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Interview With Megan Andress



Intro questions: 

  1. Who are you (name, year, major) and what is your academic background (preferred topics)? 

  1. What is your experience with comics, graphic novels, cartoons, and/or anime? What are some of your favorites?  

  1. Have you engaged with subcultures either in media or in person? If so, and if you would like to share, what subcultures and what has the experience told you about identity? 

-Preface- 

Focusing on black representation in comics, graphic novels, cartoons, and anime of the past and present, answer the following questions. 

Content Questions: 

  1. What would you identify as the important differences between pop culture and subculture, and what each can do for representation? 

  1. Going off of that, can you speak towards the importance of each type, particularly subculture, in self-identity and/or collective identity? This can be about both media representations and engagement with community in real life. 

  1. From what you have seen, have you noticed a growth in varied, authentic representation as opposed to homogenous, if not stereotypical, representation? In other words, representation that presents black people as their character traits rather than “The Black Character." 

  1. Following this idea, do you think there are certain ways that black characters aren’t allowed to be represented, in line with the theory of the Model Minority? How does this interplay with various intersections of identity—whether it be something inherent like gender, sexuality, or religion, or something personal like interests and behavior? 

  1. Focusing on the sequential arts, how do you think mediums and producers (such as corporations or indie) affect representation in media? How would you describe the tradeoff between freedom of content vs increased reach of the publication?  


 

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