CFP/ MLA 2027. Panel on Migration in Children's and YA Graphic Narratives, sponsored by the Forum on Comics and Graphic Narrative. Deadline 3/16.
MLA 2027 CFP for 3 panels sponsored by the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum:
I. Migration in Children's and YA Graphic Narratives
II. Heated Rivalries: Sports, Games, and Graphic Narrative
III. The Hernandez Brothers, Page-by-Page
If you're going to be at MLA 2026 in Toronto this week, the Comics & Graphic Narratives Forum is hosting a social at The Beguiling on Friday at 7pm. Come out and say hello!
If you are in Toronto this week for the MLA Convention, the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum is sponsoring a social hour at the comics store The Beguiling on Friday, 1/9 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm.
#AcademicSky Please share this call for #ComicsStudies chapters for our proposed Companion to International Comics Studies as widely as possible. Full details here ow.ly/5vY050XipXT and deadline for proposals is 31 Jan 2026.
Happy Tuesday folks - if you missed out on the last Kickstarter, you can now buy print and digital copies of The Comics Courier Issue 2 from our Ko-Fi shop!
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Happy LAUNCH DAY! The Comics Courier @kickstarter.com is BACK babeeeyyy. Head on over to comicscourier.com to pledge and nab yourself a smokin hot copy of The Comics Courier issue 2. You wont regret it!
Guess what? The Comics Courier's Kickstarter is coming round the bend!!! Head over to our pre launch campaign to make sure you're up to date on our shenanigans (it took me 3 times to spell shenanigans!!!)!!!
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And on Alfageeh and Saladin Ahmed's Fadi Fadlalah, Marvel's first Arab American superhero: "Amulet Offers Hope for Good Comic Book Arab Representation"
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On Shammas and Sara Alfageeh's Squire: "The World of Squire Is a Familiar Face"
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It's Arab American Heritage Month, so here's a few @wwacomics.bsky.social pieces about Arab rep in comics, starting with "Spotlight on Nadia Shammas"
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It's time to click the button, folks! The pre-launch page for The Comics Courier Issue 2 is live NOW! And what a lineup!
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Happy New Year, pals.
It's time for the (hopefully annual) comic critics mini grant.
My family and I are giving four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
Apply here:
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Two weeks left to submit!
Every time someone asks me what I’m presenting at MLA I’m reminded that I named my paper after a Dwayne The Rock Johnson meme.
Now that there are more #ComicsStudies scholars here, here's the CFP for The Blue Age of Comics Book! Abstracts due January 15, 2025.
Hello new folks I am not online very often (for a few reasons) but first and foremost being that I am doing what Steve asked.
Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero and I are very excited to share the CFP for our #comicsstudies co-edited collection: The Blue Age of Comics Book! adrienneresha.com/the-blue-age...
Proposed seminars for ACLA 2025 are up, including "How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections," which I'm co-organizing with Kate Kelp-Stebbins. Please consider submitting (or sharing with someone who should)!
CFP and link to submit: www.acla.org/how-it%E2%80...
Hello! I’d like to raise some funds for Shelfdust, a comic book website. Everyone writing on Shelfdust covers comics one issue at a time: each essay focuses on a single comic issue.
We pay every writer through support on Patreon! Pledging $1 a year is all it takes: www.patreon.com/shelfdust
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"[Killing Ms. Marvel] was a choice for each of [the creators], even if it was a plot point mandated from above, because they decided to put their names on it despite any objections they may have had." womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2023/05/the-...
CSS is excited to announce our keynotes for Glitching Comics: John Jennings & Sara Alfageeh!
Registration is also OPEN! Join us for 5 days of virtual programming incld scholarly presentations, workshops, creator roundtables, social events & an Artists Alley comicsstudies.org/registration/
Just THREE weeks remain to get those proposals to our virtual conference in! Bring your glitchiest, feministest ideas, and get ready for the wildest, weirdest Comics Studies Society since the last one! More info here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...
The CFP for CSS's 2024 conference *Glitching Comics* is OPEN! Join us for a virtual conference following the work of Legacy Russell in disrupting the status quo, working against norms, and imagining new possibilities for comics. Art by Sara Alfageeh comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...
