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Comics Forum 2012

19 Nov

Running on the 15th and 16th of November, Comics Forum 2012 brought together nearly eighty academics, comics readers and creators to discuss the medium in depth at Leeds Central Library. Speakers came from around the world to deliver a range of fascinating presentations, and we featured Simone Lia in conversation with Ann Miller, and Charlie Adlard in conversation with Hugo Frey, as our keynote speakers. A huge thank you to all our participants, volunteers and supporters for helping to make the event such a success!

The Comics Forum 2012 page has now been updated and moved into the Comics Forum Archives section on the website. There you can download the full conference programme and speakers’ abstracts and biographies, as well as other conference documents like the poster and the call for papers.

Congratulations to John G. Swogger and William H. Foster III, who won our ‘Pick of the Papers’ prizes at this year’s event. John presented a paper entitled ‘Palauan Storyboard: Comics and narrative context in archaeological fieldwork’ and won Simone Lia’s Fluffy and Please God, Find Me a Husband! after being voted the paper of the day by the audience on Thursday. William talked on Friday about ‘The Changing Image of African American Women in Comics’ and won a copy of The Walking Dead Compendium Volume One. John has also reviewed Comics Forum 2012 here (if you were at Comics Forum 2012 and have reviewed the event, let us know and we’ll put a link in the archive!).

Comics Forum also appeared at this year’s Thought Bubble convention, to talk to people about studying comics in universities and schools. The Comics Forum table was manned by Comics Forum director Ian Hague, and consultant Dr Mel Gibson, and we were absolutely delighted with the response we got from the lovely Thought Bubble crowd! Thanks to everyone who came over for a chat! If we didn’t see you this year, come over and say hello next time…

We ran a raffle at the Comics Forum table, and we can now announce that the winners were:

Top Prizes: One issue of European Comic Art (courtesy of Berghahn), three issues of Studies in Comics and a copy of Ann Miller’s Reading Bande Dessinée (courtesy of Intellect).

Won by Pete Hindle and Darren Moffatt.

Runners Up: One issue of European Comic Art (courtesy of Berghahn).

Won by: Lou Crosby, Lily Glover, Nathalie Henry, Wade Simpson and John H. Thomson.

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Comics Forum 2012 was supported by Thought Bubble, Arts Council England, the University of Chichester, Dr Mel Gibson and Molakoe Graphic Design. Prizes for the Pick of the Papers competition were provided by Travelling Man.

 
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Posted by on 2012/11/19 in Comics Forum 2012, Comics Forum Archives, General, News, Thought Bubble

 

This week: Comics Forum 2012

13 Nov

Comics Forum 2012 is coming up at Leeds Central Library this Thursday and Friday (15th and 16th).

This year’s conference features a fantastic line-up of top speakers from around the world, and tickets start from just £10!

Our keynote speakers are:

Simone Lia (Fluffy; Please God, Find Me a Husband) in conversation with Ann Miller (Reading Bande Dessinée)

Charlie Adlard (2000AD; The Walking Dead) in conversation with Hugo Frey (The Cambridge Introduction to the Graphic Novel (2014))

Also featuring at Comics Forum 2012 are:

