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Learn how the LGBTQ community has been portrayed in this popular medium and explore its evolution throughout history.
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For decades comics drew upon, circulated and preserved the stories of LGBTQ people in a form that was often overlooked as childish or silly. Today comic books make up an archive of queer history. From the early underground “comix” to the popular superheroes Batwoman, Iceman, Jon Kent and America, this lecture considers the history of queer comics and characters.
Valentino Zullo is Assistant Professor of English, co-director of the Rust Belt Humanities Lab, and the Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in English and Public Humanities at Ursuline College. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, on the board of the Siegel & Shuster Society, and currently co-leads the Get Graphic program at Cleveland Public Library where he was the Ohio Center for the Book Scholar-in-Residence.
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Located across from University Hospitals Parma Medical Center and adjacent to city hall, the Parma-Powers Branch offers a full service drive-up window, community meeting spaces and an interactive children’s area featuring artwork by beloved writer/illustrator Rosemary Wells.
This branch is a Student Success Center and a Greater Cleveland Food Bank Kids Café location.