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News Review May 2016

04 Jun

Asia

Japan

Culture

The Eguchi Hisashi Pop Art Exhibition: King of Pop, Kyoto Edition, starts on the 11th June and will run until the 4th September at the Kyoto International Manga Museum. Link  (English, JBS)

Law and Politics

Manga and plastic artist Rokudesnashiko (Igarashi Megumi) has partly lost the obscenity case against her (“partly innocent” verdict), and has been fined 400,000 Japanese Yen for a 3D reproduction and digital file distribution of her vagina. She will appeal the verdict. Link (09/05/2016, English, JBS)

Research

An international symposium titled “New Directions in Manga Research” which emphasises diverse methodologies, instead of a fixed focus on the subject proper, will be held on the 18th June at the Kyoto International Manga Museum (All presentations in Japanese). Link  (Japanese, JBS)

The program for the 16th yearly conference of the Japan Society for Studies in Cartoons and Comics has been published on the JSSCC website. The conference will take place from the 25th until the 26th June at the Tokyo Polytechnic University’s Nakano Campus. Link (Japanese, JBS)

Americas

USA

Culture

The exhibition, Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen: The Art of EC Comics, will take place at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (located on the campus of the University of Oregon), and is running until the 10th July. Link (English, WG)

Obituary

Consuela Francis, a professor of English and African-American studies at the College of Charleston, has passed away. Amongst a wide array of teaching and research interests, Francis specialised in race and superhero comic books. Link 1 (09/05/2016, English, WG), Link 2 (English, WG)

Research

Sequentials, a new venture which will publish scholarship drawn in comics form, has posted its first call for comics. It asks for submissions focusing upon postmodernism in all of its possible meanings and manifestations. The deadline is 1st January 2017. Link (05/05/2016, English, WG)

Pioneering Cartoonists of Color, by Tim Jackson, has been published through University of Mississippi Press. Link (English, WG)

On the 23rd May, SANE Journal’s Facebook page published an open call for interested professionals to serve as reviewers, as well as seeking potential contributors. Link (English, WG)

Europe

France

Obituary

Veteran cartoonist Siné (Maurice Sinet), who worked for L’Express, L’Enragé, Siné Mensuel and Charlie Hebdo, amongst others, has died aged 87. Link (05/05/2016, English, LTa)

Research

The AFEA conference in Toulouse hosted on May 26 a panel on the future of comics studies, titled ‘Whither Comics Studies?’. Link (26/05/2016, English, BC)

Germany

Culture

The exhibition on Héctor Germán Oesterheld’s El Eternauta that was previously shown in Stuttgart has now travelled on to Berlin, where it will be shown until the 10th July. Link (09/05/2016, German, MdlI)

Two talks on comics were given during “Tage des Exils 2016” in Hamburg on the 31st May and 1st June. Link (16/05/2016, German, MdlI)

The exhibition, “Hokusai x Manga – Japanese Popular Culture since 1860”, will be shown in Hamburg from the 10th June until the 11th September. Link (English, MdlI)

The exhibition of Belgian independent comics that was previously shown in Rostock now travels on to Cologne, where it will be shown from the 11th June until the 2nd July. Link (23/05/2016, German, MdlI)

An exhibition of “Pioneers of the Comic Strip” will be shown in Frankfurt from the 23rd June until the 18th September. Link (English, MdlI)

“Worlds Collide – Wenn Comics verfilmt werden”, an event on comic-to-film adaptations, will take place in Mannheim from the 17th until the 19th June. Link (30/05/2016, German, MdlI)

The Max-und-Moritz-Preis was awarded at Comic-Salon Erlangen on the 27th May. Link (German, MdlI)

Research

A comics panel and workshop will take place at the annual GfM Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft conference in Berlin from the 28th September  until the 1st October. Link (05/05/2016, German, MdlI)

Hungary

Culture

The 12th International Comics Festival Budapest was held on the 8th May at Dürer Kert, Budapest. International guest artists and writers included Rutu Modan (Italy), Alessio Fortunato (Italy), Kivi Larmola and Pertti Jarla (Finland). Link (English, ES)

