor of English
Rabble Rousing at Rutgers (3:15 p.m. – 4 p.m.)
Brian Phillips and Bria Troutman will present a student-created graphic novel documenting the 1968 black student protests at Rutgers University-Camden.
