California State University Northridge professor and comics scholar Charles Hatfield is one of the leading experts on comics history, theory, and critique.

Cal State Northridge professor and comics scholar Charles Hatfield is one of the leading experts on comics history, theory, and critique. He’s widely honored for promoting the growth and development of the field of comics studies. His books include Alternative Comics, which focuses on artists like Art Spiegelman and the Hernandez Brothers, and Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby. Additionally, he recently curated the highly acclaimed CSUN gallery exhibition Comic Book Apocalypse: The Graphic World of Jack Kirby, which displayed more than a hundred original art boards by DC's and Marvel's “King” of comics. Come join Charles as he explores the experimental use of collage by a diversity of creative comics talents, including Kirby, Julie Doucet, Alberto Breccia, and Bill Sienkiewicz.

This lecture is offered in conjunction with Michael Dooley's Humanities and Sciences course, "Design History of Comics and Animation," and is free and open to the public.