Americas

Canada

Research

The new issue of Transcultural on “Comics and Translation” has now been published. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for papers for the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Annual Conference 2017.The conference will take place in Toronto on 11th and 12th May. 200-word abstracts are due by the 6th January 2017. Link (English, WG)

Mexico

Culture

Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1, features a story located in Mexico City created by a Mexican team including art by Francisco Herrera, script by Humberto Ramos and Edgar Clément, and color by Fernanda Rizo. Link (24/11/16, FGG, English).

Marvel’s Spider Man and Champions cartoonist Humberto Ramos vowed to abstain from attending comics events in places where Donald Trump won the US presidential election. Link (14/11/16, FGG, Spanish).

Cuban-born cartoonists Boligan, a resident of Mexico since 1992, joined renowned cartoonists Chappatte, Hani Abbas and Gado in Geneva on November 24th as part of “Drawing the line,” a joint project by the UN Human Rights Office, and the Canton and the City of Geneva to tackle discrimination and promote the rights of minorities through cartooning. Link (22/11/16, FGG, English).

US-Mexican cartoonist Felipe Galindo (Feggo) received a “Success Award” at the XXXIII Aydin Doğan Cartoon Competition in Istanbul for his multi-awarded Polar Pandas. Galindo’s work is also included in the PAPER HOTSHOTS exhibition, organized by EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, featuring the work of 30 contemporary artists working in, or influenced by, the traditions of comics, illustration or graphic novels. Link 1 (FGG, English) Link 2 (14/11/16, FGG, English).

The Museo de la Caricatura in Mexico City held the exhibit “Trump: un muro de caricaturas,” featuring cartoons from around the world about Donald Trump. Link (11/11/16, FGG, English)

Mexican cartoonist Cintia Bolio was invited by CNN to be part of a cartoons special about the US presidential election: “Drawing the drama: Cartoonists from around the world on Trump’s defeat of Clinton.” Bolio was also among 60 international artists invited to participate in the 14th Edition of the Festival Internazionale di Humor Grafico, in Italy, an exhibit dedicated to fight gender-based violence. Link (10/11/16, FGG, English)

Paco Roca, Silvia Prada, and Ricardo Cavolo are among the Spanish artists included in the exhibit “Ilustradores españoles: el color del optimismo” inaugurated at the CCEMx. Link (FGG, Spanish)

Obituaries

Master cartoonist Rogelio Naranjo has died at the age of 78. A major force in Mexican political cartoons and considered by many to be among the best, Naranjo was a virtuoso of the line and irony, and an important influence to new generations of cartoonists. His work appeared for over four decades in publications such as La Garrapata, La Cultura en México, Excélsior, El Universal, and Proceso. Before his death, Naranjo donated more than 10,000 of his cartoons to the Mexican National University (UNAM). Link (11/11/16, FGG, Spanish)

United States

Culture

March: Book 3, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, has won this year’s National Book Award for Young Persons Literature. Link (16/11/2016, English, WG)

Education

The Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, administered by the Library of Congress, is accepting applications for its graduate fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. The deadline for applications is the 24th February 2017. Link (English, WG)

Jobs

The department of English at the University of Florida invites applications for a full-time nine-month tenure-track position for Assistant Professor in Visual Rhetoric to begin Fall 2017. It specifies a candidate with expertise in image/text theory, the graphic novel, and sequential arts. Link (English, WG)

Research

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting submissions for our meeting at the San Diego Comic-Con. Proposals are due by the 17th February. Link (English, WG)

James Sturm and Charles Hatfield have been confirmed as keynote speakers for the 2017 Michigan State University Comics Forum. Conference organisers are accepting proposals for the conference until the 20th December. Link (English, WG)

Europe

Austria

Culture

Vienna Comic Con took place on the 19th and 20th November; guests included Inga Steinmetz and Melanie Schober. Link (18/11/2016, MdlI, German)

Belgium

Business

Original artwork for the Tintin album, Explorers on the Moon, has sold at auction for a record 1.55 euros. Link (19/11/2016, LT, English)

Culture

Flemish cartoonist Marc Sleen has died aged 93. Link (07/11/2016, LT, English)

Germany

Business

Joachim Kaps has stepped down as head of Tokyopop Germany. Link (18/11/2016, MdlI, German)

