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SUMMARY:Studies in Comics: General Call for Papers information
DESCRIPTION:Papers are welcomed for Studies in Comics\, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal that aims to describe the nature of comics\, to identify the medium as a distinct art form and to address its formal properties. We invite submissions exploring the formal properties of comics\, advancing their own theory of comics or responding to an established theoretical model. We also welcome reviews of new comics\, scholarship and criticism\, conferences and exhibitions\, as well as unpublished creative work. \nWe invite submissions of articles of 4000–8000 words from any discipline. These should have a strong critical focus and seek to apply hitherto unexplored theoretical approaches to the medium of comics or respond to published theories about the medium’s formal properties. Possible areas include: \n\ncomics and visual language in the context of communications theory;\nthe grammar of comics;\nnarrative structure;\nthe relationship between panel\, page and the multiframe;\ncomposition and panel transitions;\nthe treatment of time and space;\nresponses to published theorists such as Scott McCloud\, Will Eisner\, Thierry Groensteen\, etc.\n\nWe also welcome reviews of new publications and exhibits and short creative pieces of 1-8 pages in length. Creative work should be relevant to some aspect of comics\, although there are no other thematic or stylistic restrictions. Metafictional submissions that deal with the processes and theories of comics creation are encouraged. \nArticle submissions \nPlease send your completed article and a metadata document (see ‘Notes for Contributors’\, available for download below) by email. Please include the word ARTICLE in the email subject heading and indicate the word count of the article in your covering email. Papers must be submitted in English. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. \nReviews of publications and conferences and exhibitions \nPlease send expressions of interest by email include the words REVIEW PUBLICATION or REVIEW CONFERENCE or REVIEW EXHIBITION in the subject heading. There is no set length for reviews\, however we would expect them to be around 1\,000-3\,000 words. \nCreative submissions \nPlease include the word CREATIVE in the subject heading. All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications. Studies in Comics is published twice yearly\, however some issues may be guest-edited or themed – where applicable\, submissions will be carried over for the next issue. \nSubmissions are welcomed from both scholars and enthusiasts. Contributors are encouraged to approach comics from any discipline and to turn their attention to comics from all countries and in all languages. So\, whether you’re a semiotician\, philosopher\, scientist\, historian\, enthusiast or cultural\, literary or film critic\, Studies in Comics welcomes you! \nSubmissions should be sent to studiesincomics@gmail.com by either 1 June or 1 December for consideration for the next issue.
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CATEGORIES:Call for Papers
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SUMMARY:Comics Forum: Bodies & Embodiement - Call for Papers
DESCRIPTION:The thirteenth Comics Forum will focus on themes of embodiment within comics and Comics Studies across cultures\, disciplines\, and forms. \nEmbodiment is the process through which both individual and cultural ideas and beliefs become material. Embodiment generates an emerging challenge to and within Comics Studies that scholars such as Eszter Szép and Scott Jeffery have begun to explore within the field. Through themes of embodiment\, we hope to call attention to how comics are a deeply embodied medium. Comics become embodied when they are made\, through the movement of the body to draw\, write\, and make comics; when they are read through the readers’ bodily responses; when they become bodies of work or story. Comics themselves embody ideas and narratives through their lines\, colours\, layouts\, speech balloons\, visual and narrative styles\, publishing formats\, and sizes. \nAs an embodied medium\, comics can re-affirm or unsettle the boundaries of dichotomies\, such as the embodied Self/Other; the individual/collective; the objective/subjective; the fictional/real; the powerful/powerless. We are particularly interested in work that moves away from or challenges Western hegemonic forms and practices of embodiment in comics and graphic narratives. \nComics Studies attempts to situate itself between these cultures\, bodies of work\, creators\, and readers. We are therefore also interested in how Comics Studies is embodied in the academy. What might Comics Studies\, as an embodied methodology\, bring to other disciplines or fields? Comics Forum 2024 therefore invites participants to consider embodiment through or within any new\, developing\, or previous work in the field. Subjects for discussion may include\, but are not limited to: \n\nComics as archival bodies\n\n\nEmbodiment in comics industries\n\n\nEmbodiment of Comics Studies in the academy\n\n\nEmbodiment in Comics Studies’ research methodologies\n\n\nPossibilities of disembodiment in comics\n\n\nEmbodiment in/of/through comics forms\n\n\nEmbodiment and biopolitics in comics\n\n\nEmbodied identities and positions in comics\n\n\nNegotiations of embodied boundaries in comics\n\n\nInteraction between comics and bodies of comics creators/readers/scholars\n\nComics Forum welcomes speakers from a diverse range of backgrounds\, ranging from students to senior academics\, practitioners and beyond. No particular academic disciplines are preferred\, and we are open to proposals on comics and related forms from any part of the world. Proposals of up to 250 words for papers of 20 minutes in length are now being accepted at: comicsforum@hotmail.co.uk. Alternative formats of presentation\, such as workshops or roundtable discussions\, are welcome but must fit within the same 20-minute time limit. If you are proposing an alternative format\, please indicate this in your proposal. \nThe deadline for submissions is the 31st of August\, and you will be notified of acceptance by or before the 13th of September 2024. Please include a short (100 word) biography with your proposal. We look forward to seeing you in Leeds!
