Mike Rhode has posted the contents to IJoCA 16.1 at the journal's blog. Details at http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2014/06/international-journal-of-comic-art.html.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
CFP Asian Comics and Graphic Novels on Film (Panel for SCMS) (7/20/14; Montreal 3/25-29/15)
One more for the night:
SCMS 2015: Asian Comics and Graphic Novels - Deadline: July 20, 2014
full name / name of organization:
Areum Jeong / UCLA
contact email:
areumjeong@gmail.com
I am organizing a panel for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference which will be held March 25-29, 2015 at Montreal.
This panel looks at the relationship between nation and visuality, in particular, the visualization of Asian comics and graphic novels in cinema. Focusing on Asian comics and graphic novels and their filmic adaptations, the panel explores how such works represent performances of everyday life and/or political critique across the continent.
How do comics and graphic novels and their filmic adaptations confront national history and memory? How do such works represent and/or misrepresent a particular national identity? How do such works construct race or gender in a nation? How do such works represent minoritarian figures? What forms of adaptation and/or translation exist for images of comics and graphic novels that make national and/or transnational cinemas possible? And what happens when those imagined communities move from one nation to another or remain in the interstice between nations?
Paper proposals of 300 words should be sent to Areum Jeong at areumjeong@ucla.edu by July 20, 2014.
By web submission at 06/09/2014 - 06:57
CFP Website maintained by
The University of Pennsylvania Department of English
SCMS 2015: Asian Comics and Graphic Novels - Deadline: July 20, 2014
full name / name of organization:
Areum Jeong / UCLA
contact email:
areumjeong@gmail.com
I am organizing a panel for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference which will be held March 25-29, 2015 at Montreal.
This panel looks at the relationship between nation and visuality, in particular, the visualization of Asian comics and graphic novels in cinema. Focusing on Asian comics and graphic novels and their filmic adaptations, the panel explores how such works represent performances of everyday life and/or political critique across the continent.
How do comics and graphic novels and their filmic adaptations confront national history and memory? How do such works represent and/or misrepresent a particular national identity? How do such works construct race or gender in a nation? How do such works represent minoritarian figures? What forms of adaptation and/or translation exist for images of comics and graphic novels that make national and/or transnational cinemas possible? And what happens when those imagined communities move from one nation to another or remain in the interstice between nations?
Paper proposals of 300 words should be sent to Areum Jeong at areumjeong@ucla.edu by July 20, 2014.
By web submission at 06/09/2014 - 06:57
CFP Website maintained by
The University of Pennsylvania Department of English
CFP Ages of the Incredible Hulk (7/15/14)
Darowski's at work again:
The Ages of the Incredible Hulk: Essays on Marvel's Jade Giant in Changing Times
full name / name of organization:
Joseph J. Darowski
contact email:
darowskij@byui.edu
The editor of The Ages of the Incredible Hulk: Essays on Marvel’s Jade Giant in Changing Times is seeking abstracts for essays which could be included in the upcoming collection. The essays should examine the relationships between Incredible Hulk comic books (or comic books featuring Hulk-related characters) and the culture when those comics were published. Analysis may demonstrate how the stories found in Hulk comic books and the creators who produced the comics embrace, reflect, or critique aspects of their contemporary culture. This will be a companion volume to The Ages of Superman, The Ages of Wonder Woman, The Ages of the X-Men, The Ages of the Avengers, and The Ages of Iron Man.