Portugal

Culture

Until the 12th June, the Historical centre of Beja is hosting the annual International Festival of Comics (XII Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada de Beja). This festival is composed by some exhibitions, book/magazine launches, author events, workshops and concerts. Link (28/04/2016, Portuguese, RR)

On the 27th May, the authors Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia will launch their book Os Vampiros (The Vampires), a comic book inspired in the song with the same title by the popular Portuguese Singer Zeca Afonso. The book launch took place during the International Festival of Comics in Beja. Link  (24/05/2016, Portuguese, RR)

Until the 11th June, the Bedeteca of Amadora is hosting an exhibition titled “Banda Escrita: André Oliveira – uma exposição em torno do trabalho do argumentista” (Written Strip: André Oliveira – an exhibition about the writer´s work). Admission to the event is free. Link (11/05/2016, Portuguese, RR)

Until the 7th June, the Municipality of Alvalade is hosting an exhibition about Japanese inspired pop culture with. Link (Portuguese, RR)

Romania

Culture

Bucharest hosted the fourth edition of East European Comic Con from the 27th to the 29th May. The convention included independent cartoonists and animators from the United States and Europe, as well as workshops, exhibitions, gaming and cosplay competitions. Link (29/06/2016, English, MP)

Spain

Business

The Culture Association Tebeosfera has published its annual report about the Spanish comics industry. Link (05/05/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Culture

The 34th edition of the Barcelona Comic Fair took place from the 5th to the 8th April with a historical record of attendance. Winners of the festival awards were announced, including Best National Work (El fantasma de Gaudí, by El Torres and Jesús Alonso) and Best Foreign Work (Spirou. Le Groom vert-de-gris, by Yann and Oliver Schwartz). Link (06/05/2016, English, EdRC)

In order to celebrate the biggest exhibition of works by Hieronymus Bosch, which can be visited until the 11th September, the Museo del Prado has published its first comic. Triptych of the Enchanted (a Boschian pantomime), by Max, is available in Spanish and English. Link (23/05/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Law and Politics

Mayte Quílez, director of the satirical magazine El Jueves, has been attacked at the door of her house by a hooded person, resulting in minor injuries. The magazine had just published the day before a cover denouncing the rise of the extreme right in Europe. Link (12/05/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Switzerland

Research

The IAWIS/AEI has released its call for papers, with several panels devoted to comics. Abstracts are due by the 31st August. Link (15/05/2016, English, BC)

Following a conference organised in Lausanne by the GrEBD, BD – US : les comics vus par l’ Europe, edited by Marc Atallah and Alain Boillat, has been published through Infolio. Link (19/05/2016, French, BC)

UK

Culture

Arvon are running a week-long residential graphic novel writing course with Kate Charlesworth and Leah Moore. It will take place between the 13th and 18th June. Link (English, WG)

Job

There is a job listing for a Lecturer in Illustration at Plymouth University. The advert specifies that the Faculty of Arts and Humanities are seeking a lecturer to lead and develop the curriculum in relation to comics and visual narrative. Applications are due by the 19th June. Link (English, WG)

Research

The Journal of African Cultural Studies 28.3 has recently published–a special issue on Afro-Superheroes. Link (WG, English)

Registration is now open for the 7th International Comics & Medicine Conference: Stages & Pages, which takes place at the University of Dundee between the 7th and 9th July 2016. Link (English, WG)

Registration is now open for the 7th International Conference of Graphic Novels and Comics – Graphic Gothic, which takes place at Manchester Metropolitan University between the 11th and 13th July. Link (English, WG)

Abusing Power: The Visual Politics of Satire is a conference held at Brighton Museum and Pavilion between the 23rd and 24th September 2016. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for papers for the Animation and the Comic Book Symposium, which will take place on 30th September at Canterbury Christ Church University. The deadline for abstract submissions is the 19th July. Link (English, WG)

The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 7.2 has been published. Link (English, WG)

