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
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
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.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
More on ComiXolgy
Here are some more reports on the comiXology situation. The comments are particularly interesting.
Comixology cuts Apple, Google out of digital-comics kickback (26 April 2014):
http://www.cnet.com/news/comixology-cuts-apple-google-out-of-digital-comics-kickback/
and
ComiXology ceases iOS in-app purchases following Amazon acquisition (26 April 2014):
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/04/26/comixology-ceases-ios-in-app-purchases-following-amazon-acquisition
Comixology cuts Apple, Google out of digital-comics kickback (26 April 2014):
http://www.cnet.com/news/comixology-cuts-apple-google-out-of-digital-comics-kickback/
and
ComiXology ceases iOS in-app purchases following Amazon acquisition (26 April 2014):
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/04/26/comixology-ceases-ios-in-app-purchases-following-amazon-acquisition
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
comiXology Updates
Earlier this month it was announced that Amazon had acquired the comiXology digital comics store. The first move towards its integration into Amazon was the site's severing of its ties to Apple with the release of a comics reader app to replace its (now) non-functional storefront app. Further details from these two articles on The Beat:
Amazon removes ability to buy comics through Comixology app to cut out Apple (26 April 2014):
http://comicsbeat.com/amazon-removes-ability-to-buy-comics-through-comixology-app-to-cut-out-apple/
and
New ComiXology: Publishers can run their storefront apps for now (28 April 2014):
http://comicsbeat.com/new-comixology-publishers-can-run-their-storefront-apps-for-now/.
Amazon removes ability to buy comics through Comixology app to cut out Apple (26 April 2014):
http://comicsbeat.com/amazon-removes-ability-to-buy-comics-through-comixology-app-to-cut-out-apple/
and
New ComiXology: Publishers can run their storefront apps for now (28 April 2014):
http://comicsbeat.com/new-comixology-publishers-can-run-their-storefront-apps-for-now/.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
CFP Comics and Graphic Narratives (5/15/14; PAMLA 10/31-11/2/14)
112th Annual Conference - Riverside Convention Center, California
Friday, October 31 - Sunday, November 2, 2014
Comics and Graphic Narratives
Presiding Officer:
Dawn Dietrich, Western Washington University
Status:
Open (accepting submissions)
Associated Sessions
Comics and Graphic Narratives
Topic Type:
Standing Session
- See more at: http://www.pamla.org/2014/topics/comics-and-graphic-narratives#sthash.5RZjfgiG.dpuf
Friday, October 31 - Sunday, November 2, 2014
Comics and Graphic Narratives
Presiding Officer:
Dawn Dietrich, Western Washington University
Status:
Open (accepting submissions)
Associated Sessions
Comics and Graphic Narratives
Topic Type:
Standing Session
- See more at: http://www.pamla.org/2014/topics/comics-and-graphic-narratives#sthash.5RZjfgiG.dpuf
CFP Webcomics (5/15/14; PAMLA 10/31-11/2/14)
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
112th Annual Conference - Riverside Convention Center, California
Friday, October 31 - Sunday, November 2, 2014
Webcomics: A New Media Canon?
Presiding Officer:
Christopher Kuipers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Are there webcomic classics and canons now? How have webcomics reinvented cartoons since McCloud’s Reinventing Comics? What about new frontiers of the infinite canvas—vlogging, crowdsourcing, fanon? Do webcomics complicate the age of late print (e.g., Kickstarter)? Proposals sought on individual webcomics, creators, or general trends in webcomics’ contemporary literary history.
Status:
Open (accepting submissions)
Associated Sessions
Webcomics: A New Media Canon?
Topic Type:
Special Session
- See more at: http://www.pamla.org/2014/topics/webcomics-new-media-canon#sthash.O5cuUQwn.dpuf
112th Annual Conference - Riverside Convention Center, California
Friday, October 31 - Sunday, November 2, 2014
Webcomics: A New Media Canon?
