Peter Coogan, director of the Institute for Comics Studies and co-founder and co-chair of the Comic Arts Conference, discusses the essence of the superhero and clears up the critical haze in his talk "Heroes Ain't Superheroes: An Examination of the Essence of the Superhero Genre."
Douglas Wolk, critic and author of "Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean," explains the peculiar Venn diagram of superhero cartooning, cartooning and visual art in his talk "Super-Aesthetics."
