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Why Aren’t Comics Funny Anymore?

Charles Brownstein, Executive Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, moderates an all-star panel of experts to discuss the question of humor in comics from a variety of professional perspectives, 2/9/17. Panelists include MK Reed (The Castoffs, Americus), Mark Russell (God is Disappointed in You, Apocrypha Now, Prez), Diana Schutz (editor of Sin City, Grendel, and Usagi Yojimbo), and Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man, God is Disappointed in You, Apocrypha Now).

Click here for a transcript of the lecture.

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John and Patricia Beckman had an audacious idea: harness the power of humor to transform the world! And let’s tap into the capacious imaginations and talents of the University of Portland to treat humor as “a communal energy, a creative way to puncture arrogance and outwit violence.”

And so the Beckman Humor Project was born, a living force. What can it offer our bruised, blessed world?

Speakers, concerts, exhibitions, performances, graphic novels, stand-up, research… if it can be imagined, if it can scrape a bit of crud off the world by making someone laugh, it can find a home in the Beckman Humor Project.

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Rev. Charles Gordon, C.S.C., Ph.D. (Cantab)
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gordon@up.edu
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