Comics Crossroads: Training for the Study of Comics, Cartoons and Drawn Images, is a symposium that takes place on the 26th June at the University of Kent. It will host a range of speakers talking about their research, including: Dr Anne Magnussen, Professor Roger Sabin, Dr Elizabeth El Refaie, Dr Ian Horton,Dr Paul Williams, Dr Aaron Meskin, and Professor Hugo Frey. Link (English, WG)

BCCS Comics Scholarship Symposium will take place 4 June at the University of Sussex. This one-day symposium will explore the possibilities of doing scholarship in graphic form. Link (English, WG

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Correspondents: Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto (JBS, Japan), Enrique del Rey Cabero (EdRC, Spain), Benoît Crucifix (BC, Belgium, France and Switzerland), William Grady (WG, United States and UK), Martin de la Iglesia (MdlI, Germany), Michaela Precup (MP, Romania), Renatta Rafaella (RR, Portugal), Eszter Szép (ES, Hungary) and Lise Tannahill (LTa, France).

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Review: Threadbare by Anne Elizabeth Moore

16 May

Threadbare: Clothes, Sex and Trafficking by Anne Elizabeth Moore and The Ladydrawers

Microcosm Publishing. 10th May 2016. ISBN: 978-1-62106-739-9. Price: $13.95

 

Reviewed by Harriet Earle

As I write this review, I am acutely aware of my clothing. Not the items specifically as much as the fact that almost everything I’m wearing came from a high street store and cost very little. This is not something I have concerned myself with much in the past but after reading Threadbare: Clothes, Sex and Trafficking, a brilliantly constructed report on ‘the connections between the global fashion and sex trades’ I have found myself rethinking my previous stance on fashion. In this comic, Moore spotlights the complex and far-reaching relationship between these two markets to create a comic that is dense and informative without being dull or confusing. The result is a text that not only informs the reader of the relationship between fashion (especially ‘fast fashion’ – cheap, mass produced clothing that is taking the global market by storm) and the international sex and trafficking trades but also provides nuanced, personal stories from women whose lives are directly affected by the issues at hand. The combination of astute research and intensely personal artistic styles is what makes this book. This is no ordinary comic: this is a manifesto.

From the outset we are faced with some harsh truths: the world of fashion has changed drastically over the past century and is still in flux. In the US, the average woman buys 68 items of clothing per year. One in seven women worldwide is employed in the garment industry. Shop staff are paid low wages with little to no security or benefits; models are routinely encouraged to diet excessively and are often forced into situations they are not comfortable with; garment factory workers face long hours, minimal pay and all manner of horrific abuses. Threadbare is open and honest about these facts; it encourages the reader to contemplate them, not just as abstract statistics but through vignettes with individual representatives of each part of the sprawling international garments industry. Moore is not rehashing someone else’s research – this is all her own work, complete with notes and references. She directly engages with her subjects and it shows. She exists within her own comics as a guiding voice, if not visible character, through the agenda that each short strip sets up and the focussed way it plays out.

The Ladydrawers, an ‘unofficially affiliated group’ of artists that ‘researches, performs and publishes comics and texts about how economics, race, sexuality, and gender impact the comics industry, other media, and our culture at large’. Their artwork is raw and curiously coloured; the majority of the strips rely on black line work, highlighted by shades of orange, red and pink. Each artist has a distinct style and their individuality lends the particular narratives a flavour all their own. The narrating head and shoulders sketches of model Sarah Meier in ‘Model Employee’, drawn by Delia Jean, floats throughout a series of flashbacks to her own story and imagined meetings in other people’s. In contrast, Melissa Mendes’ cool and impersonal industrial landscapes illustrate the stark reality of how zoning laws are manipulated by the garment industry to keep both merchandise and labour cheap.

