This lecture series is FREE and open to everybody! Please register in advance on Eventbrite. Refreshments will be served. *Authors will not be present at the lectures in this series*

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 at 6:30pm

Naoki Urasawa
Manga, the umbrella term for Japanese comics, is both uniquely Japanese and throughout Global Pop Culture. This talk will look at the first volume of Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto, a series based on the classic Astro Boy, as a way of returning to the history of Manga and realizing its complex relationship with world literature.

Presented by William Kuskin, Professor of English