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Comics and Cultural Work: Introduction by Casey Brienza
‘All artistic work, like all human activity, involves the joint activity of a number, often a large number, of people. Through their cooperation, the art work we eventually see or hear comes to be and...
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News Review: November 2013
Americas Canada Research Benjamin Woo, at the University in Calgary, is currently conducting a study of working conditions in comics. He is currently seeking those involved with comics creation to...
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Why is it so hard to think about comics as labour? by Benjamin Woo
Last year, Image Comics ran an in-house advertising campaign featuring simple, candid photographs of comic book writers and artists in their working environments (see Khouri 2012). Emblazoned with...
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Comics and the Day Job: Cartooning and Work in Jeffrey Brown and James...
James Kochalka is a prolific cartoonist known largely for his autobiographical comic American Elf (1998-2012), which ran daily for almost eleven years before he called time on it last year. The early...
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My Brief Adventure in Comic Book Retail by Tom Miller
I distinctly remember, on September 11th 2001, driving to the empty store in Oakville, Ontario that would be my comics and used book shop, and hearing a report on a Buffalo radio station about the...
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Comics and Cultural Work: Conclusion by Casey Brienza
As I wrote in my introduction to this Comics Forum Special Theme Month on Comics and Cultural Work: [R]esearch into cultural work has thus far been broadly concerned with the following two questions:...
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News Review: December 2013
Americas United States Business DC Comics and Marvel take top spots of total unit sales of products invoiced during the month of November according to Diamond News. Batman #25, Harley Quinn #0 and...
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Image [&] Narrative #11: The Mode of the Mainstream and the Graphic Novel in...
In this final instalment of our exploration of the Flemish comics scene, we will have a look at the final sphere out of the three spheres which we have introduced in the course of this series. After...
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Using Comics to Teach Philosophy, Inclusively by Joyce C. Havstad
As an educator, I’m always looking for new ways to engage students. As someone who teaches philosophy at a large state school—in fact, at a prototypical American Research University—I’m always trying...
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The Death of the Cartoonist? Working on Living Creators by Barbara Postema
Comics studies is a young field in more than its academic standing. With the flourishing of comics production at the moment, it is also young in terms of its texts and its creators. Many of the texts...
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Comics and the World Wars – a cultural record by Anna Hoyles
At the University of Lincoln, Professor Jane Chapman and her team of researchers have been funded by the AHRC to explore the cultural impact of comics produced during and about the World Wars. Two...
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News Review: January 2014
Americas Argentina Research The call for papers for the Third International Biennial Comics Conference Viñetas Serias has been announced. The registration form for the event will be enabled from the...
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The International Bande Dessinée Society: February 2014 by Lisa Tannahill and...
The International Bande Dessinée Society (IBDS) was founded in 1999, aiming to encourage scholarly discussion of the French-language comic or bande dessinée, in all its forms. Their journal, European...
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Comics Forum Articles Among Hooded Utilitarian’s Best of 2013
For the second year running, articles published by Comics Forum are among the Best Online Comics Criticism as selected by The Hooded Utilitarian. The selected articles from 2013 are: Between Supermen:...
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Tintin at 85: A Conference Review by Paddy Johnston
Tintin at 85 was a one-day symposium at UCL, scheduled for the 85th anniversary of Tintin’s first appearance in Le Petit Vingtième. Organisers Tyler Shores and Tom Ue had been working on a forthcoming...
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Maus in the Indonesian Classroom by Philip Smith
As regular readers of Comics Forum are aware, the site recently featured a Themed Month which sought to examine comics as cultural production. The issue looked first at the work of comic book authors...
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The Comics Arts Conference and Public Humanities by Kathleen McClancy
Comics studies has come a long way in the past few years. Scholarship centered on sequential art is no longer considered beyond the pale of the academy; academic conferences and journals focusing on...
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The Bi-Monthly ComFor Update: February 2014 by Stephan Packard
Today’s short update begins a new column at Comics Forum: Every two months, one of the comics scholars in the German Society for Comics Studies, the Gesellschaft für Comicforschung or “ComFor”, will...
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Graphixia at Comics Forum 2013
Comics Forum is pleased to feature five videos today by the team from Graphixia. The first four videos, under the collected title of ‘Small is the New Big: The Comics Criticism Blog as Small Press...
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News Review: February 2014
Americas Canada Education There is a PhD scholarship available at the University of Calgary to pursue a doctoral study in comics in the Department of English. The proposed study will be supervised...
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