Africa

South Africa

Culture

Icon Gaming Convention took place in Johannesburg. For the first time the event featured panel discussions regarding animation, comic books and cartooning. All talks were live streated and will be available on YouTube within two weeks. Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 (English, MR)

Americas

Canada

Research

Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives, edited by Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley, has been published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Link (English, WG)

USA

Culture

75 years worth of Superman memorabilia will be exhibited at Cleveland Public Library. Link (21/06/2016, English, WG)

Research

In connection with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s new exhibit on children’s comics, they offer a free to download edited collection of original essays on children’s comics entitled, Good Grief! Children and Comics. Link (English, WG)

Visualizing Jewish Narrative: Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels, edited by Derek Parker Royal, has been published through Bloomsbury. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for papers for the edited collection The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In. Abstracts are due by the 1st December. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for papers for the conference, ‘Monstrous Women in Comics—an Interdisciplinary Conference on Women in Comics and Graphic Novels’, which takes place in May 2017 at the University of North Texas. Abstracts are due by the 1st September. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for papers for a range of panels relating to comics at the Northeast MLA Baltimore Conference, which takes place in March 2017. The deadline for proposals is the 30th September 2016. Link (English, WG)

Asia

Japan

Culture

Onthe 7th August, there will be a talk event with manga artist Eguchi Hisashi at Kyoto International Manga Museum. An exhibition of the work of the same artist, ‘KING OF POP’ is running until the 4th September. Link (English, JBS)

Obituaries

Shojo manga artist Sato Tomoe, who debuted in the popular girls manga magazine Ribon in 1965, has passed away at the age of 83. Link (02/06/2016, Japanese, JBS)

Europe

Belgium

Research

There is a call for papers for the upcoming conference titled ‘Tintin au XXIe siècle: territoires et temporalités’ in Louvain-la-Neuve on the 17 until the 20 May, 2017. Abstracts are due by the 15 September, 2016. Link (09/06/2016, French, BC)

France

Culture

The Strasbulles comics festival in Strasbourg held an exhibition on British comics, with Posy Simmonds, Pat Mills and Dave McKean. It also held a series of conferences on comics by young comics scholars of LaBrèche. Link (10/06/2016, French, BC)

Twelve comics experts and authors – among which Florence Cestac and François Schuiten – have proposed a project titled Angoulême, la renaissance, which offers propositions to renew the International Comics Festival of Angoulême, responding to the severe polemics the festival had faced in January. Link (03/06/2016, French, BC)

Research

In collaboration with the comics festival titled ‘On a marché sur la bulle in Amiens’, the Université Picardie Jules Verne hosted a study day on women and comics on the 2 June. Link (02/06/2016, French, BC)

Benoît Berthou and Jacques Dürrenmatt organised a study day, La Bande dessinée : quelles recherches? on the 10 June at the Sorbonne in Paris, bringing together Francophone scholars in order to think about the current state of comics studies. Link (10/06/2016, French, BC)

Germany

Culture

The award, Gustav-Heinemann-Friedenspreis für Kinder- und Jugendbücher, goes to Der Traum von Olympia by Reinhard Kleist this year. Link (17/06/2016, German, MdlI)

The festival, CosDay, will take place in Frankfurt am Main on the 9th and 10th July; guests include Martina Peters. Link (English, MdlI)

Law & Politics

Public funding for comic creators has been discussed in the Berlin state parliament. Link (13/06/2016, German, MdlI)

Research

A symposium on comics and animation will take place in Hanover in November 2016. Link (German, MdlI)

The half-day workshop, Blood in the Gutter: Uncertainty and Speculation in Contemporary American Comics, will take place in Bayreuth on the 15th July. Link (16/06/2016)

The ComFor panel presentations at this year’s Comic-Salon Erlangen have been made available as videos on YouTube. Link (23/06/2016, German, MdlI)

Portugal

Culture

On the 23rd and 24th July, the School Manuel António Pina, in Vila Nova de Gaia, will host the ‘Central Comics Fest’16’. Link (26/06/2016, Portuguese RR)

From the 23rd June until the 26th August, the Bedeteca of Amadora gallery is hosting an exhibition by the authors Augusto Trigo and Jorge Magalhães. The exhibition is organized by the Clube Português de Banda Desenhada. Free admission. Link (06/06/2016, Portuguese, RR)

Spain

Business

A new website for comics professionals (editors, authors, etc.) to share ideas and their work has been created. Link (09/06/2016, English, EdRC)

Culture

The 10th FNAC-Salamandra International Graphic Novel Prize is open to an original, totally new and completely unpublished graphic novel from any nationality and language. The competition is open until the 2nd December 2016.Link (06/06/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

The exhibition titled ‘Prehistòria i còmic’ can be visited at the Museu de Prehistòria de València until November. Link (06/06/2016, English, EdRC)

The exhibition ‘Valencia. Línea Clara’ can be visited at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern until October. Link (09/06/2016)

Switzerland

Research

The essay collection Pucks en stock. Bande dessinée et sport, edited by Benoît Melançon and Michel Porret, was published through Georg. Link (05/06/2016, French, BC)

UK

Culture

9 Panels Comics Industry Conference took place on the 1st July, and hosted a range of academic and comics industry speakers. Link (English, WG)

Job

There is a job advertisement seeking a PR Assistant at Rebellion Comics. Link (English, WG)

Research

There is a call for papers for a special blog series for US Studies Online entitled, ‘Beyond the Graphic’ – Considering Violence, Sexuality and Obscenity in Comics. Abstracts are due by the 31st August. Link (English, WG)

Comics, Politics, and Adaptation was a one day symposium that took place at the University of Nottingham on the 1st July. Link (English, WG)

Oceania

Australia

Culture

The symposium Super Heroes and Me will be held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne from the 8th until the 9th December 2016

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Correspondents: Enrique del Rey Cabero (EdRC, Spain), Benoît Crucifix (BC, Belgium, France and Switzerland), William Grady (WG, Canada, United States and UK), Martin de la Iglesia (MdlI, Germany), Renatta Rafaella (RR, Portugal), Moray Rhoda (MR, South Africa) and Jessica Bauwens Sugimoto (JBS, Japan).

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