Potential chapters include, but are not limited to, the following:
-Controlling the Bomb: A Scientist’s Unintended Consequences in The Incredible Hulk
-Nuclear Power, the U.S. Military, and Fear: The Weaponization of Bruce Banner
-Balance of Power: The Hulk’s Awkward Role in The Avengers
-The Hulk Versus the U.S. Military in the Vietnam War Era
-The Two Sides of Nuclear Power: Bruce Banner and Samuel Sterns
-Hulk Versus the Abomination: Cold War Politics in Superhero Adventures
-She-Hulk and the Working Woman
-The Incredible Hulk: Crossroads and the Search for Identity
-Raising Awareness of Child Abuse in Marvel Comics and a New Origin for the Hulk
-Future Imperfect: Unchecked Power After the Cold War
-Addressing AIDS in Marvel Comics: Jim Wilson, Rick Jones, and the Hulk
-The Sensational She-Hulk and Hyper-Awareness of Form in Contemporary Comics
-Hulk: The End and Dystopian Fears in the New Millennium
-Twenty-First Century Gladiator: Planet Hulk
-Red Hulk: Becoming What You Fear.
Essays should focus on stories from the Hulk’s comic book adventures, not media adaptations of the character. Furthermore, essays should look at a single period of comic book history, rather than drawing comparisons between different publication eras. For example, an essay that analyzed Hulk comics from the early 1960s and contextualized them with what was happening in American society would be more likely to be accepted than an essay that contrasted Hulk comic books from the 1970s with Hulk comic books from the 1990s. Any team title or mini-series that features Hulk, or Hulk-related characters such as She-Hulk, Red Hulk, or Skarr, can be considered as source material for potential chapters.
The completed essays should be approximately 15-20 double-spaced pages.
Abstracts (100-500 words) and CVs should be submitted by July 15, 2014.
Please submit via email to Joseph Darowski, darowskij@byui.edu
Joseph Darowski
Brigham Young University-Idaho
525 S. Center
Rigby Hall 122
Rexburg, ID 83460
Phone: (517) 281-3275
By web submission at 06/09/2014 - 15:25
The Ages of the Incredible Hulk: Essays on Marvel's Jade Giant in Changing Times
full name / name of organization:
Joseph J. Darowski
contact email:
darowskij@byui.edu
The editor of The Ages of the Incredible Hulk: Essays on Marvel’s Jade Giant in Changing Times is seeking abstracts for essays which could be included in the upcoming collection. The essays should examine the relationships between Incredible Hulk comic books (or comic books featuring Hulk-related characters) and the culture when those comics were published. Analysis may demonstrate how the stories found in Hulk comic books and the creators who produced the comics embrace, reflect, or critique aspects of their contemporary culture. This will be a companion volume to The Ages of Superman, The Ages of Wonder Woman, The Ages of the X-Men, The Ages of the Avengers, and The Ages of Iron Man.
Potential chapters include, but are not limited to, the following:
-Controlling the Bomb: A Scientist’s Unintended Consequences in The Incredible Hulk
-Nuclear Power, the U.S. Military, and Fear: The Weaponization of Bruce Banner
-Balance of Power: The Hulk’s Awkward Role in The Avengers
-The Hulk Versus the U.S. Military in the Vietnam War Era
-The Two Sides of Nuclear Power: Bruce Banner and Samuel Sterns
-Hulk Versus the Abomination: Cold War Politics in Superhero Adventures
-She-Hulk and the Working Woman
-The Incredible Hulk: Crossroads and the Search for Identity
-Raising Awareness of Child Abuse in Marvel Comics and a New Origin for the Hulk
-Future Imperfect: Unchecked Power After the Cold War
-Addressing AIDS in Marvel Comics: Jim Wilson, Rick Jones, and the Hulk
-The Sensational She-Hulk and Hyper-Awareness of Form in Contemporary Comics
-Hulk: The End and Dystopian Fears in the New Millennium
-Twenty-First Century Gladiator: Planet Hulk
-Red Hulk: Becoming What You Fear.
Essays should focus on stories from the Hulk’s comic book adventures, not media adaptations of the character. Furthermore, essays should look at a single period of comic book history, rather than drawing comparisons between different publication eras. For example, an essay that analyzed Hulk comics from the early 1960s and contextualized them with what was happening in American society would be more likely to be accepted than an essay that contrasted Hulk comic books from the 1970s with Hulk comic books from the 1990s. Any team title or mini-series that features Hulk, or Hulk-related characters such as She-Hulk, Red Hulk, or Skarr, can be considered as source material for potential chapters.
