Hi.  I ran a Google search today on the unpublished 1970s DC Legends of King
Arthur series.  It seems that an article ran recently in BACK ISSUE.

Details:
http://www.google.com/search?q=nestor+redondo+%22LEGEND+OF+KING+ARTHUR%22&hl=en&\
rlz=1B2RNFA_enUS221US222&filter=0

Michael

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The unpublished 1970s DC "Legends of King Arthur" was featured in BACK  ISSUE
with some great shots of the art.  Oh, what might have  been!  Through the
years, a couple of pages have also sold on  eBay.

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Hi.  I recently picked up a copy of the 12-page story "The Rumors of the
Round Table" starring the Golden Age Green Lantern.  I tried posting it the
the files section but the scans seem too big.  Any suggestions?

Michael

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Hello,

The Arthur of the Comics web site goes live in 2008, and I am in need of
help with the initial phase: Platinum and Golden Age comics with Arthurian
themes.  Please send scans or information to me.  I've gathered some comics
recently from eBay and will be posting some of these to the list home page.
There are also a number available from a file sharing site: Golden Age
Comics Downloads <http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/>.

Regarding my earlier post today, I figured out how to reduce the size of my
scans, and I have uploaded the following to the files section of the
homepage.  I think you need a Yahoo account to access them.  Both are
variants of Twain's Connecticut Yankee, with the Batman being (I've argued)
directly inspired by the Will Rogers film.  For credits see the link
provided from The Grand Comics Database Project.

Michael

"Sir Batman at King Arthur's Court" from Batman #36/7 (Aug.-Sept. 1946)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arthurian_comixlist/files/Sir%20Batman%20%40%20Kin\
gArthur%27sCourt/
http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=5306

"Rumors of the Round Table" from All-American Comics #72 (April 1946)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arthurian_comixlist/files/Rumors%20of%20the%20Roun\
d%20Table/
http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=4974

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Hi.  A review of the Grand Comics Database and Golden Age Comics Downloads
suggests that Merlin only appears in numbers 1-26 and not through the
complete run of NATIONAL COMICS as Overstreet suggests.

Michael

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Coming soon:

GARGOYLES (2006) #8
	 Issue: 8
(Amaze Ink)

GARGOYLES #8
by Greg Weisman & David Hedgecock 'Clan-Building,' Chapter 7. From
the Holy Land to the British Isles everyone wants a piece of the
Rock. Xanatos, Macbeth, Coldsteel, Thailog, Merlin, Cu Chullain and
the gargoyles strive to find it, possess it and learn its darkest
secrets.


Retail Price:$3.95 You Pay Only Or Less: $3.56
Maximum Discount: 10% (10% if ordered after Order Date)
Bonus Book: No
New Item: No
First Issue: No
Last Issue: No
Current Facilitated Crossover:
Order Date: 2007-09-29

Came across this on Amazon:

AVALON HIGH: CORONATION GN (2007) #1
	 Issue: 1
(Tokyo Pop (Formerly Mixx))

AVALON HIGH CORONATION VOL 1 MERLIN PROPHECY GN (OF 3)
Being a new student at Avalon High has been exciting for Ellie, to
say the least-she's an honor student, a star on the track team, and,
oh yeah, dating the super-hot class president, Will. Who also happens
to be the alleged reincarnation of King Arthur. Ellie couldn't be
happier to have Will in her life, but she's also worried that his
estrangement from his parents is tearing him apart. To make matters
worse, Will's doubt that he really is King Arthur could prevent the
Merlin Prophecy-an age of enlightenment-from occurring. Can Ellie
convince Will to believe in something that even she isn't sure about?
And more importantly, can she get him to give his parents another
chance? With all the mythology and mysticism of AVALON HIGH, Meg
Cabot's very first manga is indeed a tale for the ages. Sell Sheet
Keynote: Meg Cabot's magical Arthurian epic continues...MANGA STYLE!
Key Selling Points: � Online, In-Community advertising campaign on
TOKYOPOP.com prior to and through release month-will target core
manga audience. Featured online title complete with creator profiles,
blogs, teaser art, and serialized previews. Over 1MM impressions. �
Cross-promoted in Meg Cabot's blog, Harper's Meg Cabot fan list, and
in the Meg Cabot Avalon High release � By Meg Cabot, the critically
acclaimed author of many bestselling books for teens, including the
Princess Diaries books, the Mediator series, the 1-800-Where-R-You
series, All-American Girl, Ready or Not, Teen Idol, Avalon High, How
to Be Popular and Pants on Fire, as well as Nicola and the Viscount
and Victoria and the Rogue. � Will include a sample chapter of Meg
Cabot's latest release


Retail Price:$7.99 You Pay Only Or Less: $7.19
Maximum Discount: 10% (10% if ordered after Order Date)
Bonus Book: No
New Item: No
First Issue: No
Last Issue: No
Current Facilitated Crossover:
Order Date: 2007-03-29 (Item is now a late order)

Hi.  I came across some sample pages from Meg Cabot's AVALON HIGH manga
series.  Text with images can be found at
http://www.megcabot.com/avalonhigh/avalonhigh2.php.  The manga retails
for $8.

