In his essay on the Chinese Writer and academic Lu Xun (1881-1936), Luo Xuanmin discusses the concept of ying yi (硬译) and yi jie (易解). Lu Xun argued that translation should retain the flavour of the language used in the source text (ying yi), preserving the turns of phrase and poetry of the original.[1] He also argued that Chinese literature needed to adopt foreign linguistic forms which offer syntactical precision (yi jie). He considered classical Chinese, the main literary form in China at his time of writing, to be too dependent on inferred meaning on the part of the reader to serve as an entirely adequate literary form. He wished to import the precise grammatical and semantic forms of European languages into a new Chinese literary language. His ideas were viewed by many of his contemporaries as unpatriotic. Luo Xuanmin encourages an understanding of the work of Asian-American writers through the concept of ying yi and yi jie. He contends that a literature which contains an awareness of both Western and Asian literary and linguistic forms might provide a bridge between the Asian-American experience and that of other American cultures. For such literature to be effective, he argues, it should offer a precision of meaning, and a sensitivity to potential syntactic confusion, negotiating a form which ‘draw[s] nourishment’ (Luo; 2007, 48) from Asian literature and culture. He argues that it is the duty of Asian American writers to work as translators, bringing Asian literature to other languages and cultures.
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News Review: April 2013
Americas
Canada
Culture
Calgary Comic Expo took place between the 26th and 28th April. As seen from the CTV story, the emphasis in this expo is moving from comics to other forms of entertainment. Link (26/04/2013, English, PW)
Research
Damon Herd has designed the poster for the upcoming conference, Comics & the Multimodal World, taking place at Douglas College in June. Link (03/04/2013, English, WG)
Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia, hosted its first comics conference. Link 1 (English, PW)
The complete program for the conference, New Narrative VI: Seeing is believing! Voir c’est croire!, has been published online. The event will take place on the 10th May at the University of Toronto. This coincides with the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (11th-12th May). Link (English, WG)
United States
Business
Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. reports on their 100 best-selling comics for March 2013. Link (English, EG & MB)
Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. reports on their 100 best-selling graphic novels for March 2013. Link (English, EG & MB)
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources reports that parent company AOL has shut down the three time Eisner Award nominated blog, ComicsAlliance, as of the 26th April. Link (29/04/2013, English, EG & MB)
Culture
Comic-Con International has announced the 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees, including the categories of Best Comics-Related Book and Best Educational/Academic Work. Link (16/04/2013, English, EG)
The Comics Beat hosts a transcript of a 2013 Diamond Retailer Summit speech from Image Comics publisher, Eric Stephenson. Stephenson talks about “the way forward” for comic shops and promises major announcements during a one-day Image-hosted event in San Francisco on the 2nd July. Link (25/04/2013, English, EG)
Chicago Tribune reporter Christopher Borrelli reports on the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo. Link (28/04/2013, English, EG)
The comic book genre takes the stage in the production “Adventures of a Comic Book Artist” between the 2nd and 5th May, at the Children’s Theater at The Phipps Center for the Arts, in Hudson, Wisconsin. Link (English, MB)
Free Comic Book Day takes place across the United States on the 4th May. The event is annually held on the first Saturday of May, with most comic book retailers participating. Location finder and details of national/global events are included on the website. Link (English, MB)
The Big Wow Comic Fest is being held at the San Jose Convention Center on the 18th and 19th May. A Creature Features Show has been added to this year’s con experience. Link (English, MB)
Denver Comic Con (DCC) will be held between the 31st May and the 2nd June, at the Colorado Convention Center. Link (English, MB)
Boston Comic Con will be held in a new location this year: Seaport World Trade Center. The event takes place between the 3rd and 4th August, and single and weekend tickets are available. Link (English, MB)
Law
