A call has gone out for paper on the broad subject “The Sequential Art: Comics as a Cultural Nexus“, for a panel at the Fourth Global Forum of Critical Studies, organized by Vienna-based Euroacademia in Lucca, Italy, which will take place… Read More ›
Comics Education News
Teesside University to launch new Comics degree course
Teesside University is to launch a new BA (honours) Degree course in Comics, Graphic Novels and Sequential Art. It’s a unique course, focused solely on comics, and is fully accredited, run through the Art and Design faculty of the University and will… Read More ›
Call For Papers: The International Girls Studies Association Inaugural Conference 2016
The International Girl Studies Association is seeking submissions for their inaugural conference which is being held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich from 7-9 April 2016. The inaugural conference seeks to bring together researchers and students working on girls and… Read More ›
Jazz, Hot Jazz and Comics and a CallFor Papers – It’s an Irresistible Mix!
If you’re the find of comics person that’s backed Hunt Emerson‘s Kickstarter to publish a deluxe edition of his Hot Jazz comic strips (in the vein of his marvellous Calculus Cat collection last year, now on sale), then this new… Read More ›
Global Manga: “Japanese” Comics without Japan?
Ashgate have just published Global Manga: “Japanese” Comics without Japan?, edited by Casey Brienza, a new look at the global production of manga-inspired work. Outside Japan, the term ‘manga’ usually refers to comics originally published in Japan. Yet nowadays many publications… Read More ›
New International Journal of Comic Art out now
The latest edition of the International Journal of Comic Art is out now, the premier academic journal devoted to all aspects of cartooning and comics. Edited by John Lent, the whopping 675 page tome features Visual Language: Neil Cohn… Read More ›
Hiroshima anniversary prompts new comic study, London art exhibition “Paintings from Hiroshima”
Next month sees the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one of the final, horrific closing acts of World War Two that has, of course, proven a rich vein of story inspiration for comic creators down the… Read More ›
New Digital Comics study Journal released
Co-edited by Daniel Merlin Godbrey, a leading light in the field of digital comics, the Digital Comics edition of the MeCCsa Networking Knowledge Journal is now online. The Journal is hopefully of use for anyone studying the area of digital comics… Read More ›
Call For Papers: Transtions 6
The TRANSITIONS 6 – New Directions in Comics Studies 2015 Symposium will take place on 31st October 2015 at Birkbeck, University of London and a Call For Papers has just gone out. The Respondent will be Professor Roger Sabin (of Central… Read More ›
The Comic Electric: A Digital Comics Symposium – Call For Participation
Led by renowned comic writers Leah and Alan Moore, The Electricomics project launched in May 2014 with funding from The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. Now, as the project nears the conclusion of its initial research and development… Read More ›