Adam Haley, PhD

CONFERENCE TALK: I Sing the Body Comic: Breaking the Skinned Surfaces of Empaneled Corporeality

How do the interplay of surface and depth in sequential art—the static image whose depths are revealed or implied in juxtaposition, sequencing, and textual accompaniment—render a theory of the body, and of the relationship between the body’s inside and outside? How does the human body in graphic narratives function as a site for boundary-crossings between insides and outsides of all kinds—not just skin and viscera, but publics and privates, revelations and secrets, the presented and the withheld?