Americas
United States
Culture
The shortlist for the 2019 Eisner Awards has been announced, which includes the category for Best Academic/Scholarly Work. Link (English, WG)
Obituary
Professor Don Ault, scholar of William Blake, American comics artist Carl Barks, and founder of the comics studies journal, ImageTexT, passed away on the 13th April. The International Journal of Comic Art’s blog has republished a memoire he wrote in 2003. Link (English, WG)
Research
There is a CFP for a special themed issue of the journal, Paradoxa, which will focus upon comics and graphic novels. The deadline for proposals is the 1st September. Link (English, WG)
Europe
Germany
Culture
An e. o. plauen and Line Hoven exhibition is shown in Plauen until the 6th October. Link (04/04/2019, German, MdlI)
This year’s DoKomi festival in Düsseldorf is going to take place on the 8th and 9th June; guests include Guilt | Pleasure. Link (06/04/2019, German, MdlI)
An exhibition on feminism in comics is shown in Nuremberg until the 16th May. Link (15/04/2019, German, MdlI)
An exhibition of current Swedish comics with female characters is shown in Berlin until the 19th June. Link (German, MdlI)
An e. o. plauen exhibition is shown in Schwarzenbach until the 8th September. Link (29/04/2019, German, MdlI)
Research
A workshop on Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb took place in Cologne on the 3rd May. Link (08/04/2019, German, MdlI)
This year’s annual conference of the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor) is going to take place in Schwarzenbach from the 8th – 10th November; the deadline for abstract submissions is the 5th May. Link (09/04/2019, English, MdlI)
The German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor) has published an overview of German university classes on comics in this summer semester. Link (15/04/2019, German, MdlI)
A workshop on medieval comics and the Middle Ages in comics took place in Tübingen on the 26th and 27th April. Link (18/04/2019, German, MdlI)
Spain
Business
Tebeox, the first digital comics publishers has been established. Link (12/04/2019, Spanish EdRC)
Culture
The 37th edition of the Barcelona International Comic Fair took place last month. Antonio Altarriba received the Grand Prize and Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters was awarded the Best Foreign Work published in Spain. Link (27/04/2019, Spanish, EdRC)
Research
The 2nd International Conference of Interdisciplinary Comics Studies will take place at the University of Zaragoza on the 15th, 16th and 17th May. Link (23/04/2019, Spanish, EdRC)
Switzerland
Culture
This year’s Fumetto festival in Lucerne took place from the 6th – 14th April; guests included Emil Ferris and Joann Sfar. Link (04/04/2019, German, MdlI)
UK
Job
There is a job advertisement for a Senior Lecturer to teach on the BA course, Comic & Concept Art, at Leeds Arts University. The deadline for applications is the 2nd June. Link (English, WG)
Research
There is a CFP for the conference, Picturing Sound: The Static Visual Paratexts of Music, which takes place at the University of Glasgow on the 12th December. Proposals are due by the 2nd August. Link (English, WG)
The programme for the Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Comics and Bande Dessinées, “Storyworlds and Transmedia Universes”, has been published online. The conference takes place between the 24th and 28th June at Manchester Metropolitan University. Link (English, WG)
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