The completed essays should be approximately 15-20 double-spaced pages.
Abstracts (100-500 words) and CVs should be submitted by July 15, 2014.
Please submit via email to Joseph Darowski, darowskij@byui.edu
Joseph Darowski
Brigham Young University-Idaho
525 S. Center
Rigby Hall 122
Rexburg, ID 83460
Phone: (517) 281-3275
By web submission at 06/09/2014 - 15:25
CFP Sidekicks and Underlings (5/31/14; France 10/3-4/14)
Sounds like a fun conference theme:
Sidekicks and Underlings - Oct. 3-4, 2014 - Bordeaux, France
full name / name of organization:
CLIMAS, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, France
contact email:
Nathalie.Jaeck@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr, Jean-Paul.Gabilliet@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
Sidekicks and Underlings
Université Bordeaux-Montaigne
Bordeaux - Oct. 3-4, 2014.
CLIMAS (Cultures et Littératures des Mondes Anglophones), the research group in Anglo-American Studies of Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, organizes a conference titled “Sidekicks and Underlings” to be held in Bordeaux on October 3-4, 2014.
We expect submissions from specialists of literature, arts, popular culture, history, politics in the English-speaking world.
The role of the second has a long, rich history and sidekicks can be traced back extensively (Agamemnon to Menelaus, Horatio to Hamlet): avoiding a mere inventory of case-studies, we will thus examine the interests of that unequal pairing, the crucial functions of sidekicks and underlings – from comic relief, to faithful support of the hero, to intradiegetic embodiment of the audience, a kind of intermediary persona variously mediating and modulating the access to the hero. We will also explore the nature of the specific links between sidekicks and genre fiction (it seems indeed that detective fiction, comedy, fantasy constitute favourable grounds to sidekicks), as well as the particular relevance of the figure in classic popular literature – sidekicks often playing the role of the lesser intelligent character in order to highlight the flamboyance of the hero. Sidekicks are also crucially a way to elaborate on the identity of the hero: sometimes supplying for a lack (Dr. Watson making Sherlock Holmes more humane for example), sometimes highlighting a specific aspect of their counterpart. They introduce a duality in the self, and allow for a reflexion on the notion of identity, and may thus extend to inter-gender and inter-ethnic constructs.
We will also be specifically interested in what could be called the modern prominence of sidekicks and underlings, and the complication of the pattern. It first seems that the role of sidekick might well be a convenient unassuming mask, a harmless decoy to hide eminently powerful characters or interests, and that the respective positions in typical pairs are less static than it seems, more interchangeable, and reversible even. This pattern is valid both in fiction where secondary characters overshadow or even outdo the hero, and in history or politics: the position of the sidekick is indeed a strategic one, a sort of convenient, protected rear base that typically gives less visibility and thus more freedom. Eminences grises and underdogs in politics will also come under scrutiny, as well as the several strategies to minimise one’s position in order to better achieve domineering aims.
It finally reads as if sidekicks and underlings had gradually gained ground, as if in some instances, they did not need a hero any more, and did not define themselves as the lesser character in a pair, but as the central focus – heroes being sometimes radically done up with – we might think for example of the Judd Apatow movies, that typically present the audience with a palatable collection of multiple sidekicks, that colonise the movies, and break the convention of the hero. Examining the many examples where sidekicks and underlings attract the limelight will enable us to reflect upon their modern rehabilitation, their glamorous return.
Please submit proposals (in English or French) by May 31, 2014 to:
Nathalie.Jaeck@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
Jean-Paul.Gabilliet@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
By web submission at 04/25/2014 - 11:18
Sidekicks and Underlings - Oct. 3-4, 2014 - Bordeaux, France
full name / name of organization:
CLIMAS, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, France
contact email:
Nathalie.Jaeck@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr, Jean-Paul.Gabilliet@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
Sidekicks and Underlings
Université Bordeaux-Montaigne
Bordeaux - Oct. 3-4, 2014.