Michael

Hello everyone,

So I am working on my diss at last and today I got around to reading
the first volume of Knights of Pendragon. It seems deserving of
treatment; I have of course read Alan's page for it at Camelot in
Four Colors. What do you all think of it, and has anyone used it in
an article or paper?

Cheers
Jason Tondro
UC Riverside

Jason,

I plan to do more with the series at some point (starting with some
mention of Albion in WWII for PCA and the Grail arc for Kalamazoo).  I
do have some comments on it in Barbara Lupack's book.  I think that is
the only piece of scholarship to reference it (unless there is
something in the ARTHURIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA and its Supplements).  There
should also by an entry in the ARTHURIAN ANNALS.  I can send more
specifics later in the week.

Michael

--- In arthurian_comixlist@yahoogroups.com, Jason Tondro <jtondro@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> So I am working on my diss at last and today I got around to reading
> the first volume of Knights of Pendragon. It seems deserving of
> treatment; I have of course read Alan's page for it at Camelot in
> Four Colors. What do you all think of it, and has anyone used it in
> an article or paper?
>
> Cheers
> Jason Tondro
> UC Riverside
>

Michael said,

> I can send more specifics later in the week.

That would be very helpful, thank you! What do you think of the series? Does
your analysis of the series go in a particular direction you feel like sharing?
I'll look up Barbara's book for your comments also.

Jason

So Michael, I (at long last!) read your chapter in Barbara's book on
Arthurian comics and you have corrected my previous assumption on
Claremont's use of Arthur in Excalibur. I always presumed it was just
a marketing ploy, but I think you make a pretty good case --
especially with Claremont's illuminating quote on the topic -- that
there was at least a token effort to capture the spirit of Arthur
there, or the sword, even if later issues of the comic seemed to have
little to do with the myth itself.

I was not sure what I was going to say about Knights of Pendragon
until I read an editor's response in the letter column of, I think,
issue 13. The editor wrote, apparently in complete sincerity, that
what differentiated Arthurian myth from other legendary characters in
Britain's past is that Arthur had no political or geographical
agenda; he was a "global hero" intent on protecting the world at
large, not his country per se.

I think this is going to give me some traction, and I anticipate
talking about Arthur's adoption as a global myth that somehow relates
to all cultures. Naturally, because of my background, I'll mostly be
illustrating this trend through comics.

Jason

The following is solicited for Feb 2008:

LORDS OF AVALON: SWORD OF DARKNESS (2008) #1
  Issue: 1

(Marvel)
LORDS OF AVALON SWORD OF DARKNESS #1 (OF 6)
Written by KINLEY MACGREGOR Adapted by ROBIN GILLESPIE Pencils & Cover
by TOMMY OHTSUKA Variant Cover by TOM GRUMMETT Sketch Variant Cover by
TOM GRUMMETT In a world where Camelot is ruled by Lord Kerrigan, the
peasant Seren has become a pawn between the rulers of light and the
rulers of darkness. But the talented seamstress faces a dilemma after
Lord Kerrigan kidnaps her: Is Kerrigan truly the demon others portray
him to be, or is he her savior in disguise? Jump into this new twist on
Arthurian legend, adapted from best-selling author Kinley MacGregor.
MacGregor, known for her historical romance novels, is the pen-name of
Sherrilyn Kenyon, the best-selling and award-winning American author
known for her supernatural romance and vampire novels.

Dear list members,

Once again our virtual Society has offered a series of sessions at the
Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University.  Our Kalamazoo sessions
are now online.  Times and locations are listed below.  You can view the
complete program and register to attend at <
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/>.