Presiding Officer:
Christopher Kuipers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Are there webcomic classics and canons now? How have webcomics reinvented cartoons since McCloud’s Reinventing Comics? What about new frontiers of the infinite canvas—vlogging, crowdsourcing, fanon? Do webcomics complicate the age of late print (e.g., Kickstarter)? Proposals sought on individual webcomics, creators, or general trends in webcomics’ contemporary literary history.
Status:
Open (accepting submissions)
Associated Sessions
Webcomics: A New Media Canon?
Topic Type:
Special Session
- See more at: http://www.pamla.org/2014/topics/webcomics-new-media-canon#sthash.O5cuUQwn.dpuf
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Riddle Me This, Batman!
On my wish list: Riddle Me This, Batman! : Essays on the Universe of the Dark Knight
Edited by Kevin K. Durand and Mary K. Leigh
Published by McFarland
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4629-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8731-8
notes, bibliographies, index
228pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2011
Price $40.00
About the Book
From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has never been far from the American consciousness. The character shaped the way we read comics and graphic novels, view motion pictures, and analyze the motifs of the Hero, the Anti-Hero and the Villain. He has also captured the scholarly imagination, telling us much about our society and ourselves. These essays examine how Batman is both the canvas on which our cultural identity is painted, and the Eternal Other that informs our own journeys of understanding. Questions relating to a wide range of disciplines—philosophy, literature, psychology, pop culture, and more—are thoroughly and entertainingly explored, in a manner that will appeal both to scholars and to fans of the Caped Crusader alike.
About the Editors
Kevin K. Durand is the dean of academics at the LISA Academy College Preparatory School in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has published broadly in philosophy, religion, and ethics. Mary K. Leigh is a doctoral academy fellow at the University of Arkansas.
Table of Contents
Preface
MARY K. LEIGH 1
Introduction: What Has Adorno to Do with Gotham?
KEVIN K. DURAND 3
Part One: The Ethics and Anarchy of Batman
1. Virtue in Gotham: Aristotle’s Batman
MARY K. LEIGH 17
2. The Dark Knight Errant: Power and Authority in Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
CHRISTOPHER BUNDRICK 24
3. Why Adam West Matters: Camp and Classical Virtue
KEVIN K. DURAND 41
4. Dark Knight, White Knight, and the King of Anarchy
STEPHANIE CARMICHAEL 54
5. Introducing a Little Anarchy: The Dark Knight and Power Structures on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
SUDIPTO SANYAL 70
Part Two: Batman and Literary Theory
6. Batman’s Canon: Hybridity and the Interpretation of the Superhero
KEVIN K. DURAND 81
7. Seminar on the Purloined Batarang: Batman and Lacan
MITCH FRYE 93
8. Queer Matters in The Dark Knight Returns: Why We Insist on a Sexual Identity for Batman
JENEE WILDE 104
9. The Hero We Read: The Dark Knight, Popular Allegoresis, and Blockbuster Ideology
ANDREA COMISKEY 124
10. Rolling the Boulder in Gotham
RANDY DUNCAN 147
11. Figuration of the Superheroic Revolutionary: The Dark Knight of Negation
D. T. KOFOED 156
Part Three: Batman and Beyond
12. "One May Smile, and Smile, and Be a Villain": Grim Humor and the Warrior Ethos
MELANIE WILSON 169
13. "And Doesn’t All the World Love a Clown?": Finding the Joker and the Representation of His Evil
MICHAEL SMITH 187
14. Call It (Friendo): Flipism and Folklore in No Country for Old Men and The Dark Knight
MATTHEW FOTIS 201
About the Contributors 219
Index 221
CFP Dick Grayson Collection (8/31/14)
This sounds like a really cool idea:
75 Years of Dick Grayson (Robin, Nightwing, Batman) - 31 August 2014
full name / name of organization:
Kristen Geaman - University of Toledo
contact email:
kgeaman@gmail.com
Book Project
To date, there has not been a single scholarly book published on Dick Grayson, the original Robin who grew up to become the hero Nightwing and serve as Batman. In conjunction with Grayson’s 75th anniversary in 2015, this book seeks to examine any and all aspects of Grayson as an influential comic book character and cultural icon.
