Items on comic studies from around the world – course information and more
Mel Gibson reports on another aspect of this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival – its academic workshop, an aspect set to expand next year… The Lakes International Comic Art Festival‘s approach to developing links with the academy is distinctive. Their… Read More ›
“You must draw David Bowie. Find David Bowie, or I’ll send you David Bowie. Because if it isn’t David Bowie, you’re going to have to re-do it until it is David Bowie.” – Kelley Jones, quoting Neil Gaiman, Hanging Out… Read More ›
Article first published 15th March 2016 By Laurence Grove, University of Glasgow Here’s a good pub quiz question: what was the world’s first comic? If you’ve no idea, don’t feel too foolish. It wasn’t even recognised by experts until a… Read More ›
The California College of the Arts will launched a free online course next month offering the opportunity for anyone, anywhere to learn how to make their own comics from one of very few schools in the United States to offer… Read More ›
We’ve just got word that comic creators Eric Shanower and Mike Carey will be contributing to Nottingham University’s conference, Sacrificing Iphigenia through the Ages, next Friday-Saturday (29th-30th January). The interdisciplinary conference is on representations of the myth of Iphigenia in… Read More ›
Graphic Justice is a stream that’s part of a larger academic conference, the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2016 taking place at Lancaster University from Tuesday 5th – Thursday 7th April 2016. Convened by Thomas Giddens, from St Mary’s Univeristy… Read More ›
(Updated 23/1/2016 with amended job description): A research assistant is needed to conduct a data analysis project studying page layout and lexis in the comic book Misty at Bournemouth University. The post is part-time at 8 hours a week. The… Read More ›
Lancaster University has appointed renowned French graphic novelist and critic Benoit Peeters as its Visiting Professor in Graphic Fiction and Comic Art, the first ever such appointment in the UK. The news was announced by Professor Simon Guy, Dean of the University’s Faculty of… Read More ›
As part of the UK Being Human festival of the humanities, Liverpool John Moores University Library Services are hosting a fun event in Liverpool Central Library from 11.00am to 3.00pm on Saturday 21st November. LJMU students are running a number… Read More ›
The organisers of Graphic Gothic, an event to be held at Manchester Metropolitan University in July 2016, have put out a Call For Papers. The event is being organised in association with Studies in Comics (Intellect Books), the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics… Read More ›
The ninth annual Cine Excess international Festival turns its focus on the world of graphic novels for the first time this year, with a special panel discussion on violence in comics featuring Professor Martin Barker, comic book writer and editor Pat… Read More ›
If you’re a comics fan and in the vicinity of Dundee from 21st October until 25th October 2015, then an attempt needs to be made to attend the Dundee Literary Festival. Most of the events are aimed at the bibliophiles… Read More ›
One of my hobby horses has always been that comics have rarely been treated as a serious medium by main stream culture when it has produced such works as Maus, The Tale of One Bad Rat and V for Vendetta…. Read More ›
Dundee Literary Festival, which takes place at the University of Dundee from 21 to 25 October, has announced its 2015 line-up of authors and events with talks by comics creators including Mike Collins, Karrie Fransman, Dave Gibbons, and Will Morris. The annual event… Read More ›
The Comics Forum is seeking to appoint three or more individuals to the roles of Articles Editors, News Editors, and Reviews Editors on the Comics Forum website. Comics Forum was established in 2009 as part of Leeds’ annual sequential art festival Thought Bubble, which takes… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›