The adult manga magazine Comic Megastore has been suspended pending a police investigation for obscenity. Also under investigation is the magazine, Nyan 2 Club, which collects reader submitted erotica. Link (25/04/2013, English, MB)
Research
There is a call for papers for a collection entitled The Ages of Iron Man: Essays on the Armored Avenger in Changing Times. Essays should focus on Iron Man’s comic book adventures and should look at a single period of comic book history. Abstracts are due on the 15th July. Link (15/04/2013, English, EG & MB)
Columbus College of Art and Design, located in Ohio, released a call for papers in conjunction with their 2013 Celebration of Comics Symposium. Bone creator Jeff Smith will be the keynote guest at the symposium. Link (23/04/2013, English, EG)
ImageTexT (Volume 6, Issue 3), has recently been published. It focuses upon Shakespeare and visual rhetoric. Link (English, EG & MB)
There is a call for papers for a collection entitled “Spyfi & Superspies: A Collection of Essays Analyzing the Cultural Response to the James Bond Phenomenon”. The editor seeks submissions that explore and analyse the influence of the James Bond franchise on popular culture (including comic books). Abstracts are due on the 1st June. Link (30/04/2013, English, MB)
Technology
Apple has a program patent which can link a person’s in-game choices to populate a post-game comic book that could be published on the cloud, and then downloaded to various devices. It is still in its conceptual stage, and it is uncertain whether the product will be marketed in the future. Link (23/04/2013, English, MB)
Asia
Indonesia
Research
The 5th International Scholarly Conference will be held at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), and is co-organised by Kyoto Seika University International Manga Research Center (IMRC), Goethe Institut, and Lim Cheng-Tju. The conference takes place between the 14th and 16th June, with a pre-event on the 13th June. Link (English, JBS)
Japan
Culture
On the 5th May, manga artist and illustrator Katsuya Terada will hold a live drawing event at the Kyoto International Manga Museum. Link (Japanese, JBS)
On the 25th May, Yoshihoro Ikegawa, producer of Koro Koro Comics Archives, and Nobuhiko Saito, manga editor and researcher, will talk on manga as a satisfying hobby, at the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library. Link (Japanese, JBS)
Philippines
Culture
Summer Komikon 2013 took place on the 13th April in Pasig City. According to the organisers, there were more attendees this year based on ticket sales, up by 250 from last year’s 2000. There were also more exhibitors and new artists taking up tables to sell their own comics. The Summer Komikon (in April each year) is starting to eclipse the main Komikon event in November. There is talk of getting a bigger venue for next year. Link (English, LCT)
Europe
Belgium
Research
The conference, The Cultural Standing of Comics: Ambiguities and Changes, took place between the 2nd and 3rd May, at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve. Link (French, WG)
Croatia
Culture
The comic book and street art festival Ohoho! took place in Zagreb from the 18th to the 20th April. Underground writers and illustrators from Croatia, and the surrounding region, exhibited their work. Photos from the festival are available through the link. Link (20/04/2013, Croatian, LO)
On the 23rd April, World Book and Copyright Day saw a talk organised in Booksa, the book club in Zagreb. The participants discussed Croatian self-published comic books from the 1990s. Link (22/04/2013, Croatian, LO)
Denmark
Culture
The nominations for the Ping prize have been revealed. Link (16/04/2013, Danish, RPC)
Danish magazine nummer9 reports on the accusations of racism in Danish cartoonist Jakob Martin Strid’s Mustafas kiosk, which is no longer published in Sweden. Link (19/04/2013, Danish, RPC)
Research
The sixth newsletter for NNCORE (Nordic Network for Comics Research) about conferences and workshops has been published this month. Link (English, RPC)
France
Business
Zep’s Une histoire d’hommes will be the first album published by Ecole de Loisirs’ new BD publishing division Rue de Sèvres, in September 2013. Link (30/04/2013, French, LTa)
Eight of the major French publishers attempted to reproduce America’s Free Comic Book Day, on the 5th and 6th April; each offering a complete album, to be distributed by booksellers. Though some major publishers stayed out of this first attempt, and the operation was not exempt from criticism, it appears to have been successful. Its impact on sales is of course impossible to gauge at this point. Link (12/04/2013, French, NL)
Culture