We welcome contributions from all scholarly fields, including history, literature, psychology, philosophy, art, art history, cultural studies, media studies, and more.
Given that this project is the first of its kind, the range of topics is extremely broad. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
-Dick's influence on the development of comic book conventions (especially as the original kid sidekick)
-Dick in comic-book art
-Dick's role as leader
-Dick's relationships with other heroes (Bats, Titans, JLA, etc)
*We are especially looking for an article about Dick and his relationship with Barbara Gordon
-Dick in the New 52
-Dick and his fans (who they are, why he might have more female fans than Batman, etc)
-Dick and representation (especially the ret-con that gave him Romani heritage)
-Dick in fanart, fanfiction, and/or cosplay
-Dick in non-print media
-Dick and his villains
-cosplay
-looking at Dick through any number of theoretical lens: gender theory, queer theory, etc.
-Dick and philosophy, psychology, etc
Please contact Kristen Geaman (kgeaman@gmail.com) for more information. Currently, we hope to have first drafts written by the end of August 2014. That will give us time to circulate them among the participants before we write final drafts.
By web submission at 04/18/2014 - 16:20
75 Years of Dick Grayson (Robin, Nightwing, Batman) - 31 August 2014
full name / name of organization:
Kristen Geaman - University of Toledo
contact email:
kgeaman@gmail.com
Book Project
To date, there has not been a single scholarly book published on Dick Grayson, the original Robin who grew up to become the hero Nightwing and serve as Batman. In conjunction with Grayson’s 75th anniversary in 2015, this book seeks to examine any and all aspects of Grayson as an influential comic book character and cultural icon.
We welcome contributions from all scholarly fields, including history, literature, psychology, philosophy, art, art history, cultural studies, media studies, and more.
Given that this project is the first of its kind, the range of topics is extremely broad. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
-Dick's influence on the development of comic book conventions (especially as the original kid sidekick)
-Dick in comic-book art
-Dick's role as leader
-Dick's relationships with other heroes (Bats, Titans, JLA, etc)
*We are especially looking for an article about Dick and his relationship with Barbara Gordon
-Dick in the New 52
-Dick and his fans (who they are, why he might have more female fans than Batman, etc)
-Dick and representation (especially the ret-con that gave him Romani heritage)
-Dick in fanart, fanfiction, and/or cosplay
-Dick in non-print media
-Dick and his villains
-cosplay
-looking at Dick through any number of theoretical lens: gender theory, queer theory, etc.
-Dick and philosophy, psychology, etc
Please contact Kristen Geaman (kgeaman@gmail.com) for more information. Currently, we hope to have first drafts written by the end of August 2014. That will give us time to circulate them among the participants before we write final drafts.
By web submission at 04/18/2014 - 16:20
Sunday, November 17, 2013
CFP Panels of Research Society for American Periodicals
A head's up courtesy the American Literature Association (pdf at http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/2014%20RSAP%20CFP.pdf):
NOTE SEPARATE DEADLINES FOR EACH CALL
American Literature Association
May 22-25, 2014
Washington, D.C.
Research Society for American Periodicals
Call for Papers
RSAP seeks proposals for the American Literature Association’s 25th Annual Conference, 22-25 May 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C.
Proposals are requested for the following:
1. War and/in American Periodicals after 1914
As spaces of dialogue and dissent, American periodicals have played a formative role in the negotiation of war’s meaning in American culture. This panel seeks 15-20–minute papers that might address any aspect of this topic, including but not limited to: seriality and war; soldier newspapers; trench journalism; periodicals and the home front; fictional representations of war in periodicals; periodicals as spaces for dialogue and dissent about war; anti-war publications; responses to war in black periodicals; war in visual culture; the imagined communities of wartime America; literary style and war correspondence; etc. Please email 300-word abstract and C.V. to Amanda Gailey at gailey@unl.edu by December 15, 2013; please put “RSAP panel submission” in the subject line.
