Later this month Comics Forum and the organisers of the Thought Bubble convention will be running an evening event in Leeds to discuss the philosophical questions posed by comics. The speakers at ‘Comics and Philosophy: From Maus to She-Hulk’ wil… Read More ›
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Comics Forum launches "scholar directory"
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 ›
Comics Forum for comic studies gets overhaul, adds digital texts
(with thanks to Norman Boyd): The Comics Forum website (http://comicsforum.org) has recently had something of a makeover and now includes the addition of a new ‘Scholarly Resources‘ section for anyone interested in the study of comics (accessible from the top… Read More ›
Sculpture and Comic Art feature for Comics Forum
The second edition of Sculpture and Comic Art by Kirstie Gregory is now available on the Comics Forum blog. Entitled ‘Chris Ware: Cabinets, Cardboard and Joseph Cornell’, the piece will be of interest to anyone who’s thinking about submitting a… Read More ›
Academic Comics Forum registration opens
Registration for Comics Forum, a two-day academic event taking place as part of this year’s Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival in Leeds, is now open. The Forum includes the Women in Comics II conference on 18th November and Theory and… Read More ›