CLIMAS (Cultures et Littératures des Mondes Anglophones), the research group in Anglo-American Studies of Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, organizes a conference titled “Sidekicks and Underlings” to be held in Bordeaux on October 3-4, 2014.
We expect submissions from specialists of literature, arts, popular culture, history, politics in the English-speaking world.
The role of the second has a long, rich history and sidekicks can be traced back extensively (Agamemnon to Menelaus, Horatio to Hamlet): avoiding a mere inventory of case-studies, we will thus examine the interests of that unequal pairing, the crucial functions of sidekicks and underlings – from comic relief, to faithful support of the hero, to intradiegetic embodiment of the audience, a kind of intermediary persona variously mediating and modulating the access to the hero. We will also explore the nature of the specific links between sidekicks and genre fiction (it seems indeed that detective fiction, comedy, fantasy constitute favourable grounds to sidekicks), as well as the particular relevance of the figure in classic popular literature – sidekicks often playing the role of the lesser intelligent character in order to highlight the flamboyance of the hero. Sidekicks are also crucially a way to elaborate on the identity of the hero: sometimes supplying for a lack (Dr. Watson making Sherlock Holmes more humane for example), sometimes highlighting a specific aspect of their counterpart. They introduce a duality in the self, and allow for a reflexion on the notion of identity, and may thus extend to inter-gender and inter-ethnic constructs.
We will also be specifically interested in what could be called the modern prominence of sidekicks and underlings, and the complication of the pattern. It first seems that the role of sidekick might well be a convenient unassuming mask, a harmless decoy to hide eminently powerful characters or interests, and that the respective positions in typical pairs are less static than it seems, more interchangeable, and reversible even. This pattern is valid both in fiction where secondary characters overshadow or even outdo the hero, and in history or politics: the position of the sidekick is indeed a strategic one, a sort of convenient, protected rear base that typically gives less visibility and thus more freedom. Eminences grises and underdogs in politics will also come under scrutiny, as well as the several strategies to minimise one’s position in order to better achieve domineering aims.
It finally reads as if sidekicks and underlings had gradually gained ground, as if in some instances, they did not need a hero any more, and did not define themselves as the lesser character in a pair, but as the central focus – heroes being sometimes radically done up with – we might think for example of the Judd Apatow movies, that typically present the audience with a palatable collection of multiple sidekicks, that colonise the movies, and break the convention of the hero. Examining the many examples where sidekicks and underlings attract the limelight will enable us to reflect upon their modern rehabilitation, their glamorous return.
Please submit proposals (in English or French) by May 31, 2014 to:
Nathalie.Jaeck@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
Jean-Paul.Gabilliet@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
By web submission at 04/25/2014 - 11:18
CFP New Directions in Comics Studies (7/30/14; UK 10/25/14)
TRANSITIONS 5 – New Directions in Comics Studies
full name / name of organization:
Birkbeck, University of London
contact email:
transitions.symposium@gmail.com
TRANSITIONS 5 – New Directions in Comics Studies
Saturday October 25th 2014 at Birkbeck, University of London
Call for Papers
Keynote: Dr. Jason Dittmer (UCL, Captain America & the Nationalist Superhero)
Respondent: Dr. Roger Sabin, Central Saint Martins, Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels)
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the forthcoming 5th Transitions symposium, promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/ comix/ manga/ bande dessinée and other forms of sequential art. By deliberately not appointing a set theme, we hope to put together a programme reflecting the diversity of comics studies. We welcome abstracts for twenty minute papers as well as proposals for panels.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
text-oriented approaches – studies of key creators – historical and contemporary studies of production and circulation of comics – readerships and fan cultures – critical reception – formats, platforms and contexts – the (im)materiality of comics – archival concerns – formalist/narratological approaches – comics and aesthetics – adaptation, convergence and remediation – international iterations and transnational comics – children’s comics – political comics – comics and cultural theory – ideological/discursive critiques – web comics – graphic medicine – non-fiction comics – comics as historiography – comics practice and theory– cultural histories/geographies…
Abstracts for twenty minute papers should be no more than 250 – 300 words. Proposals for papers and panels should be sent as Word documents, with a short biography appended, and submitted by the 30th of July 2014 to Hallvard, Tony and Nina at transitions.symposium@gmail.com.