Maaheen Ahmed: The mutability of the line and its tendency towards monstrosity: Otherness of and within comics Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru: Narrative Exploration against Mentality Issues: Indirect Education for Multiculturalism in Tintin Jacob Birken: Set Pieces. Is eclectic imagery in Manga “Othering” or practised Polyculturalism? Frank Bramlett: The role of culture in comics of the quotidian Corey K. Creekmur: Multiculturalism Meets the Counterculture: Racial Difference in Underground Comix Umar Ditta: Controversial representations of cultures and relations between cultures Harriet E. H. Earle: Multiculturalism Vs Melting Pot in 9/11 Charity Comics Cameron Fletcher: Spiderman: Manhattan to Mumbai; Crossing more than timelines to make a Global Icon a Glocal Hero William H. Foster III: The Changing Image of African American Women in Comics Mel Gibson: ‘We don’t need no steenkin’ badgers!’ Talbot’s Grandville, anthropomorphism and multiculturalism Lily Glasner: Have you no manners? A Little Girl’s Gift to Her Majesty Simon Grennan: Empowerment requires power: absence, equilibrium and the capacity to influence in comics representations of cultural difference Brenna Clarke Gray & Peter Wilkins: An Innocent at Home: Scott Pilgrim and its Canadian Multicultural Context Sarah D. Harris: The Monster Within and Without: Spanish Comics, Monstrosity, Religion, and Alterity Paul Harrison: Land of Denial – Egypt in Comics Ian Horton: Colonialist Heroes and Monstrous Others: Stereotype and Narrative Form in British Adventure Comic Books Harriet Kennedy: The confused nationalisms of Bojoual: le huron-kébékois Alex Link: Negotiating Multicultural Transnationalism and Assimilative Globalization in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tekkonkinkreet Anna Madill: Caucasian, Japanese, or What? Visual Representation of Race in Boys’ Love Manga Paul M. Malone: Multikulti Manga in Germany; or, Why Frau Merkel Should Read More Comics Andy Mason: The Presidential Penis and Other Scandalous South African Satires: Race, ethnicity and representation in South African comics and political cartooning, from the early 20th century to the present Ana Merino: The Impact of the Latino Identities on the Alternative Landscape of Comics: Thirty Years of Love and Rockets Dana Mihăilescu: Oy, Gevalt, Meydele! The Lower East Side as Mishmash of Jewish Women’s Multicultural Images in Leela Corman’s Unterzakhn Joseph North: Volti nascosti: cultural diversity in the Italian fumetto Hannah O’Connor: Sapphic Supervillains and Dynamic Dykes: Lesbian Heroism and (In)Visibility in Mainstream Graphic Literature Pre- and Post-9/11 Emma Oki: Representations of Asian Americans in Selected Works by Adrian Tomine Mihaela Precup: The Image of the Foreigner in Communist Romanian Comics Ethan Rubin: Robots are People Too: Webcomics and the Social Standing of “Everyday AI” Rebecca Scherr: Framing Subjects: the politics of representation in Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza Mary L. Tabakow: Representations of Asian Guest Workers, European/Regional Expatriates, and Male/Female Omani Nationals in Publicly-Funded Omani Comic Strips John G. Swogger: Palauan Storyboard: Comics and narrative context in archaeological fieldwork Asta Vrečko: ‘No one thinks of winter when the grass is green’ Keina Yoshida: Graphic fiction, visual narratives and international criminal justice

For the running order and timetable click here.

Tickets are priced as follows:

1 day pass (15th or 16th): £10

2 day pass (15th and 16th): £20

4 day pass (Comics Forum 2012 & a two day Thought Bubble convention pass): £30 (save £10 on the cost if bought separately)

To register, email comicsforum@hotmail.co.uk and let us know how many tickets you want. Payment will be taken in cash on the day. Ticket prices include light refreshments but not lunch.

This year, Comics Forum will also be appearing at the Thought Bubble convention so if you’re about do come and say hello! We’ll also be offering up the chance to win some great prizes at the Comics Forum stall, so be sure to fill in an entry form on the day!

See you there!

Ian Hague & Carolene Ayaka

Comics Forum 2012 Directors

Comics Forum 2012 is supported by Thought Bubble, Arts Council England, the University of Chichester, Dr Mel Gibson and Molakoe Graphic Design.

 
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Posted by on 2012/11/13 in Comics Forum 2012, Thought Bubble

 

News Review: October 2012

04 Nov

Americas

Brazil

Culture

Convenção Internacional de Quadrinhos de Curitiba (International Comics Convention of Curitiba) took place between 25th and 28th October, and gathered a large number independent comics artists from the country, establishing itself as one of the biggest comics conventions in Brazil (Link). Full coverage of the event can be read here: Link (29/10/2012, Portuguese, GS)

Research

Jornada de Estudos sobre os Romances Gráficos (Study Day on Graphic Novels) has released its program, approaching a wide range of topics such as experimental comics, translation, literary studies and an overview of the new Brazilian comics. The colloquium will happen on the 19th and 20th November. Link (05/10/2012, Portuguese, GS)

A new journal on comics studies has just been released in Brazil: Nona arte: Brazilian Journal of Comics Research is edited by the Observatório de Histórias em Quadrinhos (USP). The journal is open access; peer reviewed and also accepts foreign articles. Link (Portuguese, GS)