Culture

The Berlin-based chain of comic shops, Modern Graphics, turns 25. Link (10/11/2016. MdlI, German)

An exhibition on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in Mosaik is shown in Leipzig until the 2nd April 2017. Link (MdlI, German)

The exhibition, “Fakten und Fiktionen – KriegsFamilienGeschichten im Comic”, will be shown in Minden from the 3rd December 2016 until the 12th March 2017. Link (MdlI, German)

Research

A summer school on Transnational Graphic Narratives is going to take place in Siegen from the 31st July – 5th August 2017; the deadline for applications is the 20th February 2017. Link (27/11/2016, MdlI, German)

Portugal

Culture

Between the 8th and 11th December, Comic Con will take place in Portugal at the Exponor in Matoshinos. Link (RR, Portuguese)

Spain

Culture

The legacy of legendary cartoonist Chummy Chúmez has been donated to the Spanish National Library by his son. Link (08/11/2016, MdRC, Spanish)

The exhibition BDG70: a revolta do cómic galego, an exhibition about Galician comics of the 70s, can be visited at NORMAL Espazo de intervención cultural (A Coruña) until the 31st December 2016. Link (01/11/2016, MdRC, Galician)

Obituaries

Valencian comic artist Juan Enrique Bosch Quevedo (Micharmut) has passed away. Link (29/11/2016, MdRC, Spanish)

Research

There is a CFP for the International Congress of Comic Interdisciplinary Studies, which will be celebrated at the University of Zaragoza on the 5th and 6th April 2017. Proposals are admitted (both in Spanish and English) until the 9th January 2017. Link (29/11/2016, MdRC, English)

Switzerland

Obituaries

Christophe Badoux died on the 28th October aged 52. Link (MdlI, German)

UK

Culture

The exhibition, Marie Duval: Laughter in the First Age of Leisure, runs from 9th December to 17th March 2017 at Guildhall Library. Link (English, WG)

Education

There is a call for PhD applications in American Visual Culture at the University of East Anglia (the School of Art, Media and American Studies is supportive of comics research). The deadline for applications is 11th January 2017. Link (English, WG)

The University of Dundee is accepting applications for funded PhD opportunities in Comics Studies. The deadline for applications is 12th January 2017. Link (English, WG)

Jobs

Titan Comics is seeking a Comics Editor. The closing date for applications is the 16th December. Link (English, WG)

University of Worcester seeks sessional Lecturers in Illustration. They are specifically interested in applicants with a specialism in comics. The deadline for applicants is the 8th January 2017. Link (English, WG)

Research

European Comic Art 9.2 has been published recently – a special issue focusing upon Comics and Fine Art. Link (English, WG)

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Mexico

Culture

“La Mole Comic Con” celebrated its 20th anniversary at Mexico City’s World Trade Center. Guests included José Luis García-López (Batman vs The Incredible Hulk, Superman vs Wonder Woman) and illustrators Chip Zdarsky (Sex Criminals), Wes Craig (Deadly Academy), and Whilce Portacio (Image Comics co-founder). Link (FGG, Spanish)

The book, Corrupcionario Mexicano, which includes work by comics artists Ricardo Cucamonga, Gonzalo Rocha, Patricio Monero, Cintia Bolio, and Helio Flores, among others, has been published by Grijalbo. Link (FGG, Spanish)

The book, Cácaro, la época de Oro del Cine Mexicano en Monos, by Juan Manuel Aurrecochea, with ilustrations by cartoonists Magú, Luis Fernando, Hernández, and Rocha, has been published through Resistencia. Link (FGG, Spanish)

The magazine Conque began publication in connection with the homonymous comics convention taking place in Querétaro between the 5th and 7th May 2017. Renowned Edgar Clément (Operación Bolívar) is editor, and his contribution stands along those by Bachan, Luis Gantús, Jis, Adalisa Zárate, Patricio Betteo, among others. Link (FGG, Spanish)