Threadbare is an incredibly wordy comic; though pocket-sized, the amount of information contained within requires several readings to fully digest. Moving from the USA to Austria to Cambodia and then to a world-wide view, the reader is faced with page after page of uncomfortable truths about an industry that is seemingly ubiquitous and that the vast majority of us are interacting with on numerous levels. The final short comic of the collection, ‘The Connecting Threads’, asks us to consider everything that Threadbare has already laid out, recapping statistics and offering its rallying cry: ditch the mall, advocate for a living wage in the garment industry and make a change. As difficult as this may be – fast fashion is a staple of many of our wardrobes and remains so because of its affordability and omnipresence – there is no doubt that Moore and her artistic collaborators are correct. The only way to make a difference is to take a stand. And, thanks to Threadbare, I will be doing just that.

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News Review April 2016

09 May

Asia

Japan

Culture

Musashino City Kichijoji Art Museum is holding a Hagio Moto SF Original Manga Art Exhibition until the 29th May. Link (05/03/2016, Japanese, JBS)

A book by manga artist and illustrator Rokudenashiko, who was arrested for making a reproduction of her vagina, has been translated into English. Link (English, JBS)

The exhibition, Louvre No. 9, (manga/comics as the 9th art) will be held at the Mori Arts Center Gallery in Tokyo, from the 22nd July until the 25th September (the exhibition will be held in Osaka later in the year). The exhibition will feature original art by, among many others, Enki Bilal and Shin’ichi Sakamoto. Link (Japanese, JBS)

The exhibition She and Her Cat – Everything Flows will be held at the Kyoto International Manga Museum until the 19th June. Link (English, JBS)

Americas

United States

Culture

Creators for Creators is offering up a $30,000 grant to support a single cartoonist or writer/artist duo in their creation of a new and original work of a length between sixty-four and one hundred pages over the course of a single year. The recipient will be selected by committee. Link (English, WG)

Research

The inaugural issue of The Journal of Comics and Culture has been published through Pace University Press. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for papers for an edited collection focusing upon Disability and Superheroes. 400-word abstracts and 50-word bios are due by the 30th June. Link (01/04/2016, English, WG)

Starting in October 2016, the annual Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival will include an academic symposium, hosted this year at the Ohio State University campus, and the theme will be “Canon Fodder”. 250-500 word abstracts and a two-page CV (or 250 word biographical statement) are due by the 30th June. Link (09/03/2016, English, WG)

Marvel Comics into Film: Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s, edited by Matthew J. McEniry, Robert Moses Peaslee, and Robert G. Weiner, has been published through McFarland. Link (English, WG)

There is a call for papers for the PCEA Conference, Comics and/as Rhetoric: (Anti)Static Narratives, which takes place at Indiana University of Pennsylvania between the 21st and 22nd October. Abstracts are due by the 1st June 2016. Link (18/04/2016, English, WG)

The Mythology of the Superhero, by Andrew R. Bahlmann, has been published through McFarland. Link (English, WG)

Europe

Austria

Culture

A Nadine Redlich exhibition is being shown in Vienna until the 13th July. Link (07/04/2016, German, MdlI)

Belgium

Culture

There is a call for papers for Nordic Network for Comics Research Conference hosted by Ghent University in collaboration with the University of Liège (ACME) and KU Leuven from the 20th until the 21st April in Ghent. Link (English, BC)

René Hausman, Belgian BD artist and illustrator known for his works involving animals, nature and fairytale elements, has died aged 80. Link 1 (28/04/2016, French, LTa) Link 2 (28/04/2016, English, LTa)

France

Business

Jacques Glénat, French head of the Glénat publishing company, was prominently featured in polemics around the “Panama Papers” leaks on tax evasion. Link (06/04/2016, BC, French)

Culture

The much announced Pandora magazine was published by Casterman, self-professedly announcing the (arguable) “return” of comics magazines in France. Link (13/04/02016, BC, French)

Singer and BD artist Hubert Mounier, of the band L’Affaire Louis’Trio, has died of a heart attack. He was 53. Link (05/05/2016, LTa, French)

Germany

Culture

The 5th Hamburger Graphic Novel Tage will take place from the 9th until the 12th May; guests include Steve Bell and Volker Reiche. Link (German, MdlI)

A Hamid Sulaiman exhibition was shown in Berlin from the 9th until the 18th April. Link (09/04/2016, German, MdlI)