Transitions is supported by Comica, The Centre for Contemporary Literature (Birkbeck), and the Contemporary Fiction Seminar.
http://www.ccl.bbk.ac.uk/transitions-5-call-for-papers/
By web submission at 05/27/2014 - 16:47
full name / name of organization:
Birkbeck, University of London
contact email:
transitions.symposium@gmail.com
TRANSITIONS 5 – New Directions in Comics Studies
Saturday October 25th 2014 at Birkbeck, University of London
Call for Papers
Keynote: Dr. Jason Dittmer (UCL, Captain America & the Nationalist Superhero)
Respondent: Dr. Roger Sabin, Central Saint Martins, Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels)
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the forthcoming 5th Transitions symposium, promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/ comix/ manga/ bande dessinée and other forms of sequential art. By deliberately not appointing a set theme, we hope to put together a programme reflecting the diversity of comics studies. We welcome abstracts for twenty minute papers as well as proposals for panels.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
text-oriented approaches – studies of key creators – historical and contemporary studies of production and circulation of comics – readerships and fan cultures – critical reception – formats, platforms and contexts – the (im)materiality of comics – archival concerns – formalist/narratological approaches – comics and aesthetics – adaptation, convergence and remediation – international iterations and transnational comics – children’s comics – political comics – comics and cultural theory – ideological/discursive critiques – web comics – graphic medicine – non-fiction comics – comics as historiography – comics practice and theory– cultural histories/geographies…
Abstracts for twenty minute papers should be no more than 250 – 300 words. Proposals for papers and panels should be sent as Word documents, with a short biography appended, and submitted by the 30th of July 2014 to Hallvard, Tony and Nina at transitions.symposium@gmail.com.
Transitions is supported by Comica, The Centre for Contemporary Literature (Birkbeck), and the Contemporary Fiction Seminar.
http://www.ccl.bbk.ac.uk/transitions-5-call-for-papers/
By web submission at 05/27/2014 - 16:47
Conference Comics and Medicine: From Private Lives to Public Health (6/26-28/14)
[UPDATE] Comics and Medicine: From Private Lives to Public Health
full name / name of organization:
Comics and Medicine international organizing group
http://www.graphicmedicine.org/comics-and-medicine-conferences/2014-baltimore-conference/
Comics and Medicine: From Private Lives to Public Health
Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, June 26-28, 2014.
Keynote speakers: Ellen Forney,Arthur Frank, Carol Tilley, James Sturm.
Cartoonists, comics scholars, health care workers,patients. Scholarly sessions, lightning presentations, artists' tables.
By web submission at 06/01/2014 - 13:05
full name / name of organization:
Comics and Medicine international organizing group
http://www.graphicmedicine.org/comics-and-medicine-conferences/2014-baltimore-conference/
Comics and Medicine: From Private Lives to Public Health
Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, June 26-28, 2014.
Keynote speakers: Ellen Forney,Arthur Frank, Carol Tilley, James Sturm.
Cartoonists, comics scholars, health care workers,patients. Scholarly sessions, lightning presentations, artists' tables.
