{"id":123,"date":"2026-10-19T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/?p=123"},"modified":"2026-10-19T09:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:33:55","slug":"the-making-of-1177-bc-a-graphic-history-of-the-year-civilization-collapsed-glynnis-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/2026\/10\/19\/the-making-of-1177-bc-a-graphic-history-of-the-year-civilization-collapsed-glynnis-fawkes\/","title":{"rendered":"AIA Lecture 11\/5\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Making of 1177 BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynnisfawkes.com\/\">Glynnis Fawkes<\/a>)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">November 5@ 6:30 PM, PAB 320<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"851\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/files\/2026\/10\/Fawkes_Poster_Image-1024x851.jpg\" alt=\"Two people walk on a beach, walking to the right while one looks back towards the sea. In the background, three ships filled with armed soldiers approach the shore while a crowd gathers on the beach. In the far background, a city burns.\" class=\"wp-image-124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/files\/2026\/10\/Fawkes_Poster_Image-1024x851.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/files\/2026\/10\/Fawkes_Poster_Image-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/files\/2026\/10\/Fawkes_Poster_Image-768x639.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/files\/2026\/10\/Fawkes_Poster_Image-1536x1277.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/files\/2026\/10\/Fawkes_Poster_Image-2048x1703.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pel and Sesha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How does a cartoonist go about adapting a work of history, specifically Eric H. Cline\u2019s 1177 BC The Year Civilization Collapsed? In this talk I will describe the process of interpreting Eric\u2019s text in comics, an exercise where I repeatedly asked myself: how might I tell this story visually? Through page compositions and dramatizations where historical figures (such as Ramses III) speak, I imagined characters for whom we have no record offering commentary and opinions. To guide the narrative, I introduced two new young characters, Pel (of the Sea Peoples) and Shesha, (an Egyptian scribe) who ask the central question of the book: Why after three prosperous centuries did the civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age suddenly come to an end?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Glynnis Fawkes<\/strong> is the co-author with Eric H Cline and illustrator of 1177 BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press). She is also the author-illustrator of Charlotte Bront\u00eb before Jane Eyre (Little, Brown) and Persephone\u2019s Garden (Secret Acres), among other books, and her comics have appeared on the website of The New Yorker. She has worked as an archaeological illustrator around the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, and teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Making of 1177 BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (Glynnis Fawkes) November 5@ 6:30 PM, PAB 320 How does a cartoonist go about adapting a work of history, specifically Eric H. Cline\u2019s 1177 BC The Year&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/2026\/10\/19\/the-making-of-1177-bc-a-graphic-history-of-the-year-civilization-collapsed-glynnis-fawkes\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;AIA Lecture 11\/5\/26<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/archaeological-institute-of-america-portland-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}