United States 

Business

Publishers Weekly reports on positive trends in digital comics and comics sales, with a downturn for Manga in 2012, as announced at the ICv2 conference for industry professionals leading up to New York Comic Con. Link (English, HMS)

Culture 

Publishers Weekly reports on trends at a record breaking New York Comic Con with consistently increasing attendance in recent years. Link (English, HMS)

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art at the Society of Illustrators in New York City opens a fall exhibition of highlights from its collection from 5th September to 22nd December, following its merger with the Society of Illustrators. Link (English, HMS)

The Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art in New York City has opened its international spring Festival, “MoCCA Fest”, for exhibitor registration. MoCCA Fest specialises in independently produced and small-press comics. Link (English, HMS)

Education 

A week prior to the event, it is announced that Batman producer Michael Uslan will be awarded an honorary Doctorate in Comics from Monmouth University, NJ, on the 13th October, with quotes and reactions from Uslan. Link (08/10/2012, English, HMS)

Rob Spahr of NJ.com, gives a preview of Michael Uslan’s upcoming awards ceremony to receive an honorary Doctorate in Comics from Monmouth University, NJ. Link 1 (10/10/2012, English, HMS). Additional reporting: Link 2 (08/10/2012, English, HMS)

Kate Kostursky of American Libraries Magazine critiques New York Comic Con’s substantial comics and education panels from a librarian’s perspective. Link (12/10/2012, English, HMS)

Law 

Tim Kineally of Reuters reports in the Chicago Tribune on Warner Bros. victory in the Siegel and Shuster lawsuit over intellectual property rights to Superman. Link (18/10/2012, English, HMS)

Jeff Trexler at The Comics Beat gives an in-depth discussion of the Siegel and Shuster/Warner Bros. case and what it might mean for comics ownership in the future. Link (18/10/2012, English, HMS)

Ben Fritz of the LA Times reports on Stan Lee Media, a now defunct company, in its lawsuit against Disney for the copyright to many Marvel characters. Link (10/10/2012, English, HMS)

Research

The Fall 2012 issue of the International Journal of Comic Art (Vol.14, No. 2) has been released. Link (English, WG)

A call for papers has been issued for papers on ‘Comics: Graphic Novels, Strips, Panels, Films, and Everything in Between,’ at the Pop Culture Association National Conference in Washington DC in 2013. Proposal submissions expected by Nicole Freim by the 1st November. Link (English, HMS)

A call for abstracts for the Comics as Scholarship Digital Humanities Quarterly special issue has been announced, to be edited by Anastasia Salter and Roger Whitson. Abstracts are due the 1st January 2013. Link (22/10/2012, English, HMS)

Harper Collins announces the book release of Sean Howe’s research work Marvel: The Untold Story, which explores the history of Marvel comics from the perspective of insiders on the basis of substantial interviews with staffers. Link (09/10/2012, English, HMS)

Asia

Japan

Business

Amazon Japan finally releases the Kindle, with 15,000 manga titles available. Link (25/10/2012, Japanese, JBS)

Culture

The Kitakyushu Manga Museum, the second cultural facility of its kind in Japan, opened in August 2012. Link (Japanese, JBS)

On the 23rd November, the Kyoto International Manga Museum celebrates its sixth anniversary. Director Yoro Takeshi will talk about Manga and Entertainment. Link (Japanese, JBS)

Meiji University’s Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subcultures is organising a talk show on “Gaiman” (foreign manga/comics) on the 24th November. Link (Japanese, JBS)

Education

The Faculty of Manga at Kyoto Seika University has added a Character Design Course and a Gag Manga Course to its four existing courses, to start from the new academic year in April 2013. Link (Japanese, JBS)

Research

The gender study group of the Japanese Society for Studies in Cartoon and Comics has its 18th meeting on the 11th November. Link (Japanese, JBS)

South Korea

Research

The 3rd Mechademia Conference on Anime, Manga and Media Theory from Japan, will be held at Dongguk University, Seoul, from the 29th November to the 2nd December. Link (English, JBS)

Philippines

Culture 

Blush, a Southeast Asian BL Convention, will be held on the 9th December, in Manila. Link (English, JBS)

