Conference
Comics Studies Society Annual Conference: Glitching Comics
OnlineIn her 2020 publication Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, Legacy Russell explores the notion of “glitch-as-error with its genesis in the realm of the machinic and the digital.” With this framing, she argues that glitches might “inform the way we see the AFK world, shaping how we might participate in it toward greater agency for and by ourselves” […]
The Fifteenth Annual International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference Comics and Technologies University of East Anglia, Norwich
University of East Anglia Research Park, Norwich, United KingdomNew technologies have affected the creation, production, distribution, forms, themes, ethics, and cultures of comics. Collaboration and creativity have been enabled by digital communication and creative tools. Comics have adapted to emerging technologies that inspire new formats, such as photomechanical reproduction, the four-colour process, photocopying, free computer software such as Canva, MediBang Paint, or the […]
Small Press Expo 2024
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center 5701 Marinelli Road, Rockville, MD, United StatesThe Small Press Expo (SPX) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit created in 1994 to promote artists and publishers who produce independent comics. SPX hosts an annual festival that provides a forum for artists, writers and publishers of comic art in its various forms to present to the public comic art not accessible through normal commercial […]
19TH ANNUAL COMFOR CONFERENCE 2024 IN GRONINGEN: “GRAPHIC MEDICINE”
University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands9th annual ComFor conference 2024: “Graphic Medicine: Communicating Illness and Health Through Comics” 23-25 October 2024 at the University of Groningen,the Netherlands Organizers: Janina Wildfeuer and Barbara Postema (University of Groningen) We are very pleased to announce that the keynote speakers for the conference will be: Irmela Krüger-Fürhoff (Freie Universität Berlin), Lisa El Refaie (Cardiff University), […]
Comics Forum 2024: Between Bodies: Embodiment and Comics
Leeds Central Library Calverley Street, Leeds, United KingdomThe thirteenth Comics Forum will focus on themes of embodiment within comics and Comics Studies across cultures, disciplines, and forms. Embodiment 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 […]