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 […]
SUBVERSIVE COMICS
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 […]
Comics Forum: Bodies & Embodiement – Call for Papers
The 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 […]
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 […]
THE LAKES INTERNATIONAL COMIC ART FESTIVAL
Bowness-on-Windermere , United KingdomA comic art spectacular is coming to the Lake District from 27 - 29 September 2024! This year's festival promises to be better than ever, with the best comic artists, writers and creators heading to the Lake District for a packed comic art weekend spectacular. A WORLD OF COMIC ART WILL RETURN TO THE […]
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), […]
Thought Bubble
Thought Bubble is the Yorkshire Comic Art Festival! A week long celebration of comics, illustration and more spread across the whole of Yorkshire, finishing in a huge two day comic convention in Harrogate. We use our festival week to promote the power of comics! We believe they can inspire, educate and bring people together like […]
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 […]
Studies in Comics: General Call for Papers information
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 […]