Singapore

Culture

The third 24 Hours Comics Day was held in Singapore on the 20th October at the Bukit Merah Community Library. Link (English, LCT)

Lim Cheng Tju gave a talk on Singapore comics since the 1980s at the National Museum of Singapore on the 24th October. Link (English, LCT)

Europe 

Denmark

Culture

The Danish comics artist Jakob Martin Strid gets the prize of the crown prince couple. Link (06/10/2012, Danish, RPC)

The festival and exhibition Artbubble took place in Horsens between the 6th & the 7th October. Link (06/10/2012, Danish, RPC)

There’s an exhibition on Osama Tezuka in Viborg until the 4th November. Link (25/08/2012, Danish, RPC)

Technology

Danish Comics Creators have made an app for accessing comics created by Danish artists. Link (23/10/2012, Danish, RPC)

Finland

Research

The Nordic Network for Comics Research (NNCORE) has a CFP for their international conference in Helsinki. The deadline for papers is on the 10th November. Link (23/09/2012, English, RPC)

France

Business 

French company Aquafadas, creator of the digital comics reader AveComics, has been acquired by e-reader manufacturer Kobo. Link (12/10/2012, French, LTa)

FNAC has announced they will no longer sponsor the the Angoulême bande dessinée festival. They cite financial difficulties and their wish to create their own BD prize. Link (16/10/2012, French, LTa)

Culture 

Didier Conrad has been announced as the new illustrator of the Astérix series, beginning with the series’ 35th album, due to be published in 2013. Link (10/10/2012, French, LTa)

Angoulême’s Cité de la BD will rename its Castro Building after Jean Giraud/Moebius. Link (11/10/2012, French, LTa); Link 2 (11/10/2012, French, LTa)

It has been announced that Manga legend, Leiji Matsumoto, will appear at the 2013 Angoulême festival. Link (23/10/2012, French, LTa)

The Musée de la Bande Dessinée will hold an exhibition of 70 preparatory drawings by Edmond Baudoin on Salvador Dali, taken from Dali par Baudoin, published by Dupuis. This will accompany the Centre Pompidou’s major Dali retrospective from the 21st November 2012, until the 24th March 2013. Link (22/10/2012, French, LTa)

Education

Bande dessinée-based teaching resources for French teachers available on TES website. Link (10/10/2012, French/English, LTa)

Obituaries

Claudine Blanc-Dumont, colourist of the series Blueberry and Jonathan Cartland, has died. Link (12/10/2012, French, LTa)

Breton BD author Bruno le Floch, creator of Chroniques Outremers, has died at the age of 55. Link (07/10/2012, French, LTa)

Greece 

Culture

The dates and full program of the 14th International Comics Festival (ex Babel Fetstival) have been announced. After three years of absence the festival is coming back. Link (Greek, LTs)

Education 

Vakalo Art and Design College has announced an annual comics workshop. Link (Greek, LTs)

A seminar on comics translation begins in November. Link (15/10/2012, Greek, LTs)

Research

A new book about Greek comics, based on a PhD reaserch by Greek cartoonist Soloup is coming out. Link  (26/10/2012, Greek, LTs)

Ireland

Culture

Irish Comic News have published a poster for the Dublin Comic Mart, taking place 03/11/2012. Link (24/10/2012, English, SC)

A review of At War With The Empire: Ireland’s Fight For Independence, by David O Leary, has been posted online. Link (03/10/2012, English, SC)

Research

The list of speakers, and some of the abstracts for papers presented at the conference, ‘Grant Morrison and the superhero renaissance’ (Dublin, 14th and 15th September), have been posted online. Link (12/09/2012, English, SC)

Romania 

Culture

Alois Nebel (2011, dir. Tomáš Luňák), the animation film based on the Czech comic book trilogy by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99, won the Prize for the Best Animated Feature at Anim’est – the yearly international animation festival in Bucharest. Link (13/10/2012, English, MP)

PinkHell, an exhibition of 20 contemporary Hungarian cartoonists publishing in PinkHell magazine, was launched in Bucharest by the Hungarian Comics Union and the Hungarian Comics Academy. Link (18/10/2012, Romanian, MP)

A ‘drawing concert’ featuring Swiss cartoonist Kati Rickenbach took place in Bucharest at the National Academy of Music. Rickenbach drew live to the music of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Link (28/10/2012, Romanian, MP)

