Madeline Gangnes is an American student (originally from Hawaii but also from the Seattle area and Chicago) on Dundee University's Comics Studies MLitt course who studies the critical analysis of comics rather than comics creation.
Madeline will be giving a talk titled "Active and Audible: Translating and Adapting Visual Techniques from Manga to Anime in Katsuhiro Ōtomo’s AKIRA", where she'll be discussing the visual techniques Ōtomo uses to convey motion, action, and sound in the manga version of AKIRA and how those aspects of the piece are treated in the anime adaptation.
Sounds pretty awesome!
