Americas

United States

Culture

Between Love & Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s is an exhibition currently on display at the Lawndale Art Center in Texas. It runs until the 25th March. Link (English, WG)

Education

Rice University are currently piloting a project in which engineering students use comics creation to help communicate their data. Link (English, WG)

Research

ImageTexT 9.3 has now been published online. Link (English, WG)

AMA Journal of Ethics 20.2 is a special themed issue on Graphic Medicine and Health Care Ethics. Link (English, WG)

The Will Eisner Week Comics Studies Symposium will take place at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum on the 8th March. Link (English, WG)

Issue 48 of the quarterly journal, White House History, is a special issue focused upon Political Cartoons and the White House. Link (English, WG)

There is a CFP for the panel “Heroes from the Gutter: Comics as Activism”, which is part of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference. The conference takes place in Birmingham, AL, in November. Abstract proposals for this panel are due by the 1st May. Link (English, WG)

There are CFPs for three panels, as part of the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum, which will take place at the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago in January 2019. Details of the panels, Comics Fandom in Transition; Making Comics, Making Meaning; and Graphic Medicine can be found via the link. Link (English, WG)

There is a CFP for the panel, Beyond Manga: Comics in Asia, which will take place at the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago in January 2019. Abstract proposals are due by the 15th March. Link (15/02/2018, English, WG)

Europe

France

Business

According to a study by Livres Hebdo, the comics market rose by 2% in 2017, in comparison to 1.1% for books in general: the best selling book of all types was the latest Astérix BD, Astérix et la transitalique. Link (03/02/2018, French, LT)

Germany

Culture

A Kristina Gehrmann exhibition is shown in Hamburg until the 10th March. Link (08/02/2018, German, MdlI)

An exhibition on “Manga – Bijinga – Shunga” is shown in Brunsbüttel until the 8th April. Link (12/02/2018, German, MdlI)

Three comic exhibitions are shown in Oldenburg on the 1st April, 2nd April and 6th May, respectively. Link (19/02/2018, German, MdlI)

A Nils Oskamp exhibition is shown in Büren-Wewelsburg until the 29th April. Link (19/02/2018, German, MdlI)

This year’s Animagic convention is going to take place in Mannheim from the 3rd until the 5th August; guests include Maybe. Link (19/02/2018, German, MdlI)

Research

The Call for Papers for this year’s ComFor (German Society for Comics Studies) conference, which is going to take place from the 17th-19th September in Cologne, has been published; the deadline for abstracts is the 1st April. Link (01/02/2018, English, MdlI)

A symposium in honour of Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff was held in Frankfurt on the 27th January. Link (15/02/2018, German, MdlI)

A comics symposium is going to take place in Karlsruhe from the 23rd – 25th March. Link (19/02/2018, German, MdlI)

An international summer school on “topographies of comics and visual narration” is going to take place in Cologne from the 27th August until the 7th September; the deadline for applications is the 15th March. Link (22/02/2018, German, MdlI)

Portugal

Culture

From the 2nd of March until the 29th, the Promotional Week of Comics will take place in the D. Dinis Library in Odivelas. Entrance is free. Link (24/02/2018, Portuguese, RR)

Spain

Culture

The first edition of Heroes Comic Con València took place in Valencia from the 22 to the 24th February 2019 with more than 23.000 visitors. Link (26/02/2018, Spanish, EdRC)

A new edition of the independent and self-published comics festival GRAF will take place in Madrid from the 2nd to the 3rd March in Barcelona. Link (15/01/2018, Spanish/English, EdRC)

Obituaries

Antonio Fraguas de Pablo (more known as Forges), one of the most famous Spanish graphic humorists, passed away. Link (22/02/2018, Spanish, EdRC)

UK

Culture

The University of Dundee will host of a live drawing session with the comics artist Cam Kennedy on the 6th March. Link (English, WG)

Research

The Graphic Social Science Research Network blog has published a series of posts relating to the subject of graphic social science. Link (English, WG)

The symposium, The Original Writer: Reading Alan Moore, takes place in Senate House, University of London, on the 17th March. Link (English, WG)

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Correspondents: Enrique de Rey Cabero (EdRC, Spain), William Grady (WG, UK and United States), Martin de la Iglesia (MdlI, Germany), Renata Rafaella (RR, Portugal), and Lise Tannahill (LT, France)

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