2. “Graphic Humor in American Periodicals”
Abstracts (300 words max.) are encouraged on subjects addressing “graphic humor” in American periodicals. Subjects could range from cartoon strips to political cartoons to illustrations, and may include
alternative interpretations of the term “graphic.” Papers should focus on the periodical context of the subject, as well as broader concerns of interpreting humor. This panel is co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals. Please e-mail abstracts no later than January 10, 2014 to Tracy Wuster (wustert@gmail.com) with the subject line: “AHSA/RSAP session, 2014 ALA.” Notifications will go out no later than January 20, 2014.
NOTE SEPARATE DEADLINES FOR EACH CALL
American Literature Association
May 22-25, 2014
Washington, D.C.
Research Society for American Periodicals
Call for Papers
RSAP seeks proposals for the American Literature Association’s 25th Annual Conference, 22-25 May 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C.
Proposals are requested for the following:
1. War and/in American Periodicals after 1914
As spaces of dialogue and dissent, American periodicals have played a formative role in the negotiation of war’s meaning in American culture. This panel seeks 15-20–minute papers that might address any aspect of this topic, including but not limited to: seriality and war; soldier newspapers; trench journalism; periodicals and the home front; fictional representations of war in periodicals; periodicals as spaces for dialogue and dissent about war; anti-war publications; responses to war in black periodicals; war in visual culture; the imagined communities of wartime America; literary style and war correspondence; etc. Please email 300-word abstract and C.V. to Amanda Gailey at gailey@unl.edu by December 15, 2013; please put “RSAP panel submission” in the subject line.
2. “Graphic Humor in American Periodicals”
Abstracts (300 words max.) are encouraged on subjects addressing “graphic humor” in American periodicals. Subjects could range from cartoon strips to political cartoons to illustrations, and may include
alternative interpretations of the term “graphic.” Papers should focus on the periodical context of the subject, as well as broader concerns of interpreting humor. This panel is co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals. Please e-mail abstracts no later than January 10, 2014 to Tracy Wuster (wustert@gmail.com) with the subject line: “AHSA/RSAP session, 2014 ALA.” Notifications will go out no later than January 20, 2014.
Friday, November 15, 2013
IJoCa Spring 2013 Contents
As promised a while ago, here are the contents for the Spring number of IJoCA:
| Vol. 15, No. 1, 2013 |
| 504 pages / 24 Articles |
| John A. Lent | 1 | Editor’s Note |
| Mark McKinney | 2 | Les mésaventures de M. Bêton by Léonce Petit: Reflexivity and Satire in an Early French Comic Book Inspired by Rodolphe Töpffer |
| Lara Saguisag | 35 | The “Secret Tracts” of the Child’s Mind: Theorizing Childhood in Early 20th Century Fantasy Strips |
| Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste | 68 | Súper Cholita and Bolivian Comics: In Search of Cultural and Political Hegemony |
| Ryan Prout | 84 | Mapping Neuro-diverse Alterity in “Social and Sensitive” Comics from Spain |
| Iwan Gunawan | 100 | Multiculturalism in Indonesian Comics |
| Uri Fink | 127 | Comics in Israel -- A Brief History |
| Amy Bright | 146 | Evaluating Text and Image Ratios in Contemporary Young Adult Literature |
| Muliyadi Mahamood | 163 | Pioneers in Comic Art Scholarship Cartoon and Comics Scholarship in Malaysia: A Personal Experience |
| Scott Hales | 197 | “Operation Replica?!!”: Captain America in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction |
| Tsugumi Okabe | 230 | From Sherlock Holmes to “Heisei” Holmes: Counter Orientalism and Post Modern Parody in Gosho Aoyama’s Detective Conan Manga Series |
| Michael Rhode | 251 | Ann Telnaes at the 2011 Small Press Expo |
| Jakob F. Dittmar | 270 | Comics and History: Myth-making in Nazi references |
