Research backs comics as a gateway to wider reading
Comics Studies
Items on comic studies from around the world – course information and more
Gareth Brookes to spotlight the challenges AI presents to comic creators at special seminar
A free academic event probing AI’s possible impact on comic creation
Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics by Eike Exner announced for 2025
Coming in August from an award-winning author
New book, “Comics | Histories – Texts, Methods, Resources” includes a potted history of Marvel Comics
The world’s leading “academic expert” on Doctor Doom brings us a fascinating potted history of Marvel
Alan Grant Memorial Scholarship Announced
A fantastic tribute to a much-missed comics writer
New crowdfunding campaign launched for comics museum in Sicily
A dedicated group of comic fans in Sicily hope to open a new Comics Museum
Academics Assemble! The Superhero Project returns to Eastbourne
Superheroes and Technology are at the heart of this year’s academic event in September
British Newspaper Strips – A Contextual History offers informative insights into an often overlooked comic form
A welcome study of the newspaper strip form
Call for Papers: Comics Forum 2024
Details about this Thought Bubble tie-in conference
In Memoriam: Cartoonist and Comic Archivist John Adcock
A cartoonist, illustrator, storyteller and archivist has passed
Dundee University scraps Comics Masters design course, claiming numbers had dwindled
Dundee University has closed its Comics Masters Design course
Who Cares for Comics? Online event with Kay Sohini and Jared Gardner will discuss “Graphic Medicine and Comic Art”
The comics form and practice will be discussed in relation to graphic medicine in a special online event
Comics: The Answer to The UK’s Literacy Crisis?
Jaw-dropping data about the power of comics on improving literacy
The Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship seeks reviewers
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section
Dave Gibbons teases future “Martha Washington” project at Comics Up Close: Origin Stories
Sim Leech and Chris Wright report on the recent Comics Up Close event at Sheffield Hallam University
Major academic book, “The Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodicals”, coming soon
A major academic work about children’s periodicals on the way
Comics Up Close returns next month, at Sheffield Hallam University
Details of an academic comics event next month Sheffield Hallam University
WebFind: Children in Comics – An Intercultural History, aka COMICS project
A pan European comics research project that’s caught our eye
Third edition of “The Power of Comics” available now
A substantially updated version of this popular guide was recently published by Bloomsbury Academic
Sequential art in the spotlight in new online event series from Lakes International Comic Art Festival and Oxford Comics Network
Explore some mysteries of sequential art through four free online events with top international academics