After the 2nd anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from a teachers’ college in Ayotzinapa, Mexico on the 26th September 2014, the Museo Casa De La Memoria Indómita held an event with the authors of the forthcoming bilingual graphic novel Alive You Took Them-Vivos Se Los Llevaron and parents of Ayotzinapa. Also, the “Tribute to the Disappeared” exhibit, featuring images from over 300 international artists and collectives, including comics artists, opened at Marshall University’s Birke Art Gallery to memorialize the disappearance of the 43 students, as well as the more than 26,000 women and men who have disappeared in Mexico since 2006. Link (FGG, English)

The exhibition “Trazos de libertad”, organized by Cartooning for Peace and Cartón Club to highlight the role of the press and freedom of expression, featured European and Latin American cartoon artists. The traveling exhibit and related events were held throughout October at Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Casa de Francia, and Le cinéma IFAL in Mexico City. Link (FGG, Spanish)

The documentary, Novaro, el coloso mexicano, on the largest 20th century comics publishing house in Latin America, has been pre-released. It was produced by K3 Films and directed by Andrés Pardo Piccone and Santiago Cassarino. Link (FGG, Spanish)

Research

The course, Viñetas y prevención de la violencia, dealing with the role of comics in the prevention of violence against women and femicide, was taught by cartoonist Cintia Bolio at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City. Link (FGG, Spanish)

United States

Education

A comics studies minor is being introduced next year at San Francisco State University. Link (English, WG)

Research

There is a call for papers for the panel, Comics, Graphic Novels, and the Environment, which will be held at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment’s 2017 conference in Detroit (20^th-24^th June 2017). Abstracts are due by the 25^th November. Link (02/10/2016, English WG)

There is a call for papers for the 14th UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, “Comics Remixed: Adaptation and Graphic Narrative”, which will be held from the 7^th to the 9^th April 2017. Submissions are due by the 1^st December. Link (English, WG)

Asia

Japan

Education

Keio Universität has started a free online course, “An Introduction to Japanese Subcultures”, including manga, on the website Future Learn. Link (JBS, English)

Culture

Kyoto International Manga Museum is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a series of exhibitions and events, “The 10th Anniversary Project”. On the 13th November, the museum´s executive director, Yoro Takeshi, will hold a talk with his long time friend, animation director Miyazaki Hayao (this event is held in Japanese). Link (JBS, English)

Kyoto International Manga Museum is holding the “Superb! Scary! Tani Yukiko” Exhibition. The exhibition opened on the 27th October and runs until the 31st January 2017. Link (JBS, English)

Europe

Belgium

Culture

Belgian comic strip series Thorgal (Van Hamme and Rosinski) is being adapted as a live action TV series that will be similar to Game of Thrones. Link (JBS, 26/10/2016, Dutch)

Research

Various Belgian universities are contributing to an inter-university seminar in comics studies which will take place throughout 2016-7. Link (14/10/2016, BC, French)

France

Culture

Independent comics publisher Ego comme X officially announced that it has closed. Link 1 (25/10/2016, BC, French) Link 2 (27/10/2016, LT, French)

Bécassine, the first bande dessinée heroine, is being resurrected in a new BD album and a forthcoming film. Link (10/10/2016, LT, French)

Germany

Culture

German Comic Con Berlin took place on the 15th and 16th October; guests included Don Rosa and Nana Yaa Kyere. Link (29/09/2016, MdlI, German)

Frankfurt Book Fair ran from the 19th – 23rd October; guests from the comic industry included Joost Swarte. Link (06/10/2016, MdlI, German)

A Fix und Foxi exhibition is going to be shown in Hannover from the 12th November 2016 until the 26th March 2017. Link (MdlI, German)

This year’s German Children’s Literature Award in the non-fiction category goes to Im Eisland by Kristina Gehrmann. Link (MdlI, German)

Research

The winter semester of the lecture series, Berliner Comic-Kolloquium, began on the 12th October 2016 and runs until the 15th February 2017. Link (29/09/2016, MdlI, German)

The German Society for Comics Studies has published an overview of German university classes on comics in this winter semester. Link (10/10/2016, MdlI, German)

A lecture series on comics and film is given in Kiel from the 25th October 2016 until the 7th February 2017. Link (12/10/2016, MdlI, German)