The Musée des Arts Décos in Paris is hosting a Winshluss exhibit from the 17th April to the 13th November. Winschluss received the Grand Prize in Angoulême in 2008 for his wordless album, Pinocchio. He also co-directed Persepolis with Marjane Satrapi. The exhibit features original art, but also toys, posters and dioramas created or selected by the artist. Link (French/English, NL)
Spirou, an emblematic character created by Rob Vel in April 1938, is now 75. He is still one of the most recognisable characters and brands in the French-speaking comics market, and on the 21st April, Dupuis (which publishes Spirou magazine as well as the character’s albums) organised a grand celebration in Brussels’ Atomium. The commemoration also gave Dupuis the opportunity to formally present Spirou.Z, its online magazine. Link (24/04/2013, French, NL)
Law
Digital BD platform Iznéo has removed 40% of their catalogue (2800 albums) from the Apple Store after Apple judged it “pornographic”. Affected series include Blake & Mortimer, Largo Winch, and XIII. Link (04/04/2013, French, LTa)
Rachida Dati, the former French minister of Justice, lost a case in which she argued that an album focusing on the identity of her child’s father – a much discussed mystery in 2009, when she was still a major political player – was libelous and should be banned from distribution. The court ruled on the 24th April that the album did not violate Dati’s right to privacy, especially since the former minister has been using her child’s image in the media herself over the last four years. Link (24/04/2013, French, NL)
Additional reportage, on the build up towards the verdict on the Rachida Dati case, can be accessed here. Link (23/04/2013, French, LTa)
Obituaries
Fred passed away on the 2nd April, aged 82. He was undoubtedly one of the most idiosyncratic and respected cartoonist in French bande dessinée. He made his name working in Hara-Kiri, where he created one of his masterpieces, Le Petit Cirque, a series of cruel and disturbing tales washed in gray tones. However, his most famous creation, Philemon, was not created in Hara-Kiri but in Pilote, in 1965. Philemon is a charming surreal series, in which the titular character wanders between worlds, visiting the letters of the words “Océan Atlantique”, to be found on most maps. The last Philémon album, Au train où vont les choses, was published last February. Link (03/04/2013, French, NL)
Finland
Culture
The Finnish Central Arts Council has appointed national arts councils for a two-year term. Appointments for the National Council for Media Art, Comics and Illustrations included comics artists Johanna Rojola, Ville Tietäväinen and Riitta Uusitalo. Link (25/04/2013, English, RPC)
Research
The program for the NNCORE (Nordic Network for Comics Research) in Helsinki has been published. Link (English, RPC)
Germany
Culture
The convention, Berliner Comicmesse, took place on the 14th April; guests included Cameron Stewart. Link (04/04/2013, German, MdlI)
The convention, Comic Invasion Berlin, took place on the 21st April; guests included Naomi Fearn and Mawil. Link (27/04/2013, German, MdlI)
Research
A workshop on history comics took place in Gießen on the 11th and 12th April. Link (02/04/2013, German, MdlI)
The German Society for Comics Studies ComFor has published a call for papers for its annual conference, focused this year on comics and natural science. The event will take place between the 15th and 17th November, in Erlangen, and abstracts are due on the 20th May. Link (04/04/2013, German, MdlI)
The German Society for Comics Studies ComFor has announced a lecture series at the Munich Comic Festival in May/June. Link (29/04/2013, German, MdlI)
Ireland
Culture
An audio recording from the comics panel at the Dundalk Book Festival has been posted online. Link (29/04/2013, English, SC)
Italy
Obituary
Roberto Giammanco passed away on the 16th April. He published widely on mass communication, including some research into comic books. Link (Italian, WG)
Norway
Business
The Norwegian media statistic say Norwegians read less comics. Link (16/04/2013, Norwegian, RPC)
Spain
Culture
Barcelona International Comics Festival took place between the 11th and 14th April. Guy Delisle, Liniers, Florent Chavouet, Gilbert Shelton, and Kevin Eastman, were just some present at the event. Highlights included the exhibition devoted to Josep Maria Berenguer (editor of La Cúpula); the round table discussion on criticism and analysis of comics today; and Jaume Vidal’s discussion with Florent Chavouet, Guy Delisle, and Liniers, about their portrayals of different cultures and realities. The Ateneum also offered parallel activities, like the interesting presentation by Vicent Sanchís about censorship on comics during Francoism. Link (Spanish, EC)
