The US-based academic collaboration In Media Res is putting Digital Comics in the spotlight this week with a contribution from highly-acclaimed comic creator Mark Waid, who is launching his own web comics this summer. The series of presentations are sure… Read More ›
Comics Studies
Items on comic studies from around the world – course information and more
Call for Papers for third ‘Transitions’ comic conference in November
Transitions is a one-day symposium promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics, comix, manga, bande dessinée and other forms of sequential art, now in its third year, with the next event taking place as part of Comica 2012… Read More ›
Call for Papers: From Akira to Žižek: Comics and Contemporary Cultural Theory
Papers are now being invited for the academic comics tome Studies in Comics (volume 3.2). Guest editor Tony Venezia tell us this special issue – sub-titled From Akira to Žižek: Comics and Contemporary Cultural Theory – seeks to provide a forum for new articulations between… Read More ›
Scottish MP savages Dundee University’s new comics degree
(Last Updated 9/6/11, added comments from Stewart Hosie MP) Scottish Labour MP Tom Harris has condemned news of Dundee University‘s new ‘Comics Studies Degree‘ announced earlier this week – despite the city’s long history as a comics publisher. Dundee University… Read More ›
The Aesthetics of Trash?
A major academic conference on comics and animation is to take place in Manchester in August, and a call has gone out for papers. Taking place from 28th – 29th August 2007 the event, titled The Aesthetics of Trash?: Reassessing… Read More ›