The Roland Faelske award for comics and animation 2016 goes to Johannes C. P. Schmid for his master’s thesis, “Shooting Pictures, Drawing Blood. The Photographic Image in the Graphic War Memoir”, and to Christian A. Bachmann for his dissertation, “Metamedialität und Materialität im Comic. Zeitungscomic – Comichefte – Comicbuch”. Link (MdlI, German)

A workshop on self-reflexivity in comics is going to take place in Cologne on the 2nd and 3rd March 2017; deadline for abstracts is the 8th January. Link (20/10/2016, MdlI, German)

A lecture series on comics takes place in Hamburg from the 27th October. Link (24/10/2016, MdlI, German)

The preliminary program for the conference, “The Empirical Study of Comics”, in Bremen from the 7th – 9th February 2017 has been published. Link (27/10/2016, MdlI, English)

Portugal

Culture

The AmadoraBD Festival is taking place in the Forum Luís de Camões in Amadora until the 6th November. The festival includes book launches, exhibitions, and other activities related to comics. Link (23/09/2016, RR, Portuguese)

The exhibition, Ferozes Transparências (Ferocious Transparencies)” is taking place in the Bedeteca of Amadora until the 10th December featuring a collection of underground commix collected by Glenn Bray and is under the curatorship of Pedro Moura. Entrance is free. Link (10/10/2016, RR, Portuguese)

Spain

Business

The publishing house, Malpaso, has bought 70% of the publishing house Dibbuks. Link (11/09/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

There will be a new Torpedo album published in 2017 which will be illustrated by Eduardo Risso. Link (27/09/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Culture

Pablo Auladell’s El Paraíso perdido, a graphic adaptation of Milton’s Paradise Lost, has been awarded 2016 National Comics Prize. Auladell’s work was also published in English earlier this year. Link (28/10/2016, EdRC, Spanish/English)

The exhibition “Animal Collective”, a panoramic vision of contemporary and avant-garde European comics, can be visited at Centro Centro in Madrid until the 29th January 2017. Link (01/10/2016)

UK

Culture

The Dundee Comics Prize is accepting comics submissions for the award inspired by the science fiction stories of H.G. Wells. The deadline is the 13^th November. Link (English, WG)

The new exhibition at Woking’s The Lightbox gallery, The Story of British Comics So Far: Cor! By Gum! Zarjaz!, runs until the 31^st December. Link (English, WG)

Research

The University of Brighton’s third annual Graphic Brighton symposium will take place on the 9^th and 10^th December. This year’s theme is Conflict and Resolution. Link (English, WG)

The Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes Dessinées and Comics 2017 will take place across the University of Dundee and the University of Glasgow between the 26th and 30th June 2017. The theme is Borders: Identity, Difference and Representation, and proposals are due by the 1^st January 2017. Link (English, WG)

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Correspondents: Enrique del Rey Cabero (EdRC, Spain), Benoît Crucifix (BC, Belgium and France), Felipe Gómez Gutiérrez (FGG, Mexico), William Grady (WG, United States and UK), Martin de la Iglesia (MdlI, Germany), Renatta Rafaela (RR, Portugal), Jessica Bauwens Sugimoto (JBS, Belgium and Japan), and Lise Tannahill (LT, France).

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Americas

United States

Research

There is a call for contributions to the proposed collection, The Dark Side: A Supervillain Reader, edited by Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner. Reprinted submissions and abstract proposals for new material are due by the 15th October. Link (English, WG)

Miller’s Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism, by Paul Young, has been published through Rutgers University Press. Link (English, WG)

The Routledge Companion to Comics, edited by Frank Bramlett, Roy T Cook, and Aaron Meskin, has been published through Routledge. Link (English, WG)

Forging the Past: Seth and the Art of Memory, by Daniel Marrone, has been published through the University Press of Mississippi. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for papers for the proposed volume, Drawing out the Shadows: Responses to the Holocaust in Graphic Narratives. Abstracts are due by the 17th October. Link (25/08/2016, English, WG)

Columbia University Libraries’ Rare Book & Manuscript Library has acquired the personal archives of cartoonist Howard Cruse. Link (30/08/2016, English, WG)

The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are not so Clear, edited by Joe Sutliff Sanders, has been published through the University Press of Mississippi. Link (English, WG)

