Americas
Mexico
Culture
The office of the Mexican Secretary for Culture seeks applications for the Premio Nacional de Novela Gráfica Joven, part of the Tierra Adentro literary prizes. Link (FGG, Spanish)
On the 80th anniversary of the first appearance of Germán Butze’s Los Supersabios, a compilation of the classic comic curated and with texts by Luis Gantús was published by Editorial Conque. Link (01/12/16, FGG, Spanish)
The 9th edition of the independent comics gathering FANZINORAMA, took place in Tlalpan, Mexico City, from the 2nd to the 3rd December. Link (FGG, Spanish)
The 15th International Encounter on Cartooning and Comics (EICH) took place during the Guadalajara International Book Fair. Within this event, La Catrina prize was awarded to Cuban-born Mexican cartoonist Boligán. Boligan’s work is featured in the exhibit “Metáforas de un Trazo,” on view at Ex Convento del Carmen in Jalisco until January 8th, 2017. Link 1 (24/11/16, FGG, Spanish) Link 2 (03/12/16, FGG, Spanish) Link 3 (03/12/16, FGG, Spanish)
The Museo de la Caricatura y la Historieta (Mucahi) celebrated its 16th anniversary with a roundtable of comics creators at the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City. Link (05/12/16, FGG, Spanish)
The first Gabriel Vargas Cartoon Recognition was offered to master cartoonist Rius at the Museo del Estanquillo in Mexico City on Dec. 7. Link (07/12/16, FGG, Spanish)
An exhibit honoring the memory of recently-deceased master cartoonist Rogelio Naranjo was inaugurated at the Zócalo metro station in Mexico City. Link (10/12/16, FGG, Spanish)
The roundtable “Periodismo en historieta,” featuring graphic novel creators Augusto Mora (A dónde nos llevan), Andalusia Knoll Soloff and Xavier Corro (Vivos se los llevaron), and Octavio Jiménez (Me estaban entrenando como un pinche sicario), took place on December 11 as part of the Brigada Para Leer en Libertad’s Book Fair at La Alameda. Link (FGG, 13/12/16, Spanish)
The exhibit SIN PALABRAS, featuring work by Cuban-born Mexican cartoonist Boligan, and Spanish cartoonist “El Roto,” closed on December 11 at the Castillo de Santa Catalina de Cádiz, and will be on view in La Casa de la Provincia in Seville, Spain, until January 15th. Link (16/12/16, FGG, Spanish)
The two-volume graphic novel, Che: Una vida revolucionaria, by Mexican cartoonist José Hernández and U.S. journalist Jon Lee, was presented at the Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro on December 10th. Link (19/12/16, FGG, Spanish)
Education
Mexican cartoonist Cintia Bolio lead the workshop “Viñetas y perspectivas de género” at the Museo de la Mujer as part of a campaign for 16 days of activism against gender violence. Link (2/12/16, FGG, Spanish)
The course “Diplomado en Novela Gráfica,” which will take place at the Antigua Academia de San Carlos starting in February, has been announced. Link (FGG, Spanish)
United States
Research
Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page, by Blair Davis, has been published through Rutgers University Press. Link (English, WG)
The new books series, Humor in America, at Penn State University Press, is accepting proposals on studies in comics (amongst other things). Link (English, WG)
Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era, by Drew Morton, has been published through University Press of Mississippi. Link (English, WG)
There is a call for papers for the 2017 Comics & Medicine Conference, which takes place in the Seattle Public Library Central Branch and the University of Washington, between the 15th and 17th June 2017. Deadline for proposals is the 30th January. Link (English, WG)
Europe
France
Culture
Gotlib (Marcel Gottlieb), key figure in modern bande dessinée, founder of Fluide Glacial and creator of Superdupont and Gai-Luron amongst others, is dead at 82. Link (05/12/2016, LT, French)
Germany
Culture
Charlie Hebdo launched a German edition. Link (01/12/2016, MdlI, German)
The Düsseldorfer Comic und Manga Convention took place on the 11th December; guests included Kristina Gehrmann and Alexandra Völker. Link (02/12/2016, MdlI, German)
The ‘Rudolph-Dirks-Award’ has been awarded for the first time at German Comic Con in Dortmund; winners include Tobi Dahmen and Flix. Link (03/12/2016, MdlI, German)
New exhibitions on ‘biodiversity in Duckburg’ and beer in cartoons are shown in Schwarzenbach until the 8th January 2017 and 28th February 2017, respectively. Link (MdlI, German)
The exhibition on the Czech comic Alois Nebel has travelled on to Lauf an der Pegnitz where it is shown until the 5th March 2017. Link (07/12/2016, MdlI, German)
A series of talks and workshops on violence and war in comics from the 3rd December 2016 until the 9th March 2017 accompanies the exhibition in Minden. Link (12/12/2016, MdlI, German)
Research
A students’ conference on the bodies of superheroes is going to take place in Siegen on the 21st January 2017. Link (22/12/2016, MdlI, German)
Hungary
Culture
Hungarocomix 2016 took place on 10 December. This year the one-day celebration of Hungarian comics teamed up with animation movie creators and also featured an exhibition about recent comics made for educational purposes. Link (31/12/2016, ES, Hungarian)
Portugal
Culture
Until the 5th February, the association Chili con Carne is accepting original comic strips to its contest ‘Toma lá 500 paus e faz uma BD” (Take 500 euros and make a comic strip). The prize is the publication of the comic strip and 500 euros. Link (RR, Portuguese)
Spain
Culture
The Spanish artist Purita Campos has received the 2016 Honorary Prize given by the Colectivo de Autoras de Cómic (Spanish Female Authors Collective). Link (30/12/2016, EdRC, Spanish)
Carlos Giménez has written a new album of his famous series Paracuellos. Link (06/12/2016, EdRC, Spanish)
Industry
The website Mangaland has released statistics about manga publishing in Spain in 2016. Link (29/12/2016, EdRC, Spanish)
Research
A new research network, PACE (Plataforma Académica sobre el Cómic en Español), has been created to support and give visibility to academic research on Spanish comics. It is an initiative of the Centre de Recherche sur les littératures et la sociopoétique (CELIS) from the Université Clermont Auvergne (France) and the Asociación Cultural Tebeosfera (Spain). Link (01/12/2016, EdRC, Spanish)
The book Cómics: manual de instrucciones (Comics: instructions manual), by Antoni Guiral, Jesús Redondo, Pepe Gálvez and Roberto Bergado, has been published by Astiberri. Link (22/12/2016, EdRC, Spanish)
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, EdRC, English)
Switzerland
Culture
An exhibition on Zep and Titeuf is shown in Basel until the 23rd April 2017. Link (07/12/2016, MdlI, German)
UK
Education
There are PhD studentships available in Cultural Legal Studies at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, specifying studies on comics (amongst other things). The deadline for applications is the 26th February. Link (English, WG)
The School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University is offering PhD studentships for research projects in comics studies (amongst other things). The deadline for applications is the 12th January. Link (English, WG)
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