Michael



PCMA Kzoo 2008

Thursday, 8 May
6:00 PM Valley III 303 [across from exhibit halls]

Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Business Meeting


Saturday, 10 May
1:30 PM Session 428, Fetzer 2020

Will the "Reel" Beowulf Please Stand Up? Representations of the Beowulf
Story on Electronic Multimedia
Sponsor: Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Presider: John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State College
Beowulf in Red and Blue: The Bifurcation of the Hero in Film and TV
Mary Bowman, Univ. of Wisconsin�Stevens Point
Monstrous Mothers and Maternal Might in Film Adaptations of Beowulf
David W. Marshall, California State Univ.�San Bernardino
Grendel Goes Hollywood: Depictions of the Monstrous in Beowulf Films
A. Keith Kelly, Kutztown Univ.
Burning for You: Immolation, Beowulf, and Beyond
Carl James Grindley, Hostos Community College, CUNY


3:30 PM Session 492, Schneider 1285 [a room apparently not on the map]

The Comics Get Medieval at Kalamazoo: A Workshop on the Comics Medium in the
Medieval Studies Classroom and Medievalist Research
Sponsor: Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Presider: Dominick Grace, Brecia Univ. College
Comic books, comics strips, graphic novels, and manga with medieval themes
are prevalent in modern popular culture and offer unique approaches to
viewing
aspects of medieval history, literature, mythology, and culture. The purpose
of this workshop is to introduce (or reintroduce) medievalists to the comics
medium and various forms and to illustrate the wealth of material for
incorporation into classroom teaching and research. There will also be some
dicussion
of how to access and catalogue this corpus. Pre-registration is preferred
but not required; please e-mail the Society at
Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@
gmail.com.


Sunday, 11 May
10:30 AM Session 574, Fetzer 1005 [Kirsch Auditorium]

Mass Media Arthuriana: The Matter of Britain in Modern Popular Culture
Sponsor: Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Presider: Carl James Grindley, Hostos Community College, CUNY
"Wake Up, Arthur": King Arthur in English "Folk" Song
Paul Hardwick, Trinity and All Saints, Univ. of Leeds
Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and the Metaphorical Grail
Amy L. Ingram, Northern Illinois Univ.
Arthur and Dilbert
Dominick Grace, Brescia Univ. College
Midsomer Murders and Criminal Minds: Contemporary Violence and the Grail
Legend
Robert J. Blanch, Independent Scholar


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Co-Founder, The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
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List members,

I came across this awhile ago but kept forgetting to post on it.  I
might be an idea to try for a set of panels on medieval/Arthurian
women in popular culture.  More details at
http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon39.html

Michael

=============

  The 39th Annual Mythopoeic Conference
  Mythcon XXXIX


  "The Valkyrie and the Goddess:
The Warrior Woman in Fantasy"

  Central Connecticut State University
  New Britain, Connecticut
  August 15-18, 2008




Mythcon 39 Index


Call for Papers

  Conference Theme: "The Valkyrie and the Goddess: The Warrior Woman in Fantasy"
  Author Guest of Honor: Sharan Newman
  Scholar Guest of Honor: Marjorie Burns

Our theme is the use of female imagery in the traditionally masculine
realm of battle, as expressed in the literature of myth and fantasy.
More broadly, it can include fantasy writers' depictions of women in
heroic roles, women responding actively and positively to situations
of conflict and danger, and the questions of aesthetics and narrative
structure that such issues can raise. Papers dealing with these
conference themes are especially encouraged. We also welcome papers
focusing on the work and interests of the Inklings (especially J.R.R.
Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams), of our Guests of Honor,
and other fantasy authors and themes. Papers from a variety of
critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome.

Each paper will be given a one-hour slot to allow for questions, but
individual papers should be timed for oral presentation in 40 minutes
maximum. Two presenters who wish to give short, related papers may
also share a one-hour slot. Participants are encouraged to submit
papers chosen for presentation at the conference to Mythlore, the
refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society.

All papers should conform to the MLA Style Manual (2nd edition).

Paper abstracts (250 words maximum), along with contact
information,should be sent to the Papers Coordinator at the following
address (e-mail is preferable) by 15 April, 2008. Please include your
AV requests and the projected time needed for your presentation.

Submissions should be sent to:

Alexei Kondratiev
  Mythcon 39 Papers Coordinator
  35-12 161st Street
  Flushing, NY 11358
  alexeik AT aol DOT com


For more information about the Mythopoeic Society please contact:

  Edith Crowe, Corresponding Secretary
  The Mythopoeic Society
  P.O. Box 320486
  San Francisco, CA 94132-0486
  E-mail: edith.crowe@...
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Co-Founder, The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
http://PopularCultureandtheMiddleAges.org

I came acros this notice this afternoon.  The conference seems like they'd
be amiable to medieval-related topics (especially given the guest of honor
Guy Gavriel Kay).
.
  Michael


   Coming Soon:
  The 30th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
   Time and the Fantastic
  March 18-22, 2009
   Guest of Honor: Robert Charles Wilson, Hugo Award-winning author of Axis,
Spin, The Chronoliths, Darwinia, Mysterium, and A Bridge of Years
Guest of Honor: Guy Gavriel Kay, Aurora Award-winning, Caspar Award-winning,
and Mythopoeic Fantasy Award-nominated author of the Fionavar Tapestry (The
Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, The Darkest Road), Tigana, A Song for
Arbonne, and The Last Light of the Sun
  Guest Scholar: Maria Nikolajeva, author of The Aesthetic Approach to
Children's Literature (Scarecrow), The Rhetoric of Children's Literature
(Scarecrow), and From Mythic to Linear: Time in Children's Literature
(Scarecrow)
   Look for Information and Updates at the IAFA website: www.iafa.org
  --
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Co-Founder, The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

http://PopularCultureandtheMiddleAges.org


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Just in case you missed it -- Morgan Le Fay makes a surprise appearance in the
first scene of the latest issue of Marvel's Mighty Avengers (#9).