| Keegan Lannon | 287 | Visualizing Words: The Function of Words in Comics |
| Muhamad Azhar Abdullah | 306 | The Development of Malaysia Comic Art |
| Richard Scully | 323 | The Lion and the Unicorn -- William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli through William Empson’s Looking-Glass |
| Anita K. McDaniel | 338 | Obama-man: The Fanboy Ideograph for “Hope and Change” |
| Sebastian Weinert | 354 | Funny Education? Cartoons and Illustrated Stories as Media of Health Instruction in Weimar Germany |
| Jeremy Stoll | 363 | A Creator’s History of the Comics Medium in India |
| Sylvain Rheault | 383 | Japanese Culture in Franco-Belgian Bande Dessinée |
| Jon LaCure | 395 | CLAMP, the Magic Knights, and Art Nouveau |
| Jade Hidle | 408 | Remembering in Red and Yellow: History, Memory, and Second-Generation Vietnamese American Identity in GB Tran’s VIETNAMERICA |
| Anna Wiederhold | 419 | The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation: Making Meaning in the (Gutter) Spaces between Word, Image, and Ideology |
| Fauzi Naeim bin Mohamed | 435 | The Aesthetics of Oppression in Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza |
| Eric A. Holmes | 450 | The Horror and Humor of Entertaining Comics |
| John Baird | 456 | Evaluating Math Concept Learning Using Comics |
| John A. Lent | 469 | The Printed Word |
| Dale E. Seeds, John A. Lent | 472 | Book Reviews |
| Edited by Michael Rhode, David Robertson, Michael Rhode | 480 | Exhibition and Media Reviews |
| 489 | Portfolio |
IJoCA Fall 2013
The Fall 2013 number of IJoCa is now available. Volume 15, Number 2 of the journal features nearly 800 pages of essays and reviews. Contents will be posted here as/if they become available.
CFP Spec Issue on Comics, Multimodality, and Composition (8/1/14)
Thanks to IAFA for the head's up:
For 43.1 (Spring 2015)
Guest Editor: Dale Jacobs, University of Windsor
DESCRIPTION
Over the past ten years, composition has increasingly embraced writing and reading in multiple modes (words, but also images, sounds, video, spatial relationships, gestures, and other sign systems). In this movement towards multimodality, comics have been largely ignored. Comics, however, provide rich ground for exploration in relation to multimodality and composition. This special issue begins with the idea that comics are a valuable space of practice for multimodal literacies, both inside and outside the classroom.
Like other multimodal texts, comics form a multifaceted environment in which meaning is negotiated between creators and readers. Comics add another dimension to multimodality, which has often focused on digital texts, and can be used to link traditional alphabetic literacies with newer digital ones. Furthermore, as Michael Bitz argues in When Commas Meet Kryptonite: Classroom Lessons from the Comic Book Project, “In the context of new media and literacies, comics are a rare bridge between the canon of reading skills that children are expected to master in school and the literacies that they embrace on their own and out of school” (11). Not only are comics important multimodal texts in their own right, but they can also function as an important bridge to other literacies both inside and outside the classroom.
This special issue of Composition Studies will explore how comics can be productively used in writing theory and practice. Articles, sequential narratives, short reflective essays, and Course Designs are all welcome, as are pieces on comics aimed at the “Composing With” section of the journal.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Full-length submissions due August 1, 2014
Submission determinations sent by November 1, 2014
Revised manuscripts due February 13, 2015
CONTACTS
Direct queries about the special issue and full-length manuscripts in .doc
or .docx formats to Dale Jacobs at djacobs@uwindsor.ca.
Direct general questions about Composition Studies to compstudies@uc.edu.
Visit our website for more information:
http://www.uc.edu/journals/composition-studies.html.
