Nic Hartmann (University of Iowa)
Comics are an important and often overlooked transmitter of folk culture through documentation of everyday practices and experiences. This presentation shares how my role as a tradition-bearer of a family comic art practice combined with ethnographic field notes in 2020 to create Derecho Days, a series of daily comic panels about life in the wake of the catastrophic Cedar Rapids derecho.
Part of V1-04 Growing in the Gutter: Comics, Culture, and Vernacular Narrative Art, Wednesday, October 11, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm