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EPIC THEMES IN AWESOME WAYS: How we made Asteroid Belter: The Newcastle...
1. Introduction Asteroid Belter: The Newcastle Science Comic is a 44-page, newsprint, 10000 copy print run comic for the British Science Festival 2013 hosted by Newcastle University, England. It was...
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News Review: September 2014
Africa South Africa Culture GRAPHIC RADICALS: At the Cutting Edge of Comic Art, is an exhibition that will take place in Muizenberg, Cape Town, from the 3rd October. Link (English, WG) Americas Canada...
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Manga Studies #5: Takeuchi Osamu and Manga Expression pt. 1: Tezuka Osamu as...
Takeuchi Osamu, a professor of media studies at Doshisha University, is likely not the best manga studies critic to use as an introduction to problems surrounding the relatively recent turn in Japanese...
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Comics Forum 2014: Registration Open
Click here to download a PDF of this poster. Registration for Comics Forum 2014 – Violence: A Conference on Comics is now open! This year’s conference will feature nearly 40 papers, which we’ll be...
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The Bi-Monthly ComFor Update: October 2014 by Laura Oehme
Just like my predecessors, Stephan Packard and Lukas Wilde, I will use this fifth column of the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor) in order to briefly summarize the latest news from the German...
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News Review: October 2014
Americas Canada Education Nancy Pedri at Memorial University is seeking an MA student and a PhD student who are interested in working on comics and/or photography in literature. Those interested in...
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Comics Forum 2014: Lineup
Coming up at Comics Forum 2014 on Thursday-Friday next week, we have a fantastic lineup of speakers! Our keynote speech will be delivered on Thursday afternoon by Professor Jane Chapman, and we look...
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News Review: November 2014
Americas Canada Research Bart Beaty will speak about his research into Archie at the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, Ryerson University, on the 8th December. Link (English, WG) United...
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New Book: Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels
A collection of fifteen articles, originally presented as conference papers at Comics Forum 2012, has been published by Routledge as Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels, edited...
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The Bi-Monthly ComFor Update: December 2014 by Nina Heindl
It’s the sixth and last column by the German Society of Comics Studies (ComFor) in 2014 and as in the previous five columns I’d like to give an overview on the last months’ activities in German comics...
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News Review: December 2014
Africa South Africa Culture Pop the Culture’s Kunjanimation Expo took place in Cape Town in November. It is a new initiative that looks at doing workshops and events to improve storytelling in comics,...
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News Review: January 2015
Americas Canada Research Twelve-Cent Archie, by Bart Beaty, has now been published through Rutgers University Press. Link (English, WG) United States Business DC and Marvel top the charts for the Top...
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News Review: February 2015
Americas United States Culture The New-York Historical Society has awarded its annual American History Book Prize to Jill Lepore’s The Secret History of Wonder Woman. Link (17/02/2015, English, WG)...
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News Review: March 2015
Americas United States Culture New Yorker cartoonist, Roz Chast, won the National Book Critics Circle autobiography prize for Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?. Link (12/03/2015, English,...
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News Review: April 2015
Americas United States Culture Nominations for the 2015 Eisner Awards have been announced, inclusive of the category for Best Scholarly/Academic Work. Link (English, WG) Education The University of...
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News Review: May 2015
Africa South Africa Culture The current exhibition at Erdmann Contemporary is Speechless, a comic art exhibition. Link (English, WG) Americas United States Education The University of Massachusetts...
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News Review: June 2015
Americas Canada Research There is a call for contributions to the collection, New manga, Manfra, Franga: Varied and Reciprocal Influences between Manga and “BD”. Proposals are due by the 10th October....
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News Review: July 2015
Americas Canada Culture The “What Were Comics?” research project is a four-year study of the evolution of comic book stylistics over an eighty-year period. Housed at the University of Calgary under the...
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News Review: August 2015
Americas Argentina Research There is a call for book chapter proposals for the collection, Todo Fontanarrosa: la obra de un completo humorista / All Fontanarrosa: The Work of a Complete Humourist....
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News Review: September 2015
Americas United States Research The conference, Comics and Visual Culture: A Conference for Student Research, will take place on the 27th February 2016, at California State University, Northridge, Los...
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