——————————
Laura Micciche
Associate Professor of English
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221
513.556/6519
laura.micciche@uc.edu
CFP for Special Issue of Composition Studies
Theme: Comics, Multimodality, and CompositionFor 43.1 (Spring 2015)
Guest Editor: Dale Jacobs, University of Windsor
DESCRIPTION
Over the past ten years, composition has increasingly embraced writing and reading in multiple modes (words, but also images, sounds, video, spatial relationships, gestures, and other sign systems). In this movement towards multimodality, comics have been largely ignored. Comics, however, provide rich ground for exploration in relation to multimodality and composition. This special issue begins with the idea that comics are a valuable space of practice for multimodal literacies, both inside and outside the classroom.
Like other multimodal texts, comics form a multifaceted environment in which meaning is negotiated between creators and readers. Comics add another dimension to multimodality, which has often focused on digital texts, and can be used to link traditional alphabetic literacies with newer digital ones. Furthermore, as Michael Bitz argues in When Commas Meet Kryptonite: Classroom Lessons from the Comic Book Project, “In the context of new media and literacies, comics are a rare bridge between the canon of reading skills that children are expected to master in school and the literacies that they embrace on their own and out of school” (11). Not only are comics important multimodal texts in their own right, but they can also function as an important bridge to other literacies both inside and outside the classroom.
This special issue of Composition Studies will explore how comics can be productively used in writing theory and practice. Articles, sequential narratives, short reflective essays, and Course Designs are all welcome, as are pieces on comics aimed at the “Composing With” section of the journal.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Comics as a way to connect reading and composing multimodal texts
- Comics literacies and digital literacies.
- Comics in relation to the NCTE Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies,
- the WPA Outcomes Statement, and/or the Framework for Success in
- Postsecondary Writing.
- Comics and/as collaboration.
- Comics, rhetoric, and the teaching of writing.
- Comics theory and the teaching of writing.
- Comics as a way to examine how students conceive and experience literacies
- outside of school and possible connections to school literacies.
- Specific ways to use comics in the composition classroom.
- Examinations of how Comics Studies can inform Composition Studies and vice versa
Full-length submissions due August 1, 2014
Submission determinations sent by November 1, 2014
Revised manuscripts due February 13, 2015
CONTACTS
Direct queries about the special issue and full-length manuscripts in .doc
or .docx formats to Dale Jacobs at djacobs@uwindsor.ca.
Direct general questions about Composition Studies to compstudies@uc.edu.
Visit our website for more information:
http://www.uc.edu/journals/composition-studies.html.
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Laura Micciche
Associate Professor of English
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221
513.556/6519
laura.micciche@uc.edu
CFP Panel on Marvel Cinematic Universe (12/1/13)
Here's an older CFP, and I'm not sure why I never posted it before:
An Examination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
An Examination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
| Location: | Florida, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2013-12-01 (in 16 days) |
| Date Submitted: | 2013-05-30 |
| Announcement ID: | 204172 |
| Since its Silver Age rebirth, Marvel Comics has been a focal point of
comic book fandom. Often casted as the upstart company in comparison to
DC Comics, Marvel’s cultural weight and economic success has been tied
to 1960s political protest and social anxiety. For more than 50 years
Marvel’s emphasis on “real word concerns’ in its stories has generated
fan engagement and popular appeal. In the new millennium the
establishment of its own movie studio has allowed the “House of Ideas”
to have a wider cultural impact in the United States and around the
world. While scholars have examined Marvel characters in print, less
consideration has been given to the implication of live action adaptions
from Marvel’s cinematic universe. I seeking scholars for panel for the forthcoming 54th Annula Florida Conference of Historian meeting in St. Augustine, Florida (Jan 31st-Feb 1st, 2014). This panel will examine the ways the Marvel Cinematic Universe represents, constructs, and distorts American culture. Papers that examine specific characters, themes, or films are welcome. Paper title and abstract/proposal (200-300 words) 1. Brief vita or biography (one page max) 2. Complete personal information: name, department, academic affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address. Abstracts should be sent to Julian C. Chambliss: jchambliss@rollins.edu Deadline for submission is December 1, 2013 |