The DoKomi anime and manga convention took place in Düsseldorf from the 30th April until the 1st May; guests included Toshio Maeda. Link (English, MdlI)

Nominations and some of the winners of this year’s Max und Moritz award have been announced. Link (25/04/2016, German, MdlI)

ComFor will host a lecture series at Comic-Salon Erlangen from the 27th until the 29th May. Link (28/04/2016, German, MdlI)

Research

The summer semester of the lecture series, Berliner Comic-Kolloquium, has begun on the 27th April and runs until the 13th July. Link (German, MdlI)

Two talks on humour and webcomics will be given in Essen on the 13th June. Link (14/04/2016, German, MdlI)

Portugal

Culture

From the 27th May until the 12th June, the Historical center of Beja will host the annual International Festival of Comics (XII Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada de Beja). The festival is comprised of exhibitions, book/magazine launches, author events, workshops and concerts amongst others. Link (28/04/2016, Portuguese, RR)

The Clube Português de Banda Desenhada will be hosting the exhibition Alexandre Herculano in Comics and Eça de Queiroz in Comics. The inauguration took place on the 30th April. Entrance is free and can be visited on Saturdays, from 4pm till 7pm, until the end of May. Link (Portuguese, RR)

Romania

Culture

Sibiu hosted the fourth International Sibiu Comic Con from the 15th to the 17th April. The convention showcased the work of independent Romanian cartoonists, as well as comic book artists from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria and France. Link (15/04/2016, Romanian, MP)

The Cervantes Institute of Bucharest launched an exhibition of comics and illustration related to the life and work of Spanish author Miguel Cervantes, 400 years after his death. The exhibition consists of works by Spanish artists David Rubin and Miguelanxo Prado and runs until the 30th June. Link 1 (Romanian, MP) Link 2 (Spanish, MP)

Spain

Business

Cuadernos de Cómic, a free Spanish research journal about comics, has started a crowdfunding campaign through Verkami in order to maintain its publication rhythm and free-of-charge philosophy. Link (27/04/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Culture

The 34th edition of the Barcelona Comic Fair will take place from the 5th to the 8th April. Among its confirmed international guests are Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, Cyril Pedrosa and Zerocalcare. There will also be various exhibitions on topics such as females superheroes, social graphic novels and a retrospective of the work of Ibáñez. Link (15/04/2016, English, EdRC)

The AACE (Spanish Association of Comics Authors) has announced the winners of its annual prizes. Link (15/04/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Research

El guión de cómic, a book coordinated by Gerardo Vilches that includes interviews with five Spanish comic scriptwriters, will be published in May by Diminuta Ediciones. Link (12/03/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Switzerland

Culture

The winners of the 2016 Fumetto competition have been announced. Link (18/04/2016, German, MdlI)

UK

Culture

The exhibition, Comic Invention, takes place at the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, between the 18th March and 17th July. Link (English, WG)

The Great British Graphic Novel, an exhibition looking at the rise of the British Graphic novel, takes place at the Cartoon Museum, London, between the 20th April and 24th July. Link 1 (English, WG), Link 2 (21/04/2016, English, WG)

Education

There are funded places available for the MLitt Comic and Graphic Novels, and MDes Comic and Graphic Novels, at the University of Dundee. Link (11/04/2016, English, WG)

Jobs

The publisher 2000 AD is seeking a Junior Designer. Link (English, WG)

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Correspondents: Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto (JBS, Japan), Enrique del Rey Cabero (EdRC, Spain), Benoît Crucifix (BC, Belgium and France), William Grady (WG, United States and UK), Martin de la Iglesia (MdlI, Austria, Germany and Switzerland), Michaela Precup (MP, Romania), Renatta Rafaella (RR, Portugal), and Lise Tannahill (LTa, Belgium and France).