Slovenia

Culture

The Tolmin Museum has opened an exhibition on the comic Tolmin Peasant Uprising of 1713 by Remigio Gabellini, and Slovenian Classical Authors in Strip in association with Forum Ljubljana, the institute for artistic and cultural production.  After twenty years, ten of the original drawings and a colour version of the comic are on display. Link (13/09/2012, Slovenian, AV)

An exhibition of Slovenian comic book author Marjan Manček (1948, Novo mesto) called ‘Comics and Illustration’ is opened in the Library of Ciril Kosmač, Tolmin, Slovenia. Link 1 (30/10/2012, Slovenian, AV); Link 2 (Slovenian, AV)

There is an exhibition about Iztok Sitar (1962, Ljubljana) – the Slovenian publicist, caricaturist, illustrator, and author of many socially engaged comics books and the book History of Slovenian Comics: 1927-2007 (original title: Zgodovina slovenskega stripa: 1927-2007). Link 1 (31/10/2012, Slovenian, AV); Link 2 (31/10/2012, Slovenian, AV)

Sweden

Culture

Comics artist Joanna Hellgren exhibits at the Swedish Architecture museum in Stockholm. Link (02/10/2012, English, RPC)

The bi-annual Altcon festival in Malmö has the theme ‘No borders’, and takes place between the 7th and 11th of November. Link (English, RPC)

Research

Sweden gets its second PhD dissertation published on comics, Tecknad Tomboy by Ylva Sommerland. Link (22/08/2012, Swedish RPC)

The ”Telling stories” research group in the Nordic Network for Comics Research (NNCORE) got together for a seminar in Malmö (25th & 26th October). Link (25/10/2012, English, RPC)

UK                 

Culture

Bleeding Cool published an extensive interview with Paul Gravett, spanning his career in comics. Link (31/10/2012, English, WG)

Down the Tubes has published their photo review for Dundee Comics Day 2012, which took place on the 28th October at the University of Dundee. Part 1 (29/10/2012, English, WG); Part 2 (01/11/2012, English, WG)

Jobs

A Marvel comics editorial internship has been posted on the Panini Comics website. Link (English, WG)

Research

The poster and keynotes for Comics Forum (15th & 16th November) have been published online. Link (19/10/2012, English, WG)

Last modified on the 29th October, details can be found for the forthcoming Comica Symposium 2012 – Transitions 3: New directions in comic studies (03/11/2012). Link (29/10/2012, English, WG)

Oceania

Australia

Culture/Research

The Manga Library, part of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University, is celebrating its tenth anniversary, with a symposium on 23rd-24th November, and an exhibition of girls manga from 23rd-26th November. Link (English, JBS)

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News Editor: Will Grady (comicsforumnews@hotmail.co.uk)

Correspondents: Lim Cheng Tju (LCT, Singapore), Lida Tsene (LTs, Greece), Lise Tannahill (LTa, France), Shelley Culbertson (SC, Ireland), Rikke Platz Cortsen (RPC, Scandinavia), Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto (JBS, Japan), Mihaela Precup (MP, Romania), Greice Schneider (GS, Brazil), Hannah Means-Shannon (HMS, North America), Asta Vrečko (AV, Slovenia), William Grady (WG, UK).

Click here for News Review correspondent biographies.

Suggestions for articles to be included in the News Review can be sent to Will Grady at the email address above.

 
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Comics Forum News Review: An Introduction by Will Grady

31 Oct

Those of you who attended The Third International Comics Conference: Comics Rock in Bournemouth this past June may have been present at Ian Hague’s talk, ‘Comics Forum: The Plan.’ In it he outlined his future plans for the development of Comics Forum. Amongst other ambitious ideas, he talked of his plan to house a news service on the Comics Forum website. A service that would provide a monthly review of relevant news links for the comic scholar community. Ian wanted the news service to have international appeal, with an array of international correspondents feeding into the service to offer a better picture of the global situation. In the abstract for his talk, Ian hinted at the possibility of recruiting a few audience members to assist in the ongoing development of Comics Forum. Having been present at his talk, I would suggest he was successful in his aim – as I offered to take on the role of news editor, won over by this ambitious project. And so the Comics Forum News Review was born! Since June, we have been busy fine-tuning the logistics of this service, so allow me to divulge in how this idea is close to becoming a functioning service, and hopefully illustrate how this service may benefit the comic scholar community.