GRAF took place in Barcelona, on the 13th April. This encounter between artists, readers and publishers focused on independent creation, self-publishing, crowd funding, and the relation between comics and other arts. The event had a very dynamic, vibrant and inspiring atmosphere, hosting various round tables, discussions and exhibitions. Link (Spanish, EC)
Famous cinema and art critic Carlos Díaz Maroto discussed the origins of comics in relation to the origins of cinema at the National Library in Madrid on the 18th April. Link (Spanish, EC)
“Love in the time of hipsters” took place in Madrid on the 25th April. Exploring the latest and most controversial video clips, comics, and animated pieces, Elisa G. McCausland spoke about different manifestations of love in comics at La Casa Encendida. Link (Spanish, EC)
Sweden
Culture
The Stockholm International Comics Festival took place between the 26th and 28th April. Link (Swedish, RPC)
The nominations for the Urhund prize have been revealed. Link (27/04/2013, Swedish, RPC)
UK
Culture
Downthetubes provide a photo review of the University of Dundee’s Dundee Comics Expo 2013, which took place on the 30th March. Link (05/04/2013, English, WG)
Research
The call for papers for Transitions 4 has been published. Like previous years, the event will be a one-day symposium promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics. Abstracts are due by the 30th July, for the event on the 2nd November, at Birkbeck, University of London. Link (English, WG)
Oceania
Australia
Obituary
Jim Shepherd, managing director of Frew Publications – the Australian publisher of The Phantom – passed away on the 15th April. Link (16/04/2013, English, WG)
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Thinking about comics scholarship by James Chapman
I would like to use the opportunity of this blog post to offer a few thoughts on the current state of comics research. One thing I don’t feel I have to do on this forum is to explain why comics matter or justify spending time researching them. (That’s not always the case. More than once, while I was writing my book British Comics, I was asked questions like “You mean you’re being paid to read comics?” “Well, no, not as such …” I would start to reply, but the interculotor was usually no longer listening, having already turned to someone else to say “Hey, this professor is paid to read comics, how cool is that!”) But there are points to raise, and issues to discuss, about how we go about researching comics, and in particular whether ‘comics studies’ can be said to be a subject and a discipline in its own right in the way that, say, film studies and television studies are.
Between Supermen: Homosociality, Misogyny, and Triangular Desire in the Earliest Superman Stories by Eric Berlatsky
Fig 1, ™ and © DC Comics.
The Superman “shield” most familiar to contemporary readers is a pentagon. Emblazoned on his chest, it is a recognizable symbol of the “first superhero” whose emergence in Action Comics in 1938 gave birth to the genre most associated with the history of American comics. Interestingly, however, the symbol has little resemblance to that which first appeared on Superman’s chest in his debut. In those early days, Superman, created, by Jerry Siegel (writer) and Joe Shuster (artist), had a simple triangle on his chest, with a sinuous “S” in its center. The shift in insignia is largely insignificant, but the original shape is reflective of the ways in which those early stories revolve around a “love triangle” that is both familiar and unconventional. [1]
Fig 2, ™ and © DC Comics.
News Review: March 2013
Americas
Brazil
Culture
The first issue of Antílope, an independent magazine on comics, and comics criticism, has just been published. Link (Portuguese, GS)
United States
Business
Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. report on their 100 best selling comics for February 2013. Link (25/03/2013, English, HMS)
Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. report on their 100 best selling graphic novels for February 2013. Link (25/03/2013, English, HMS)
The Comics Beat reports that Monkeybrain Comics will be venturing into print format with IDW and Image. Link (27/02/2013, English, HMS)
Brooks Barnes of the New York Times discusses Marvel’s display of commitment to digital formats by releasing hundreds of first issues for free on Comixology. Link (10/03/2013, English, HMS)
Jeet Heer conducts an interview with Walter Biggins, who is about to quit his role as acquisitions editor for the University of Mississippi Press. Biggins has been behind a number of notable comics related academic texts from the Press. Link (18/03/2013, English, WG)
Culture
The Comics Beat’s Heidi MacDonald reports that the Small Press Expo has revealed its 2013 poster and the Expo’s invited guests. Link (04/03/2013, English, HMS)