Asia

Japan

Culture

The Ghibli Museum is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a special exhibition titled “All Aboard! The Cat Bus to the Ghibli Forest”. The exhibition runs until May of 2017, and offers a look back at older exhibitions, as well as new exhibits. Link (English, JBS)

There will be an exhibition related to the yearly Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair at Kyoto International Manga Museum titled “DAGASHIKASHI Exhibition – Kyoto store” (a series from manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump). From the 17th September until the 16th October. Link (English, JBS)

Europe

Belgium

Culture

Guy Dessicy, co-founder of the Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée and Hergé colourist, has died aged 92. Link (30/07/2016, French, LT)

Germany

Culture

The 6th Graphic Novel Day is going to take place in Berlin on the 11th September; guests include Marc-Antoine Mathieu and Barbara Yelin. Link (01/08/2016, German, MdlI)

The exhibition, “Holocaust im Comic”, travels on to Cologne where it is shown from the 5th November until the 18th December, accompanied by talks on the 5th, 12th, and 25th November. Link (04/08/2016, German, MdlI)

An exhibition of the latest Max-und-Moritz-Preis winners is going to be shown at the Wilhelm Busch Geburtshaus Wiedensahl from the 4th September 2016 until the 28th May 2017. Link (25/08/2016, German, MdlI)

An exhibition of comics from Kenya is going to be shown in Bremen from the 7th September until the 8th October. Link (29/08/2016, German, MdlI)

Obituary

Lothar Dräger (Mosaik) died on the 9th July. Link (18/08/2016, German, 18/08/2016)

Research

The 10.000th record has been entered into the Bonn Online Bibliography for Comics Research. Link (15/08/2016, German, MdlI)

The proceedings of the workshop, “The Mediality and Materiality of Contemporary Comics”, which took place in Tübingen last year, have been published as a special issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. Link (22/08/2016, German, MdlI)

Portugal

Culture

From the 28th August until the 11th September the Pavilhão Multiusos of the São Mateus Fair in Viseu will host the exhibition “Infante Dom Henrique na Banda Desenhada” (Dom Henrique in Comics). Entrance is free. Link (17/08/2016, Portuguese, RR)

Spain

Culture

Fantagraphics has published an anthology of contemporary Spanish comics authors called Spanish Fever. Stories by the New Spanish Cartoonists. Five of the authors included in the anthology (Santiago García, Ana Galvañ, David Rubín, Javier Olivares and José Domingo) will also be present at Small Press Expo (SPX), which will be celebrated at Bethesda (Maryland) from the 17th to the 18th September. Link (08/08/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Spanish-Turkish cartoonist Dogan Güzel was arrested (and later released) among 22 other journalist from the Istanbul-based newspaper Özgür Gündem. Link (17/08/2016, English, EdRC)

Obituary

Víctor Mora, Spanish comic author and creator of many legendary Spanish comics classics (including Capitán Trueno and El Jabato), has passed away. Link (17/07/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

UK

Research

European Comic Art 9.1 has been published by Berghahn Journals. Link (English, WG)

The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 7.3, a special issue on Mediality and Materiality of Contemporary Comics edited by Jan-Noël Thon & Lukas R.A. Wilde, has been published. Link (English, WG)

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Correspondents: Enrique del Rey Cabero (EdRC, Spain), William Grady (WG, United States and UK), Martin de la Iglesia (MdlI, Germany), Lise Tannahill (LT, Belgium), Renatta Rafaella (RR, Portugal) and Jessica Bauwens Sugimoto (JBS, Japan).

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Americas

Canada

Culture

Pierre Huard’s thesis La parodie dans la bande dessinée franco-belge: Critique ou esthétisme? was posthumously published through the Presses de l’Université du Québec. Link (27/07/2016, French, BC)

USA

Culture

The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings, won the Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work. Link (English, WG)

The Comic Book Education Foundation (CBEF), a non-profit organisation promoting comics in the classroom to improve literacy, is hosting an event in Denver Colorado between the 7th and 9th October called the iCons Experience. It boasts Lectures, Roundtable Discussions, Critiques, and Networking Opportunities with over a dozen professionals from the comics industry. However, the website is still under construction. Link 1 (English, WG), Link 2 (English, WG)

Obituary

Richard Thompson, cartoonist for the comic strip Cul de Sac, has passed away at the age of 58. Link (27/07/2016, English, WG)