By web submission at 06/01/2014 - 13:05
CFP Graphic Novel (Spec. Issue Studies in the Novel) (10/1/14)
Call for Papers: Special issue on the Graphic Novel, deadline of Oct. 1, 2014
full name / name of organization:
Studies in the Novel
contact email:
studiesinthenovel@unt.edu
Studies in the Novel is inviting papers for possible inclusion in a special issue on the graphic novel to be guest edited by Stephen E. Tabachnick, Professor of English at the University of Memphis, author of The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel (2014), and editor of Teaching the Graphic Novel (2009). Essays on any aspect of the graphic novel are welcome, ranging from close readings of individual works or the analysis of the oeuvre of a given writer/artist, to broader topics, such as consideration of the influence of a national tradition, a study of formal elements in several works, graphic novel adaptations, new methods of graphic novel analysis, or the teaching of graphic novels. For consideration, complete essays of no more than 9,000 words should be submitted by October 1, 2014 to Tim Boswell, Managing Editor, at studiesinthenovel@unt.edu.
By web submission at 05/06/2014 - 20:41
full name / name of organization:
Studies in the Novel
contact email:
studiesinthenovel@unt.edu
Studies in the Novel is inviting papers for possible inclusion in a special issue on the graphic novel to be guest edited by Stephen E. Tabachnick, Professor of English at the University of Memphis, author of The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel (2014), and editor of Teaching the Graphic Novel (2009). Essays on any aspect of the graphic novel are welcome, ranging from close readings of individual works or the analysis of the oeuvre of a given writer/artist, to broader topics, such as consideration of the influence of a national tradition, a study of formal elements in several works, graphic novel adaptations, new methods of graphic novel analysis, or the teaching of graphic novels. For consideration, complete essays of no more than 9,000 words should be submitted by October 1, 2014 to Tim Boswell, Managing Editor, at studiesinthenovel@unt.edu.
By web submission at 05/06/2014 - 20:41
CFP: Influence of Comics/BD/Graphic Novels on the Novel (9/30/14)
CFP: Transformed by Comics: the influence of comics/BD/graphic novels on the Novel
(from H-PCAACA: https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/25847/cfp-transformed-comics-influence-comicsbdgraphic-novels-novel)
While there has been scholarly research on the influence of poetry on cinema, or the influence of paintings on poetry, as well as the relationship between film and fiction, little work has been published on the importance of comics and graphic novels for contemporary writing. Such a space is all the more obvious when one considers new works on the relationship between high and low culture, comics and fine art. What would for example a novelization of a BD, graphic novel or comic mean? What titles exist in today’s ‘comics aware’ culture and is there a forgotten tradition to discover? What codes, practices, themes and narrative techniques are significant for novelizations of text-image source texts?
There is a small but significant discussion on Chabon’s Kavalier and Clay (2001), or Jay Cantor’s Krazy Kat (1994) as well as Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), but not much on Tom de Have’s Funny Papers (1985), Frederic Teuten’s Tintin in the New World (1993), Rick Moody’s Ice Storm (1994), Austin Grossman’s Soon I will be invincible (2007). More work is clearly needed, including on lost Anglophone texts, as well as sites from other cultural traditions.
We certainly need also to start to evaluate Francophone and other non-Anglophone examples. Do the novelists who also work with BD separate out their two fields of activity or work with more intermedial techniques? For example does Jean Teulé’s Bord Cadrage (2009) work as a complex play between forms? Not to mention work from Harry Morgan (alias Christian Wahl), who is a novelist, BD writer and theorist of comics. And what about the growing importance of Ludovic Debeurme, Benoit Peeters, François Rivière, Willy Mouele, and Joann Sfar? All of whom are working in spaces that sit between traditional fiction and the world of the comics. What about the novels in other languages? In Italian (e.g. Umberto Eco’s La Misteriosa Fiamma de la regina Loanna, 2004)? In Dutch? Spanish? German? Japanese? Also, if the comics world is dominated by male writers and male fans, are there women writers interested in subverting these phallocentric comics in their novels?
