Writing Visual Culture is the open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal of the University of Hertfordshire’s TVAD Research Group. The journal’s focus is the relationship between text, narrative and image. We are currently seeking submissions for a new themed edition examining… Read More ›
Cardiff University’s Centre for Language and Communication Research has been working with South African charity Whizzkids United to produce a comic book in which teenagers tell their own stories to support HIV/AIDS education. The charity’s main programme involves using football… Read More ›
On October 13th 1913, George Herriman’s Krazy Kat – one of the most outstanding comic strips ever created – was first published in The New York Evening Journal. Krazy Kat initiated a whole new way of thinking about comics, and… Read More ›
A call for papers for Transitions 4 – New Directions in Comics Studies has just been published. Transitions will be a one-day symposium at the University of London in November, promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics, comix,… Read More ›
Melissa Leons – hunting fairies incontemporary culture Doctor Melissa Lenos, an Assistant Professor of English at Donnelly College in Kansas City, Kansas, is inviting submissions for an edited collection of essays on contemporary uses of fairy tales in popular culture…. Read More ›
Digital comics are pushing boundaries on many fronts, but one British company is pushing them into the classroom, aiming to harness the timeless appeal of comics to create a uniquely engaging learning tool. The first Comics in the Classroom projects… Read More ›
A call for papers for a forthcoming conference on Conflict in Children’s and Young Adult Fiction at the University of Bedfordshire has just been announced – and comics and graphic novels will be on the agenda. The Hockliffe Conference: Conflict… Read More ›
The Rhodes Colossus: a caricature in Punch, published in December 1892, by Linley Sambourne of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line and railroad from Cape Town to Cairo. A group of academics has put out… Read More ›
Judge Dredd by Rob Davis Anyone interested in the crossover between justice and graphic fiction might be interested in the new Graphic Justice project, instigated by Thomas Giddens at St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham. “Comics, cartoons, graphic novels, and other… Read More ›
Comic Fans, TV fans, film fans – you’re being studied! European Fandom and Fan Studies, a one day symposium, will take place on 10th November 2012 at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and University of Amsterdam Department of Media… Read More ›
What is the future of illustration studies? What can comics scholars learn from animation studies and vice versa? Do illustrated books or graphic novels resist the supposed obsolescence of the book? What do pictures want (now)? These and related questions… Read More ›
Abstracts are now being accepted for inclusion in an anthology to be produced by UK comic scholars on “The Adventures of Tintin.” Proposed essay topics should creatively engage with the critical, philosophical, and social issues explored in the Tintin universe…. Read More ›
(With thanks to Norman Boyd): New certificate level comics courses are starting at Birkbeck, University of London from this autumn.Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels: IntroductionThis module introduces you to a range of comics in a variety of forms and invites… Read More ›
Today sees the launch of a new resource on the Comics Forum website. The scholar directory provides information on the biographies, research interests, conference papers and publications of scholars researching comics from around the world. The site runners tells us… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
A new set of comic book characters, The 100% Awesomes, has been created by Doctor Who Adventures and Blake’s 7 audio adventures writer Simon Guerrier for the Autism Education Trust to promote awareness of difference and autism. The superhero characters… Read More ›
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 ›
Surrey based independent publisher, Is It Just Media?, have announced the arrival of The Adventures of ROBOB, a new interactive magazine and trading card game aimed at primary school children which includes an element of contributed comic strip. The magazine… Read More ›
The organisers of the Sixth International Comedy Conference, which will take place later at the University of Salford have issued a Call for Papers. The theme for this year’s two-day conference is ‘Drawing The Line’ and the academic event aims… Read More ›