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SUMMARY:SUBVERSIVE COMICS
DESCRIPTION:This RHR issue will explore the recent history of comics—defined broadly as works that combine sequences of visual images\, frequently with text\, to convey narratives. Comics in this sense have existed in the U.S. and elsewhere for well over a century as independent publications as well as appearing in circulars\, newspapers\, magazines\, pamphlets and other print (and more recently digital) media. During the 1930s\, popular audiences for comics grew rapidly\, especially among youth\, and then grew explosively during the 1940s into the 1950s. The range of subject matter for comics expanded from cartoon characters (often anthropomorphic animals) to human caricatures (sometimes humorous)\, to “realistic” genres like romance and crime\, as well as historically-based situations\, and—especially with WWII and is aftermath—war. \nHaving seemingly secured a firm place in popular culture\, something of a shift occurred in comics in the late 1950s\, when they came under attack in a number of countries by guardians of morality as a result of the Red Scare of the period and of hysteria over juvenile delinquency. But by the 1960s\, shaped by rising social struggle (especially the peace and anti-colonial movements\, and in North America\, the Black freedom movement)— along with proliferating cultural insurgencies (jazz\, rock and roll\, the Beats\, youth culture\, etc.)—a subversive wing of the comics movement emerged that became known as underground or radical comics\, and\, more recently\, alt comics. \nThis oppositional wing of the comics movement continues to develop to this day in many modalities and forms\, expressed in comics that are vehicles for social criticism and graphic journalism; that subvert hegemonic cultural and political norms; that ridicule established hierarchy and power; that pay increasing attention to historical subjects\, themes\, biographies\, and memoirs; that sometimes protest but more often satirize. Simultaneously a new kind of comics—graphic novels and books—rapidly expanded its presence and popularity. This new wing which draws on the political and cultural movements of the recent period in complicated ways\, and in turn contributes to them (feminism is a key example)\, will be the subject of this issue of Radical History Review. \nThis RHR issue will offer critical perspectives on the field of subversive comics—on its strengths as well as its weaknesses. It will aim to appreciate\, understand\, but not romanticize.  We should add that over the years comics have been features of RHR\, and we see this issue in that tradition as further advancing the study of this important aspect of cultural history. This RHR issue will focus on comics in North America\, and will encourage contributions on and about comics abroad.  And we will encourage contributions from historians and other commentators and from comic artists— both written and drawn\, as well as “hybrids” that merge prose and images. \nTopics of submissions may involve but are not limited to: \n\nThe relationship of comics and comic artists to important democratic social movements: Black\, Latinx\, and Asian American liberation; feminism\, and LGBTQ rights.\nThe involvement of comics as aspects of various countercultures.\nComics by artists of color\, and about communities of color.\nComics by artists in countries outside the United States about Africa. Asia\, Europe\, or the Americas.\nThe aesthetics of various types of comics.\nComic art in relationship to other artistic and cultural practices.\n\nRadical History Review publishes material in a wide variety of forms. The editors will consider research articles and extended essays; interviews with comic artists or others in the comics field; “conversations” between scholars and/or activists; brief interventions and commentaries; essays on museum and other public forums; film and book review essays”; annotated course syllabi; and\, of course\, comics\, either as short strips or substantial pieces. Preliminary inquiries may be sent to issue editors: Andor Skotnes (skotna@sage.edu) and Paul Buhle (PaulBuhle@brown.edu). \nProcedure for submission of articles: \nBy July 15\, 2024\, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article you wish to submit to our online journal management system\, ScholarOne. To begin with ScholarOne\, sign in or create an account at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-rhr. After signing in\, select “Author” from the menu up top\, and click “Begin Submission” or “Start New Submission.” Upload a Word or PDF document\, including any images within the document. After uploading your file\, select “Proposal” as the submission type and follow the on-screen instructions. Please write to contactrhr@gmail.com if you encounter any technical difficulties or have any other questions about the process. \nBy August 15\, 2024\, authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed articles is expected to be in November 2024. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 155 of the Radical History Review\, scheduled to appear in May 2026. \nAbstract Deadline: July 15\, 2024
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