Jack Davis, a cartoonist perhaps best known for his work for EC Comics and Mad Magazine, passed away on the 27th July, aged 91. Link (28/07/2016, English, WG)

Research

There is a call for paper for the conference panel, Comics of the Margins: Visions from the Periphery in World Graphic Narratives, which takes place NeMLA’s annual convention in Baltimore between the 23rd and 26th March 2017. Abstracts are due by the 30th September 2016. Link (English, WG)

The call for submissions to the journal, Mechademia 2.0: Second Arc, has been extended to the 5th August. The theme for this issue is on “Childhood”. Link (08/07/2016, English, WG)

There is a call for papers for the collection, Comics and Medical Controversies. Submissions are due by the 31st October. Link (11/07/2016, English, WG)

From Daniel Boone to Captain America: Playing Indian in American Popular Culture, by Chad A. Barbour, has been published through the University Press of Mississippi. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for comics for the collection, Graphic Truths: The Making (and Unmaking) of a Doctor, to be published by Penn State University Press. Submissions are due by the 31st December. Link (English, WG)

Europe

Belgium

Obituary

Comics colorist Nine Culliford has passed away. She was the wife of Smurfs creator, Peyo. Link (05/07/2016, French, BC)

Research

Greice Schneider’s monograph What Happens When Nothing Happens: Boredom and Everyday Life in Contemporary Comics was published through Leuven University Press in their “Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels” series. Link (15/07/2016, French, BC)

France

Culture

Jacques Tardi has been admitted to the Will Eisner Hall of Fame at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con. Link (25/07/2016, French, LT)

Obituary

Didier Savard, creator of the Dick Hérisson series published by Darguad, has died aged 65. Link (06/07/2016, French, LT)

Germany

Culture

This year’s Animagic convention took place in Bonn from the 29th until the 31st July; guests included Takaya Kagami and Yamato Yamamoto. Link (German, MdlI)

An exhibition on comics in the GDR will be shown in Gera from the 6th August 2016 until the 19th February 2017. Link (28/07/2016, German, MdlI)

Research

A conference on superheroes and supervillains will take place in Berlin on the 22nd and 23rd September. Link (18/07/2016, German, MdlI)

The most widespread German library classification, Regensburger Verbundklassifikation (RVK), has been updated to incorporate comics and comics research. Link (25/07/2016, German, MdlI)

Portugal

Culture

The second book fair of independent illustration and comics in Lourinhã will take place from the 23rd July until the 6th August at the the OVO (Obras Visuais e Ofícios) building. Link (Portuguese, RR)

Until the 12th August, the book store El Pep is hosting a collective exhibition titled ‘Asian Graphic Documentary’. This exhibition has original works, published by Slowork Publishing, by five Asian comic artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Manila. Link (28/07/2016, Portuguese, RR)

Spain

Culture

The website Entrecomics has announced that it will cease its activities 10 years after its creation. Link (19/07/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

The Spanish journal El País has announced the creation of Ka-Bboom, a new digital space dedicated to comics. Link (18/05/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Obituary

Paco Camarasa, editor and founder of Ediciones de Ponent, has passed away. Link (11/07/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Research

A new number of the free academic journal Cuadernos de Cómic is available on-line to download. Link (01/07/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Switzerland

Culture

An Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb exhibition is being shown in Basel until the 13th November. Link (05/07/2016, German, MdlI)

Research

A series of video interviews with comic creators has been published by Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Link (English, MdlI)

UK

Jobs

There is a job listing that seeks a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Comics, Graphic Novels and Sequential Arts at Teesside University. The application deadline is the 10th August. Link (English, WG)

Research

Jillian Fleck reports on the Graphic Medicine 2016 Conference: Stages & Pages, held at the University of Dundee in early July. Link (29/07/2016, English, WG)

The Comics Grid has published its special collection, “Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics”. Link (English, WG)

A new research network about comics and graphic novels has been set up by The Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities (University of Oxford) called Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form. Link (11/07/2016, English, WG)

There is a call for papers for the conference, TRANSITIONS – New Directions in Comics Studies, which takes place at Birkbeck College, London, on the 19th November. Abstracts are due by the 26th August. Link (English, WG)

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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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