The first ever Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize winners have been announced, including Chris Ware. The finalists in the 2013 Spectrum Fantastic Art Awards have also been announced, with video content of finalists and their artwork. Link (04/03/2013, English, HMS)
Publisher’s Weekly’s Calvin Reid interviews the Society of Illustrators on its role in giving the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art a new location and a redesigned festival in April in New York. Link (12/03/2013, English, HMS)
The Soho Gallery for Digital Art in New York, in conjunction with former Marvel editor and writer Danny Fingeroth, will host a Comic Book Round Table discussion entitled “The Man of Steel vs. Orson Scott Card” to address the recent controversy over Card’s openly anti-gay politics and the industry. Panellists will include David Gerrold, Joseph Phillip Illige, Paul Kupperberg, Jeff Trexler, Danny Fingeroth, and Adam Dekraker. The event will be held on the 10th April. Link (English, HMS)
Alex Lockwood of PhD Comics takes us to the Comic Arts Conference to explore the academic side of Comic-Con. Link (English, WG)
Education
Betsy Gomez at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund updates reports that Persepolis has been reputedly banned in a Chicago School. Link (15/03/2013, English, HMS)
Law & Politics
Betsy Gomez at The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund announces that the CBDLF will defend Persepolis by sending a letter of condemnation. Link (15/03/2013, English, HMS)
Research
The Third Triennial Academic Conference at the Festival of Cartoon Art announces a call for papers. The conference will be held at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University on the 14th and 15th November. 250-500 word abstracts and a one-page CV are due by the 1st July. Link (English, HMS)
There is a call for papers for a collection entitled Contemporary Uses of Fairy Tales. The editor seeks submissions focusing upon comic texts Lost Girls and Fables amongst other things. Abstracts are due by the 19th June. Link (19/03/2013, English, WG)
Technology
Bruce Lidl at The Comics Beat discusses the emergence of new digital devices and upgraded technology on smart phones and tablets in the wake of Marvel’s new digital initiative. Link (22/03/2013, English, HMS)
Asia
Japan
Culture
Manga artists Katsuya Terada, Tadahiro Uesugi, and Daisuke Tsutsumi talk about the SKETCHTRAVEL project at the Kyoto International Manga Museum, on the 20th April. Link (English, JBS)
Singapore
Culture
The first 24 Hour Comics Day in Singapore was held in 2010. After three editions, an exhibition of the works was held at the Jurong Regional Library, after which it will travel to two other public libraries to reach out to the community. The exhibition is from the 19th March to the 31st July. Link (14/03/2013, English, LCT)
Europe
Belgium
Culture
Belgian author François Schuiten donates 80% of his original work to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Roi Baudoin Foundation. The BNF will receive the originals of the Cités obscures series. The Belgian Centre for Bande Dessinée (CBBD) and the Angoulême Bande Dessinée Museum will also receive works. Link (26/03/2013, French, LTa)
Recyclart’s exhibition “Don’t Shoot! We Are Not Armed!” displays a variety of South African underground comics artwork. Link (27/03/2013, English, MR)
Obituary
Belgian bande dessinée writer Didier Comès, author of Silence and Le Dieu vivant, has died at the age of 71. Link 1 (07/03/2013, French, LTa), Link 2 (07/03/2013, French, LTa)
Croatia
Culture
Comic book illustrator and film animator, Borivoj Dovniković Bordo, held a talk on the 19th March at the book club, Booksa. The artist, who has already won several lifetime achievement awards, talked about his career in Yugoslavia, Croatia, and abroad. Link (19/03/2013, Croatian)
Denmark
Culture
Danish comics celebrate their 100th birthday. Link (04/03/2013, Danish, RPC)
France
Business
Publisher Dupuis has bought out Marsu Productions, which was founded by Spirou author André Franquin. Dupuis will take control of Marsu’s catalogue, including Spirou and 150 other titles. Link 1 (26/03/2013, French, LTa), Link 2 (26/03/2013, English, LTa)
Germany
Culture
“Chicks on Comics”, is an exhibition by female comic artists, taking place in Berlin at Alpha Nova Kulturwerkstatt & Galerie Futura from the 15th March to the 26th April. Link (18/03/2013, German, MdlI)
Research
The ComFor weblog has published a series of posts on unreliable narration in comics. Link (24/03/2013, German, MdlI)
Greece
Culture
The dates and full program of Comicdom Con Athens 2013 have been announced. The event takes place between the 19th and the 21st April. Link (English, LTs)