-- Alan Stewart


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Alan,

Thanks for the heads up.  The list should also find the following of
interest (courtesy of Barbara Tepa Lupack):

from <http://www.hallowquest.org.uk/coming.htm>

John [Matthews] has finished the first draft to produce what will, he hopes,
be a series of Arthurian graphic novels. Provisionally entitled *The
Chronicles of Arthur: The Young King*, these will be illustrated by
well-known graphic artist Mike Collins, who has illustrated Dr Who, Green
Lantern and many others. John and Mike have been talking about this for 10
years, so they are both delighted to be finally getting under way. The first
volume will appear sometime in 2009


Michael


On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Alan Stewart <merrygawain@...>
wrote:

>   Just in case you missed it -- Morgan Le Fay makes a surprise appearance
> in the first scene of the latest issue of Marvel's Mighty Avengers (#9).
>
> -- Alan Stewart
>
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> now.
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List member Dominik Grace has an essay, "The Future King: *Camelot 3000*",
out in the latest issue of *The Journal of Popular Culture *Vol. 41, No. 1,
pp. 21-36.  The essay is a revised version of a paper presented at one of
the early Comics Get Medieval sessions in 2002.

Congratulations, Dom.

Michael

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Co-Founder, The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
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> List member Dominik Grace has an essay, "The Future King: *Camelot 3000*",
> out in the latest issue of *The Journal of Popular Culture *Vol. 41, No. 1,
> pp. 21-36.  The essay is a revised version of a paper presented at one of
> the early Comics Get Medieval sessions in 2002.
>
> Congratulations, Dom.
>
> Michael


Thanks for mentioning it, Michael. I had intended to do so, but it slipped my
mind. Some of you may remember the talk, from the PCA/ACA conference in Toronto
in 2002. (Michael was there, I recall, and Jason Tondro, I think.) This version
is substantially similar, but does go on at greater length about a few things.

Dom



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> List member Dominik Grace has an essay, "The Future King: *Camelot 3000*",
> out in the latest issue of *The Journal of Popular Culture *Vol. 41, No. 1,
> pp. 21-36.  The essay is a revised version of a paper presented at one of
> the early Comics Get Medieval sessions in 2002.
>
> Congratulations, Dom.
>
> Michael


Thanks for mentioning it, Michael. I had intended to do so, but it slipped my
mind. Some of you may remember the talk, from the PCA/ACA conference in Toronto
in 2002. (Michael was there, I recall, and Jason Tondro, I think.) This version
is substantially similar, but does go on at greater length about a few things.

Dom



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The following is a listing of medieval-themed panels at this year's PCA/ACA
conference coming up next month in San Francisco.  Most of the sessions are
run under the Arthurian Legends or Medieval Popular Culture Areas (including
two comics-related sessions organized by the society).  Please support these
presenters if you are in the San Francisco area.

Michael

--
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Co-Founder, The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
http://PopularCultureandtheMiddleAges.org


PCAACA Medieval Themed Panels (complete program at
http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/2008/programschedule.pdf)
2008 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture
Associations
March 19 – 22, 2008
San Francisco Marriott

THURSDAY
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Yerba Buena Salon 15
147 Southern Literature and Culture V: Slaying Time
Chair: Jeffrey P. Cain, Sacred Heart University
Paper 4
"Memory in Walker Percy's Lancelot"
Brianna Spann, University of South Carolina


10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Pacific Suite E
198 Tarot: A Tool for Navigation, Divination, Victimization, and Narration
Chair: Emily Auger, Lakehead University
Paper 5
"The Lord of the Rings: From Tolkien to Tarot"
Emily Auger

Pacific Suite F
199 British Popular Culture I: Tolkien: Fiction and Film
Chair: John Greenfield, McKendree College
"Tolkien, Gandalf, and Merlin Fiction and Film"
Frank Riga, Canisius College
"Tolkien's Powerful Women in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings"
Maureen Thum, University of Michigan-Flint
"Tolkien's Mythic World in The Lord of the Rings: Fiction and Film"
Judith Kollmann, University of Michigan-Flint
"Retrospective: Tolkien and Film"
Janet Croft, University of Oklahoma


