The Graphic Novels SIG is happy to announce that we will be hosting guest speaker T Edward Bak at our annual meeting. All conference attendees are welcome to attend.
T Edward Bak is the cartoonist of the semi-autobiographical comic strip
Service Industry, which originally appeared in
Flagpole Magazine. Critical praise for the Service Industry collection coincided with a Fellowship at the Center for Cartoon Studies. After his stories appeared in the anthologies
Orchid,
Drawn & Quarterly Showcase,
The Best American Comics, and
MOME, Floating World Comics began serializing his graphic novel,
WILD MAN. Most recently, his illustrated essays were featured in print and online at
High Country News,
Popula, and
The Nib. Mr. Bak currently lives in Oregon and resumes work on
WILD MAN. For more information, check out his
Instagram and his
Patreon.
Bak has spent the past nine years researching, writing, and illustrating a graphic novel about the geographical crossroads and temporal continuum of nature and culture. He is committed to the further development of the work, seeking to balance indigenous perspective with the emergence of imperial and scientific history. Accompanied by a series of projected drawings from the book, he will share the experience of his creative process to describe how
WILD MAN and he have evolved together.
We acknowledge
Tara S. Spies Smith for her help in organizing this event.
