Join us for a worldwide conversation on artist Melinda Gebbie’s sumptuous retrospective art book, Melinda Gebbie’s Greatest Fits, with the artist herself and the author of the introduction, Dr. Melanie West! We’ll talk about Gebbie’s decades-long career in fine art and comix, feminism, and creative cultures, with special guest Dr. Yamuna Sangarasivam.

This event will be hybrid: in person at HMNSS 1500 and online.

RSVP to attend via Zoom: https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw

Melinda Gebbie is a cartoonist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, underground comix innovator and author of banned books. She is best known for contributing to Wimmen’s Comix and co-creating Lost Girls with Alan Moore.

Melanie West, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary artist-academic and Black comix artist from Rochester, New York. She teaches at Cal State Los Angeles.

Yamuna Sangarasivam, Ph.D., is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women and Gender Studies at Nazareth University in New York. She is the author of Nationalism, Terrorism, Patriotism: A Speculative Ethnography of War.

andré carrington, Ph.D., is associate professor of English and Director of Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside. He is the author of Audiofuturism and co-founder, with Jennifer Camper, of the Queers & Comics conference.