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Julian C. Chambliss
Rollins College Email: jchambliss@rollins.edu |
CFP Comics Area SWPACA (11/15/13)
Again, sorry for the late post:
CFP-Graphic Novels and Comics SWPCA 2014
CFP-Graphic Novels and Comics SWPCA 2014
| Location: | New Mexico, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2013-11-15 |
| Date Submitted: | 2013-09-17 |
| Announcement ID: | 206713 |
Call for Papers and Presentations: Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture- SWPACA 2014 Southwest/American Popular Culture and American Culture Association http://southwestpca.org/ Make plans to join the Southwest PCA/ACA for our 35th annual conference, February 19-22, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center in beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico Hyatt Regency Albuquerque 330 Tijeras NW Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 87102 Tel: +1 505 842 1234 or 888-421-1442 The conference theme this year is: Popular and American Culture Studies: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow The area chair seeks papers/presentations on Graphic Novels and Comics and Popular Culture due on November 1st, 2013. Any aspect of Comics and Graphic Novels in Popular Culture will be considered, but particular attention will be paid to those presentations that discuss distinctive American aspects of comics and graphic novels in the context of history and the content. Answering such questions as: Why is the superhero as we know it today a uniquely American creation? Why is the birth of the comics industry tied to the Jewish American experience? Does the Americanism of comics and graphic novels have anything to say to the world today or do other styles such as manga, Bande dessinée, or fumetto have more of an impact today? Possible panel/discussion topics:
Other topics:
Please send a title and 100- to 250-word abstract by November 1st 2013. Please submit your paper title and 100- to 250-word abstract by November 1, 2013, through our database, which can be accessed at: http://conference2014.southwestpca.org/ A video tutorial for submissions is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSITP_57txc. Please note there are monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. See http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards The organization also has a new open access peer reviewed journal that encourages you to submit your work. See: Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy http://journaldialogue.org/ 35th Annual Conference Southwest Popular/American Culture Association February 19-22 2014 annual conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Submission Deadline: 11/1/13 Priority Registration Deadline 12/31/13 Conference Hotel: Hyatt Regency Albuquerque 330 Tijeras NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 87102 Tel: +1 505 842 1234 or 888-421-1442 Rob Weiner Humanities Librarian, Texas Tech University Library rweiner5@sbcglobal.net http://southwestpca.org/ |
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Rob Weiner
Texas Tech University Library Box 40002 Lubbock Texas 79409 Email: rob.weiner@ttu.edu Visit the website at http://southwestpca.org |
CFP Comics Arts Conference WonderCon 2014 (12/15/13)
Comics Arts Conference WonderCon 2014
| Location: | California, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2014-12-15 |
| Date Submitted: | 2013-10-28 |
| Announcement ID: | 208030 |
| 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a
critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in
sequence) are being accepted for the Comics Arts Conference, a meeting
of scholars and professionals at WonderCon 2014 in Anaheim. WonderCon
is an annual popular culture convention organized by Comic-Con
International. The CAC seeks proposals from a broad range of
disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation
of academic and independent scholars. The CAC is designed to bring
together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historians to
engage in discussion of the comics medium in a forum that included the
public. Please submit all proposals to
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BZ8XV9N by December 15, 2013. For more
information, please contact Dr. Kathleen McClancy at
comicsartsconference@gmail.com. Dr. Kathleen McClancy Primary Organizer and Co-Chair Comics Arts Conference Email: comicsartsconference@gmail.com Visit the website at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BZ8XV9N |
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Hickman's Avengers
As part of the Marvel NOW! relaunching of the Avengers franchise, Jonathan Hickman offers an engaging rebirth of the Avengers team in the new Avengers title, and he comments in depth on his vision in a December 2012 interview on Newsarama at http://www.newsarama.com/10587-jonathan-hickman-brings-the-world-to-marvel-now-avengers.html.
