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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The First Annual Atlanta Comics Symposium
The Writing and Communication program, The University of Florida English Department, and ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies invite you to a symposium celebrating comics scholars, students, and artists.
Highlights include:
• Keynote speech from Tony Harris, artist on Starman, Ex Machina, War Heroes, and
Spiderman: With Great Power
• Panel on Atlanta Comic artists featuring Van Jensen, author of Pinocchio The
Vampire Slayer, and Andy Runton, author of Owly
• Presentations by Georgia Tech students about creating comic books in their English
1102 class.
• Panels on comics and other media, comics and war, and a roundtable discussing the
comic book and television phenomenon The Walking Dead