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The Bi-Monthly ComFor Update for April 2016

15 Apr

by Lukas R. A. Wilde

Welcome back to ComFor’s quick update on comic studies-news related to the German-speaking corners of the world. The big news, here as probably everywhere else, was arguably the first membership drive of the Comic Studies Society (CSS). We were even more excited to learn about the plans of the CSS to launch a new comic scholarship Journal in 2017 (announced aptly as the Journal of the Comics Studies Society) – fascinating times to be a comics scholar, indeed!

In Germany, the early spring was initially all about wonderful festivals and fairs: from March 10 to 20, our Austrian neighbors in Linz and Steyr celebrated their Nextcomic Festival, with an inspiring range of international guests and ambitious exhibitions. During the same time (March 12), Hamburg opened up its first Comic and Manga Convention, and Berlin became the place to be for the Comicinvasion Festival (April 16 to 17). The satellite program of the Comicinvasion kicked off more than two weeks prior to the festival, with lots of exhibitions and some highly interesting lectures and talks on comics in various venues across the city. If Berlin was too far north from wherever you are residing, there was the option to head for Switzerland instead: the 25th Fumetto Festival in Luzern was celebrated for a whole 10 days (April 10 to 20), featuring not only a range of renowned artists and exhibitions as well (one right in the streets of Luzern), but also a program that seemed targeted at scholars as much as at connoisseurs: a lecture series on comics by some true masters of the art (such as Ben Katchor, Joost Swarte or Matt Madden, to name just a few). In addition, there was an international symposium titled “Drawing as Language and how Comic Artists Teach it”. The symposium asked some of the most renowned artists how they share their experiences in teaching, in encounters with students, children and even refugees.

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News Review March 2016

04 Apr

Asia

Japan

Culture

Kyoto International Manga Museum is holding the TV anime series exhibition She and Her Cat – Everything Flows, from the 9th April  until the 19th June. Link (English, JBS)

The exhibition Est Naito, at Kyoto’s Trance Pop Cider 2 gallery, with art by manga artists Est Em and Yamada Naito, is running until the 17th April. Link (23/03/2016, Japnese, JBS)

Yonezawa Yoshihiro Memorial Library’s 71st event is a Talk Even with manga artists Kono Fumio and Ozawa Yuki, with ‘How to Enjoy Barefoot Gen’ as a theme. The event is held at Meiji University on the 16th of April 16th. Link (Japanese, JBS)

Americas

Canada

Research

The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (43.1) has been published, a special issue entitled “Exploring Canadian Identities in Canadian Comics”. Link (English, WG)

United States

Research

Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, the new journal of the Comics Studies Society, to be published beginning in 2017, has published a call for submissions. Link (English, WG)

Abstracts for an edited collection entitled, The Comics Work of Neil Gaiman: In Darkness, In Light, and In Shadow, are due by the 15th May. Link (09/03/2016, English, WG)

Creating Comics as Journalism, Memoir and Nonfiction, by Randy Duncan, Michael Ray Taylor, and David Stoddard, has been published through Routledge. Link (English, WG)

Prof. Fujimoto Yukari of Meiji University will give a presentation titled ‘The Structure and Characteristics of the Japanese Manga Market’ at Columbia Business School (New York) on the 6th April (registration required). Link (English, JBS)

Europe

France

Culture

French comics artist Joann Sfar was decorated knight of the Legion of Honour. Link (27/03/2016, French, BC)

Research

A call for papers has been issued for the study day La bande dessinée: quelles recherches?, organized in Paris by Benoît Berthou and Jacques Dürrenmatt on the 10th June 2016. Abstracts (in French) are due by the 8th April. Link (29/02/2016, French, BC)

The comics research network La Brèche, assembling graduate students and early-career researchers, has launched its website. Link (09/03/2016, French, BC)

Germany

Culture

This year’s Göttinger Elch award for satire goes to Max Goldt. Link (German, MdlI)

A Rodolphe Töpffer exhibition is being shown in Wiedensahl until the 28th August. Link (07/03/2016, German, MdlI)

The exhibition, Redrawing Stories from the Past, has moved on from Berlin to Chemnitz, where it is being shown until the 15th April. Link (14/03/2016, German, MdlI)

