Specials
Near the Arthouse Movie, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Dada House), we invite you to join us for panel discussions, thematic discussions, a lecture and an exhibition.…
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Comics and film have a lot in common. Not only is a storyboard a kind of script in form of images, but many comics have also inspired film realisations and can be understood as a format closely related to film media. Now what do comics and homosexuality have in common?
Markus Pfalzgraf presents the history of gay and lesbian comics, whilst Ariel Schrag began to document her daily life at school (and her coming out) in images and texts already at the early age of 15. Erwin In Het Panhuis in turn analysed the first 500 episodes of the “Simpsons” in respect to their attitude to homopolitical issues – and discovered an atypically open-minded picture of gays and lesbians.
Markus Pfalzgraf presents the history of gay and lesbian comics, whilst Ariel Schrag began to document her daily life at school (and her coming out) in images and texts already at the early age of 15. Erwin In Het Panhuis in turn analysed the first 500 episodes of the “Simpsons” in respect to their attitude to homopolitical issues – and discovered an atypically open-minded picture of gays and lesbians.
Events in the context of this special:
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Lecture
A journey in pictures through the queer comics landscape.From the very first homoerotic drawings to pornographic comics, from political underground to literary mainstream – gay comics have come a long way.
Markus Pfalzgraf, a journalist and author of the book “Stripped – A Story of Gay Comics”, looks back at the different variations of gay comics. It is the first overview of this kind in a book. There are opulent pictures: excerpts from comics, and even some complete stories, some of which are published for the first time in book form.
In his richly illustrated lecture Markus Pfalzgraf draws a big arc over the history of homosexuality in comics, and we also learn which gay and lesbian heroes have made it onto a film screen.
This lecture is held in German only.
LECTURE
Markus Pfalzgraf (Stuttgart) works as a journalist for radio and TV and is the author of book “Stripped – A Story of Gay Comics” (Bruno-Gmünder-Verlag 2012).
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