Comics and Social Conflict
b'Comics have emerged as a key means of interpreting and disseminating controversial and contested histories: Chester Brown\\u2019s Louis Riel, Keiji Nakazawa\\u2019s Barefoot Gen, Joe Sacco\\u2019s Palestine, and Marjane Satrapi\\u2019s Persepolis are just some of the works that take definitive social and political conflict as their topic. Why has historical material become so important for comics art? What unique opportunities does comics allow for critiquing and revising dominant historical narratives? These are the questions our speakers discussed, in relation to their own work and to the comics world in general.\\n\\nDiana Tamblyn is writing a biography of Canadian arms trader and weapons engineer Gerald Bull; Ho Che Anderson authored King, a 3-volume biography of MLK; and Jeet Heer is a historian and a leading comics scholar.'