Having come up with the idea to create this international news service, it was time to sit down with Ian and sort through the logistics of how this service will work – what content we thought would be most important to appear in the News Review, and also the simplest format to present the monthly report. Link style reportage seems like the most feasible way of presenting a news story (a short summary sentence with the link to the news story). News will be organised into regions (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania), and then into countries within each region. Under each country we will present articles under a range of section headings (Business, Culture, Education, Jobs, Law & Politics, Obituaries, Research, and Technology). With this format we hope to provide an easy to use service that anyone in the scholar community can access, flicking through the entire month’s report to look at things most relevant to them, be it country or category of news.

The next course of action was soliciting our global correspondence team – of course this service would be nothing without a solid line up of correspondents with their finger on the pulse of all things comics scholarship. Our line up currently includes Andy Mason (contributing for South Africa); Bart Beaty (Canada); Hannah Means-Shannon (USA); Greice Schneider (Brazil); Cheng Tju (Singapore); Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto (Japan); Lisa Tannahill (France); Lida Tsene (Greece); Shelley Culbertson (Ireland); Pedro Moura (Portugal); Mihaela Precup (Romania); Rikke Platz Cortsen (Scandinavia) and Asta Vrečko (Slovenia). (Be sure to check out the Comics Forum Who’s Who section for full correspondent bios!) As you can see, we still have gaps in our team, and we are looking to recruit more correspondents from around the globe. If you feel you are up for the job in your region/country of specialty, or know someone who might be, be sure you get in touch!

The News Review will be published on the 4th day of every month. We are almost ready to launch, and the inaugural Comics Forum News Review will be published on 4th November. This report will cover the month of October, so be sure to pen that date into your calendar, and check back with us!

This service is a work in progress, and the assistance from our community is crucial. All comments, constructive criticisms, and suggestions are welcome in improving our service. Likewise, while we have a solid starting line up of correspondents, we are missing some key countries, and would be really pleased to hear from you with your suggestions. If you would be interested in getting involved with the News Review, please contact me at the Comics Forum News Review email address: comicsforum.newsreview@gmail.com. We hope you will get involved, and check back with us on the 4th November! I will be present at Comics Forum’s fourth installment this year at Leeds (15th and 16th of November), and hope to see some of you there, so come and say hello.

William Grady is about to begin his PhD in the faculty of Humanities at the University of Dundee, focusing on women in American West comic books of the Cold War era. He has articles on American West comic books both printed and forthcoming in the anthologies Comic Books and American Cultural History, and Undead in the West II, alongside forthcoming pieces in the journals Studies in Comics, and the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. He is currently a teaching assistant in the department of Film and Media at Manchester Metropolitan University.

 
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Posted by on 2012/10/31 in Comics Forum 2012, General, News, News Review, Scholarly Resources

 

Some thoughts on an Emerging Field: Connections, Transitions and Looking Ahead by Nina Mickwitz

29 Oct

Over the past three years the Transitions symposium at Birkbeck College has established a presence in the annual events calendar of UK Comics Studies. For an excellent description of how this came to be, the rationale behind the event and of the collaborative DIY-ethos that continues to characterise Transitions I’d like to refer you to ‘The indisciplined middle space’ by Tony Venezia. What Tony wrote a year ago is as relevant now as it was then.

The organisation of this year’s event has been a team effort involving a small group of PhD students at both Birkbeck and the University of East Anglia. Our aim has been to provide a continuation of Transitions, and to maintain the attitude and character of what originated as Tony’s brainchild. We hope that the diverse and promising programme of papers will offer the opportunity to trace some of the current directions as indicated by new research, with the proviso that this selection should be seen as loosely indicative rather than necessarily representative. This year’s keynote, by Chris Murray and Julia Round, will provide insights into the current challenges and opportunities of teaching and researching comics in the academic context. In addition, a roundtable discussion will provide a chance to reflect on the shared scholarly context we inhabit, as constituted by networks of practices and initiatives.

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Posted by on 2012/10/29 in Guest Writers, Scholarly Resources

 

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