The Dōjinshi [amateur work] Of The Year 2015 award goes to Nana Yaa Kyere for her comic, MCS*. Link (16/03/2016, German, MdlI)

The 39th DONALD meeting took place in Cologne. Link (19/03/2016, German, MdlI)

The exhibition, Drawing the Line: Dissenting Voices in Contemporary Comics, will be shown in Berlin from the 8th to the 30th April. Link (24/03/2016, German, MdlI)

A Marc-Antoine Mathieu exhibition is taking place in Trebel from the 2nd to the 17th April. Link (31/03/2016, German, MdlI)

Research

The Closure conference on Beginnings and Renewals in Comics is going to take place in Kiel from the 9th – 11th September 2016; the deadline for abstracts is the 30th April. Link (German, MdlI)

A conference on The Empirical Study of Comics is going to take place in Bremen from the 7th to the 9th February 2017; the deadline for abstracts is the 31st May. Link (English, MdlI)

A one-day symposium on narrative structures and visual storytelling in comics is going to take place in Stuttgart on the 27th April 2016. Link (06/03/2016, English, MdlI)

A conference on myth and history in comics will take place in Leipzig from the 27th to the 30th April. Link (24/03/2016, German, MdlI)

Portugal

Culture

Until the end of April, the gallery Mundo Fantasma in Oporto, is hosting the exhibition Elipse of Sofia Neto. The exhibition is composed of some original comics works that were published in her book titled Eco [Echo]. Link (15/03/2016, Portuguese, RR)

On the 19th March the Libreria Tusitala in Badajoz, Spain opened an exhibition featuring the work of Portuguese comic authors, João Sequeira and Sónia Oliveira. The exhibition can be visited until the 9th April. Link (Spanish and Portuguese, RR)

Until the 16th April an exhibition dedicated to the Portuguese author José Garcês is being hosted in the Portuguese National Library (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal) in Lisbon. Link (Portuguese, RR)

Spain 

Culture

La Casa, by Paco Roca, has been been awarded Best National Comic 2015 by the Confederación Española de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros (CEGAL). Link (09/03/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Spanish humorist Forges has announced that he will donate all his works to the National Library of Spain. Link (07/03/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Universo DC Cómics, an exhibition about DC Universe on the occasion of the new, can be visited in many different parts of Madrid from the 4th March to the 21st April. Link (08/03/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

El arte en el cómic, an exhibition about the relationship between famous works of art and comics, can be visited at Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, from the 18th February to the 15th May. Link (08/03/2015, Spanish, EdRC)

Superhéroes con ñ, an exhibition about the work of the numerous Spanish comic authors working for Marvel and DC, can be visited at Museo ABC, Madrid, from the 11th March to the 12th June. Link (11/03/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Research

Acción Cultural Española, with the collaboration of the Institut Français in Spain, is offering a four month stay at the Maison des Auteurs in Angoûleme for a Spanish graphic novel author. The deadline for applications finishes on the 8th May. Link (12/03/2016, Spanish, EdRC)

Switzerland

Culture

The Fumetto festival in Lucerne is going to take place from the 16th until the 24th April; guests include Joe Sacco and Joost Swarte. Link (21/03/2016, German, MdlI)

UK

Culture

The exhibition Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics will be on at the House of Illustration, London, until the 15th May. Link (English, WG)

Research

There is a call for papers for a special issue of Comics Grid titled, Find David Bowie: Alternative Approaches to Bowie and Comics. The submission deadline for full papers is the 1st September. Link (14/03/2016, English, WG)

There is a call for presentations for, The Superhero: 2nd Global Meeting, which will take place between the 9th and 11th September at Mansfield College, Oxford. 300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be submitted by the 15th April. Link (English, WG)

The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 7.1 has been published. Link (English, WG)

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Correspondents: Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto (JBS, Japan and America), Enrique del Rey Cabero (EdRC, Spain), Benoît Crucifix (BC, France), William Grady (WG, United States, Canada and UK), Martin de la Iglesia (MdlI, Germany and Switzerland), and Renatta Rafaella (RR, Portugal).

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