Asterix visits the Archeological Museum of Kisamos. Link (Greek, LTs)
The exhibition “Comics and Crisis” sees Greek, Spanish, and Argentinian comic artists display works inspired by the current crisis. Link (Spanish, LTs)
“Food, Glorious Food! Bost and the Press” is an exhibition focused on Bost’s satirical cartoons featured in the press and periodicals, from the end of the 1950s until 1980. It will take place between the 5th April and the 19th May. Link (English, LTs)
Education
“Writing with the Incredible Mr. Escher” is an educational program for children aged between 7 and 11 focusing on comics and storytelling. The program ends on the 14th April. Link (English, LTs)
Research
Discussion panels on the digital age, art, and comics and crisis, took place at the Cervantes Institute in Athens on the 20th March. Link 1, Link 2 (Spanish, LTs)
Norway
Culture
Norway gets a new comics festival for children and young adults. Seriefest will take place between the 26th and 28th April. Link (14/03/2013, Norwegian, RPC)
Romania
Culture
Romania hosted its first Comic Con. The ”East European Comic Con” took place in Bucharest between the 30th and 31st March. It featured the work of local cartoonists, as well as gaming, illustration, and cosplay competitions. Link (Romanian, MP)
Serbia
Culture
Serbian artists made an event in honor of the departed comic book artist Jean Giraud (a.k.a Moebius). On the 21st March (the first anniversary of Moebius’ death), a 24-hour drawing competition took place in the French Institute in Belgrade. This was a part of the exposition “To Be Continued… – Three Generations of Contemporary Serbian Comics.” Link (22/03/2013, Croatian, LO)
Spain
Culture
XVIII Granada Comic Festival took place between the 8th and the 12th March. Quino, famous creator of popular Mafalda, was the special guest, among other national and international artists. Link (Spanish, EC)
The 31st International Comic Convention will take place in Barcelona, from the 11th to the 14th April. The most important event on comics in Spain will host artists such as Gilbert Shelton and Guy Delisle. Exhibitions are thematic, such as one on 75 years of Superman, and others devoted to the work of award winning and recognised national artists. Link (Spanish, EC)
There is a comics and architecture exhibition, featuring Max Vento’s work alongside other artists work that is related to architecture. The exhibition will be open until the 30th April. Link (07/03/2013, Spanish, EC)
“Homage-Exhibition: A Century of Comics” is a retrospective of comics from the Valencian community (1913-2013). Valencia has been at the core of comic creation for the last century. Even during the difficult times of Francoism, Valencian artists managed to keep the quality of their works and combine them with entertainment, and mass production working conditions. This is a homage to their careers and a display of their wonderful past and present works. Link (Spanish, EC)
Jobs
“Fundación Botín” Arts Grant has one grant available for national and international artists, with comics creators included. The grant will last 9 months and applications are due by the 23rd April. Link (Spanish, EC)
UK
Culture
The special guests for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (18th-20th October) have been announced. Link (English, WG)
Obituary
The Guardian reports on the death of Colin Andrew, who drew strips for Dr Who Magazine, and Eagle, amongst other things. Link (24/03/2013, English, WG)
Research
There is a call for papers for a collection upon the various works of Neil Gaiman, entitled “Magic and Dreams and Good Madness: Sociology and Neil Gaiman.” 500 word abstracts, along with a short biography, are due on the 1st June. Link (13/03/2013, English, WG)
There is a call for papers entitled “Time Travel in the Media”. Amongst other mediums, the editors seek submissions looking at time travel in comics and graphic novels. 500 word abstracts are due on the 16th June. Link (12/03/2013, English, WG)
There is a call for papers for a collection focusing upon Josh Whedon’s Firefly. Amongst other things, the editors seek submissions focusing upon the comic book series. 300-500 word abstracts are due on the 1st May. Link (20/03/2013, English, WG)
Registration is now open for the International Graphic Novel and International Bande Dessinée Society Conference, taking place in Glasgow/Dundee (24th-28th June). Link (English, WG)
Registration is now open for Ethics Under Cover, Comics, Medicine and Society: 4th International Conference on Comics and Medicine, taking place in Brighton (5th-7th July). Link (English, WG)
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