We invite papers on any aspect of this research question, including treatments of single authors or comparative works, theoretical engagements with underlying narratological and text-image questions, as well as cross-national expansions of the sense of the field. No special consideration is given for any cultural space, we encourage originality Similarly papers on the pre-existing tradition of children’s literature and its adaptation strategies are welcome such as Dave Eggers’s novelisation of Where the Wild Things are.
Length & Deadlines:
400-500 Word Abstracts are invited for 30 September 2014
4000-5000 word essays to be completed after editorial selection for January 30 2015
The text will be published in a special issue of Image & Narrative after the traditional double blind review process.
Language: English or French
Contact editors, Hugo Frey (h.frey@chi.ac.uk) and Chris Reyns-Chikuma (reynschi@ualberta.ca)
Chris Reyns-Chikuma
MLCS
University of Alberta
Canada
Email: reynschi@ualberta.ca
(from H-PCAACA: https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/25847/cfp-transformed-comics-influence-comicsbdgraphic-novels-novel)
While there has been scholarly research on the influence of poetry on cinema, or the influence of paintings on poetry, as well as the relationship between film and fiction, little work has been published on the importance of comics and graphic novels for contemporary writing. Such a space is all the more obvious when one considers new works on the relationship between high and low culture, comics and fine art. What would for example a novelization of a BD, graphic novel or comic mean? What titles exist in today’s ‘comics aware’ culture and is there a forgotten tradition to discover? What codes, practices, themes and narrative techniques are significant for novelizations of text-image source texts?
There is a small but significant discussion on Chabon’s Kavalier and Clay (2001), or Jay Cantor’s Krazy Kat (1994) as well as Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), but not much on Tom de Have’s Funny Papers (1985), Frederic Teuten’s Tintin in the New World (1993), Rick Moody’s Ice Storm (1994), Austin Grossman’s Soon I will be invincible (2007). More work is clearly needed, including on lost Anglophone texts, as well as sites from other cultural traditions.
We certainly need also to start to evaluate Francophone and other non-Anglophone examples. Do the novelists who also work with BD separate out their two fields of activity or work with more intermedial techniques? For example does Jean Teulé’s Bord Cadrage (2009) work as a complex play between forms? Not to mention work from Harry Morgan (alias Christian Wahl), who is a novelist, BD writer and theorist of comics. And what about the growing importance of Ludovic Debeurme, Benoit Peeters, François Rivière, Willy Mouele, and Joann Sfar? All of whom are working in spaces that sit between traditional fiction and the world of the comics. What about the novels in other languages? In Italian (e.g. Umberto Eco’s La Misteriosa Fiamma de la regina Loanna, 2004)? In Dutch? Spanish? German? Japanese? Also, if the comics world is dominated by male writers and male fans, are there women writers interested in subverting these phallocentric comics in their novels?
We invite papers on any aspect of this research question, including treatments of single authors or comparative works, theoretical engagements with underlying narratological and text-image questions, as well as cross-national expansions of the sense of the field. No special consideration is given for any cultural space, we encourage originality Similarly papers on the pre-existing tradition of children’s literature and its adaptation strategies are welcome such as Dave Eggers’s novelisation of Where the Wild Things are.
Length & Deadlines:
400-500 Word Abstracts are invited for 30 September 2014
4000-5000 word essays to be completed after editorial selection for January 30 2015
The text will be published in a special issue of Image & Narrative after the traditional double blind review process.
Language: English or French
Contact editors, Hugo Frey (h.frey@chi.ac.uk) and Chris Reyns-Chikuma (reynschi@ualberta.ca)
Chris Reyns-Chikuma
MLCS
University of Alberta
Canada
Email: reynschi@ualberta.ca
Friday, June 13, 2014
IJoCA Spring 2014 Out Now
The latest number of the International Journal of Comic Art, 16.1 for Spring 2014, arrived earlier this month coming in at a hefty 590 pages. Full contents to be posted as soon as they are made available.
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