12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Pacific Suite E
234 British Popular Culture II: Fin de Siècle Fiction and Film
Chair: John Rogers, Vincennes University
Paper 2
"Black Arrows and White Archers: Adventuring with Stevenson and Doyle"
Winona Howe, La Sierra University

Sierra Suite E
240 Arthurian Legend I: Vocalizing Arthur
Chair: Jane Minogue, California State University, Northridge
"Down the Severn and into Charleston Harbor: Operatic Merlins"
Jerome V. Reel, Clemson University
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive: Bing Crosby's Musical Yankee"
Carl Pyrdum, Yale University
'"Sweet is True Love': Tennyson and Popular Music"
Ann Howey, Brock University


2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Golden Gate Hall Salon A3
258 Science Fiction and Fantasy IV: The Author Is Not Dead: Analyzing the
Choices Writers Make
Chair: Garyn G. Roberts, Northwestern Michigan College
Paper 2
"The Choices of Turin Turambar: J.R.R. Tolkien's Manifested Destiny"
Megan Grove, Sonoma State University

Pacific Suite A
265 Stephen King V: Roland to the Dark Tower Came: King's The Dark Tower
Series
Chair: Patrick McAleer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Paper 2
"Riddles Wrapped in Mystery Inside Enigmas: Anglo-Saxon Literature as the
Key to Unlocking the Ending of King's The Dark Tower Series"
Jennifer Loman, California State University-Chico

Sierra Suite C
275 The Vampire III: Vampire Evolution: Vampire Hunters, Travelers, and
Television (Super) Heroes
Chair: Sarah Pierce, Pacifica Graduate Institute
"Vampires as Travelees and Travelers"
Ana Grinberg-Vandersip, University of California, San Diego
"From Forever Knight to Moonlight: The Moral Vampire on Television"
Melissa Anyiwo, Curry College
"Redeeming the Underworld: The Vampire as Superhero"
Sarah Pierce

Sierra Suite E
276 Arthurian Legend II: Recycling Arthur
Chair: Elizabeth Sklar, Wayne State University
"'The Tale of Balen': Swinburne's Other, Better Arthurian Poem"
Thomas Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois University
"'Favour of Makers': Writing Historical Fiction against the Historians"
Roberta Davidson, Whitman College
"Arthurian Legend as 'Found Myth'"
Peter Goodrich, Northern Michigan University


4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Yerba Buena Salon 1
282 Shakespeare on Film and Television II: "Appropriating" Shakespeare
Chair: Peter Babiak, York University, Canada
Paper 2
"Hamlet and the Business of Being Seen"
John Garrison, University of California Davis
Paper 4
"'Every Inch a King?': Loncraine's Richard III and Branagh's Henry V"
Roberta N. Rude and Susan J. Wolfe, University of South Dakota

Sierra Suite B
310 Arthurian Legend III: Out of Bounds
Chair: Donald L. Hoffman, Northeastern Illinois University
"Shifting Borders: Affective Geography in Arthurian Legend"
Laura Denning, Independent Scholar
"Playing with Gender in Arthur, King of Time and Space"
Christina Francis, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
"The Shrek Trilogy: Queering the Human, the Non-Human, and the Post-Human"
Kathleen Kelly, Northeastern University
"Swamp Chivalry: A Grail Knight for American Teens"
Martin Shichtman, Eastern Michigan University
Laurie Finke, Kenyon College

Sierra Suite F
313 Musical Theater II: The Musical and Literature, The Musical as Healer
Chair: Samuel Goldstein, Daytona Beach College
Paper 2
"Spectacle in King Lear and The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
Brianne Colon, Simon Fraser University

Sierra Suite H
314 Shakespeare, the Elizabethans, & the Early Modern World II: Identity
Chair: Gregory J. Thompson, Rogers State University
Paper 4
"'Off, off, you lendings!' Apparel and Self in King Lear and Hamlet"
Sally Romotsky, California State University, Fullerton




FRIDAY
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Pacific Suite E
411 British Popular Culture III: Mythic, Fantastic, and Uncanny British
Literature
Chair: Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Paper 1
"Tales of Wales: Queen Mabinogi and the Philadelphia Experiment"
Andrew Howe, La Sierra University
Paper 2
The Hunt is On: Re-workings of Welsh Mythology in Susan Cooper's The Dark is
Rising and Diana

Wynne Jones's Dogsbody"
Valerie Solar, University of California, Riverside

Sierra Suite A
417 Medieval Popular Culture I: Hero(ine)s & Battles
Chair: K. A. Laity, College of Saint Rose
"The Hero as Woman: An Analysis of Terry Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax as
the Medieval Heroic Archetype"
Sara-Jane Rice, Widener University
"Lady Death, Lady Pendragon and the Battleaxes: the Peculiar Guidelines for
Medieval Women with Power in Modern Comic Books"
Katherine Allocco, Western Connecticut State University
"Portrait of Addiction"
Linda Crippen, University of Texas, San Antonio
"Reconfiguring Erotic Triangles in Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave"
David M. Faul, Southeastern Louisiana University

Sierra Suite C
419 The Vampire IV: But I Have No Reflection!: Vampiric Identity, Blood and
the Classics
Chair: Michele Braun, Northeastern University
Paper 1
"Angel: The Modern Quixote"
Haley Stokes, University of Utah




10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Yerba Buena Salon 5/Salon 6
429 Visual Culture VI: Visualizations/ Contextualizations: Art and its
Histories
Chair: Royce W. Smith, Wichita State University
Paper 1
"'Half Sick of Shadows': John William Waterhouse, V for Vendetta, and The
Lady of Shalott"
James R. Keller, Eastern Kentucky University

Sierra Suite E
455 Medieval Popular Culture II: Modern Theory in a Medieval Setting
Chair: K. A. Laity, College of Saint Rose
"Maps for an Armchair Traveler: Mappaemundi in the Manuscripts of
Mandeville"
Chet Van Duzer, Independent Scholar
"'Traveling to Mecca to See Mohammed's Sarcophagus Hanging in the Air':
Western Misconceptions of the Islamic Hajj from the Middle Ages Onwards"
Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
"Just a Sword in a Field: Competing Realisms in Luc Besson's The Messenger"
Jen Sopchockchai, Northeastern University



12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Yerba Buena Salon 3
463 Film Adaptation V: All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare and Adaptation
Chair: Lezley Hiebert, Simon Fraser University
Paper 1
"MacBeth and The Godfather: Gender and Family"
Christopher Carchidi, University of Washington

Yerba Buena Salon 4
464 Medieval Popular Culture III: Re-Inventing Heroism
Chair: Constance G.J. Wagner, Saint Peter's College
"'This film also does not involve SPAM': Erik the Viking as a Medievalist
Anti-War Film"
Christine M. Havens, University of Northern Iowa
"Neil Gaiman's Beowulf: The Monsters and the Heroes"
Kristin Noone, University of California, Riverside
"'Hide in a hole if you must': Gnomic lore for the modern age in The 13th
Warrior"
Laurel Lacroix, University of St. Thomas
"Sacramentum Midgard: Frodo as Sacrament to Middle-earth"
Constance G.J. Wagner


4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

Yerba Buena Salon 14
540 Medieval Popular Culture IV: Comics from the Middle Ages to the Modern
Chair: K. A. Laity, College of Saint Rose
"The Cycle of the Life and Passion of Christ in the Bible of Ávila: A
Spanish Medieval Proto-Comic"
Monica A. Walker Vadillo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
"Jean d'Arras' and Couldrette's Mélusine depicted in Mélusine, fée serpente
by Sophie Balland and Didier Quella-Guyot"
Julia A. Nephew, Dominican University
"Four Colored Medievalism: DC Comics' Beowulf, Dragon Slayer"
Peter Lee, California State University, Northridge

Golden Gate Hall Salon B2
547 Comic Art & Comics XIII: Characters and Creators
Chair: Charles Hatfield, CSU Northridge
Paper 2
"Grant Morrison's Arthur: The 7 Invisible JLA Soldiers of Victory"
Jason Tondro, Univeristy of California Riverside


Pacific Suite B
553 Shakespeare on Film and Television IV: Visual and Aural Rhetoric in
Shakespeare Adaptations.
Chair: Karen Schneider, Western Kentucky University
Paper 3
"War and Image: Branagh's and Olivier's Battle of Agincourt"
Robert Deignan, Western Kentucky University
Paper 4
"The Audience's Moral Dilemma in Richard III: Richard as Sympathetic
Character"
Brooke Shafar, Western Kentucky University


6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

Yerba Buena Salon 14
576 Medieval Popular Culture V: Discussion with Comics Creators
Chair: Jason Tondro, University of California Riverside [corrected from
program]
Panel discussion with Christian Beranek, one of the creators of Dracula vs.
King Arthur and Matt Hawkins, creator of Lady Pendragon and others (as
schedules permit).

Pacific Suite B
586 Madness in Literature I
Chair: Branimir Rieger, Lander University
Paper 1
"Same Madness, Different Methods: Crime and Detection in Caleb Carr's The
Alienist and Matthew

Pearl's The Dante Club"
Russ Pottle, St. Joseph Seminary College, Louisiana
Paper 4
"Existential Madness in Walker Percy's Lancelot"
Branimir Rieger




SATURDAY
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Golden Gate Hall Salon A3
632 Science Fiction and Fantasy XII: The "Others": Considerations of Race
and Sexual Orientation
Chair: Carol A. Bernard, Northeast Lakeview College
Paper 4
"From Here to Queer: Idyllic Male Intimacy in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of
the Rings"
Carol A. Bernard


10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Golden Gate Hall Salon A3
663 Science Fiction and Fantasy XIII: A Fickle Love Affair: Perspectives on
Science Fiction and Technology
Chair: Noam Cohen, Stanford University
Paper 3
"The Costs of Invention: The Making of New Technologies in The Dark is
Rising Sequence and in the Chronicles of Narnia"
Keith Dorwick, University of Louisiana, Lafayette


12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Golden Gate Hall Salon A3
697 Science Fiction and Fantasy XIV: Leaving a Mark: Adventures in Genre
Studies
Chair: John Rieder, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Paper 2
"Understanding Fantasy: A Revealing Dig into the Fantastical Worlds in
Books, Movies, and Television"
Rayshell Palmer, Seminole State College


2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Golden Gate Hall Salon B1
731 Film XXIX: 300–Politics, Desire, Technology
Chair: Marilyn R. Stern, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Paper 3
"The Sublimation of Message to Technology in Contemporary Film: An
Examination of Snyder's 300 and Branagh's Henry V"
Marilyn R. Stern, Wentworth Institute of Technology


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Came across this earlier in the week:

The Faculty of English at the University of Oxford is hosting a one-day
conference entitled "Bone Dreams: Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern
Imagination" on 29 April 2008.  Presentations include papers on
*Beowulf*-inspired
films, fiction, and comics.   I append the provisional program below.  Full
details at <http://www.medieval.ox.ac.uk/bonedreams.html>.

Michael


REGISTRATION: 9.30�10.00

SESSION 1: 10.00�11.00
� Introductions
� Chris Jones (St Andrews University)
'From Heorot to Hollywood: *Beowulf* in its Third Millennium'

COFFEE: 11.00�11.15

SESSION 2: 11.15-12.30
� Hannah Crawforth (Princeton University)
''Overlord of the M5': The Superlative Structure of Sovereignty in Geoffrey
Hill's *Mercian Hymns*

� Anne Marie D'Arcy (University of Leicester)
'Taken for Pews with their Tails in their Mouths': Viconian *ricorsi *and
the Tunc Page of the *Book of Kells* (TCD MS 58, fol. 200r) in *Finnegans
Wake*.

� Rebecca Barr (St Peter's College, University of Oxford)
No 'after-speakers': Peter Reading, 'species decline' and Old English poetry

SESSION 3: 12.35-13.25
� Rafal Boryslawski (University of Silesia)
'I offer you things if you will but look�': On the poetic audacity of
riddles, past and present

� Heather O'Donoghue (Linacre College, University of Oxford)
Seamus Heaney's norths

LUNCH: 13.25�14.30

SESSION 4A: 14.30-15.30
� Joshua Davies (King's College London)
'Treasures that crumble at the touch of day': The Absent Anglo-Saxon Past in
*Remains of Elmet*

� Anna Johnson (Brasenose College, University of Oxford)
Suffering men and wounded trees' David Jones, *The Dream of the Rood*, and
Anglo-Saxon literature

SESSION 4B: 14.30�15.30
� K. A. Laity (College of Saint Rose)
'We'll Have to Invent a New Language': Medievalism and Gender Construction
in Moira Buffini's *Silence*

� John Halbrooks (University of South Alabama)
*Beowulf* as 'A Distant Mirror' in P.D. James's *Death in Holy Orders*

TEA: 15.30�15.45

SESSION 5A: 15.45-17.00
� Stuart D. Lee (University of Oxford)
The Early English on Film: Just Mindless Saxon Violence?

� Beth Tovey (Somerville College, University of Oxford)
Beowulf's children: representations of masculinity in science-fiction and
comic book versions of *Beowulf*

� Catherine A. M. Clarke (Swansea University)
Re-placing masculinity: The DC Comics *Beowulf* series and its context,
1975�6

SESSION 5B: 15.30�17.00
� Robyn Elizabeth Bray (University of Glasgow)
John Josias Conybeare and his Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

� Maria Artamonova (Linacre College, University of Oxford)
Writing for an Anglo-Saxon Audience in the Twentieth Century: J.R.R.
Tolkien's Old English Chronicles

� Andy Orchard (University of Toronto)
Verse and Worse: Alistair Campbell's Old English Poetry

BREAK TO COLLECT A DRINK: 17.00�17.15

SESSION 6: 17.15-18.00
Roundtable Discussion, chaired by Bernard O'Donoghue, including Michael
Alexander, Vahni Capildeo and Chris McCully, followed by a reception to
celebrate the publication of Chris McCully's new collection of translations
from Old English, published by Carcanet.


--
Michael A. Torregrossa, M.A.
Co-Founder, The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
http://PopularCultureandtheMiddleAges.org


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Heads Up!  This may be Arthurian!
Saturday night on the SciFi Channel at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.
Rock Monster is a _SCI FI Original_
(http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/SCI_FI_Pictures)   movie. A college kid
pulls a sword from a stone and unleashes
a _monster_ (http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php?title=Monster&action=edit)
.
Tagline: It didn't take a king to pull the sword from the stone, but it  will
take a hero to put it back.
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Rodney,

Thanks for the head's up.

Michael

--- In arthurian_comixlist@yahoogroups.com, RODNEYFFC@... wrote:
>
>
> Heads Up!  This may be Arthurian!
> Saturday night on the SciFi Channel at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.
> Rock Monster is a _SCI FI Original_
> (http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/SCI_FI_Pictures)   movie. A
college kid pulls a sword from a stone and unleashes
> a _monster_
(http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php?title=Monster&action=edit)
> .
> Tagline: It didn't take a king to pull the sword from the stone, but
it  will
> take a hero to put it back.
> Rodney Parrish
>
>
>
> **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money &
> Finance.      (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Check out King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as the mob!

Rodney

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For the collective brain:

Does the Spear of Destiny in the DCU seem to anyone else to be more a
relic of the Crucifixion than a Grail hallow?  I'm not finding any
references to the Grail legend (Dolorous Blow and the Fisher King,
etc.) with relation to DC's use of the Spear except for the fact that
Hitler had both during WWII to repel the US's heroes from entering
Axis territory. In fact, the Spear in Hitler's hands, at least, seems
connected to Nordic myth (perhaps there is a link through Wagner's
Parsifal?), while most recently it was used as a weapon against the
Spectre.  Any thoughts?

Michael

DC has announced a hardcover edition of CAMELOT 3000 (ISBN 140121942X)
due out in November.  You can preorder it at Amazon.com and save over
$10.  No word yet on the extras.

Michael

I've just re-read this arc and the preceding issues for my Kalamazoo
paper on the Grail in the DCU.  There is one page where Metron
specifically equates the Philosopher's Stone as the Grail, while the
JLA is equated with the Knights of the Round Table with their round
table and empty seat at the table (a connection made more explicit in
the letter's page of one issue).  Otherwise, Morrison's evocation of
the Grail quest still alludes me.

FYI: Morrison also says that his SEAGUY series was a Grail quest.

Michael

--- In arthurian_comixlist@yahoogroups.com, Jason Tondro <jvester@...>
wrote:
>
> Everyone,
>
> I recently wrote to Grant Morrison to see if he felt like talking about
> Arthurian elements in the Justice League and his other work. I thought
> some folks might find his response interesting ...
>
>
> "The JLA Round Table was indeed intended to invoke the Arthurian table
> and the 'Rock of Ages' storyline was constructed upon the Grail Quest
> template (the 'worlogog' or Philosopher's Stone is the Grail, the
> Watchtower is Camelot, Dr. Alchemy appears briefly as Klingsor, Kyle
> Rayner retraces Sir Perceval's journey to the Grail Castle, the
> Wasteland appears as Darkseid's conquered, ravaged Earth and so on until
> you grow a third eyebrow just thinking about it)
>
> The final volume of THE INVISIBLES drips equally with Grail imagery and
> overt Arthurian references. It's an aspect of the story that's rarely
> commented on but the book included, among other things, my attempt to
> update and revitalise a number of >cough< 'Archetypal Themes and
> Patterns' from the Grail romances and their weird Celtic precursors."
>
> Morrison is actually pretty accessible for a comic writer. His website
> is at http://www.grant-morrison.com
> Also, the entire "Rock of Ages" story has been collected as a trade,
> which not only makes it accessible to fans but also makes it a potential
> text for classrooms.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason
>

An interview with Sam Sarkar, the creator of the new Radical Comics' series
Caliber has been posted on the Comic Book Resources web site:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16290

"With a drastic setting change -- from Britain in the eleventh century to the
Pacific Northwest in the frontier times -- Sarkar's 'Caliber' is a new kind of
Arthur story. The Knights of the Round Table are gunfighters sworn to protect
the innocent, with (Ex)Caliber itself depicted as a magical six-shooter that
never misses, but only when drawn by a man with justice on his side."

-- Alan


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