So far. the series has been collected into two hardcover editions: Avenger's World and The Last White Event. The story thus far is reminiscent of aspects of Warren Ellis's oeuvre and offers, in part, an incorporation of Marvel's New Universe (last revived by Ellis) within the Marvel NOW! Marvel Universe. The collected editions include numbers 1 through 11 of the series and are an entertaining read, for the most part; however, the series falters a bit towards the end of volume 2 and grinds to a halt with the (apparently) unrelated and very mundane story in issue 11. Based on the ending, I'm not sure I'll pick up volume 3.
Monday, September 9, 2013
CFP Illustrated Gothic (12/31/13)
Just posted the following to the Popular Preternaturaliana blog:
Special Issue of Studies in Gothic Fiction: The Illustrated Gothic: Comics, Graphic Novels and Popular Culture
Complete details at http://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/2013/09/cfp-illustrated-gothic-spec-issue-123013.html.
Michael Torregrossa
Special Issue of Studies in Gothic Fiction: The Illustrated Gothic: Comics, Graphic Novels and Popular Culture
Complete details at http://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/2013/09/cfp-illustrated-gothic-spec-issue-123013.html.
Michael Torregrossa
CFP Tintin Conference (10/31/13)
The Adventures of Tintin (symposium)
full name / name of organization:
University College London
contact email:
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Tintin and Hergé
Tintin and comic book history
Tintin and detective fiction
Tintin and the adventure story
Tintin in translation
Censorship of Tintin
Tintin’s spinoffs
Tintin in adaptations
Tintin in films
Tintin fan culture
Tintin and geography
Tintin and travel
Tintin as cultural phenomenon
Travel and colonialism
Treatment of race in Tintin
Snowy as sidekick
Animal welfare
EcoTintin
Tintin and gender
Tintin and masculinity; homosocial relations
Tintin in criticism
Submission Guidelines:
1. Submission deadline for abstracts (400 words) and a short biography (150 words) for your 20-minute presentation: 31 October 2013.
2. Please do not send documents as attachments.
Kindly submit abstracts to the organizers at tintinat85@outlook.com.
CFP Comics at PCA (11/1/13)
Here's the annual CFP for PCA/ACA:
All Proposals and Abstracts Must Be Submitted Through The PCA Database.
Please submit a proposal to only one area at a time. Exceptions and rules
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Comics and Comic Art Area of the Popular Culture Association invites all comics scholars to participate in the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association. Details of the conference can be found at the conference website.
The Comics and Comic Art Area of the Popular Culture Association offers a venue for scholars from across the country to share their research and exchange ideas on the growing field of comics scholarship. Papers on all aspects of the medium are invited.
Past papers have covered mainstream, underground, and international comics; cartoons, comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels; comics in connection with film, television, and video games; writers, artists, and publishers; teaching comics at various levels; and writing and publishing comics scholarship.
This call asks for individual paper proposals or submissions for entire panels. If you are submitting a panel, please make sure to note the members of your panel. In addition to general papers, if a presenter would like to propose a special panel or roundtable discussion, please e-mail the chair so she can forward the request to the list and the Comics and Comic Art Facebook group. (All interested scholars are welcome to join the group.)
Papers should be delivered in 15-20 minutes. The PCA limits presenters to one paper given at the conference, so if you are interested in presenting a paper in the Comics and Comic Art Area, do not submit a paper to another area.
All participants are eligible for the annual Inge Award for Comics Scholarship, awarded to the top paper presented in the Comics and Comic Art Area of the PCA. Student participants are eligible for the Lent Award for Comics Scholarship, awarded to the top paper presented by a student in the Comics and Comic Art Area of the PCA.
Scholars interested in presenting a paper at the national conference should submit a 100-200 word abstract and a short introductory bio to the PCA Database.
Please send all inquires to:
Terence Wandtke
Film and Digital Media
Judson University
twandtke@judsonu.edu
Comics and Comic Art
All Proposals and Abstracts Must Be Submitted Through The PCA Database.
Please submit a proposal to only one area at a time. Exceptions and rules
CALL FOR PAPERS
Comics: Strips, Books, Graphic Novels and Everything in Between
The Comics and Comic Art Area of the Popular Culture Association invites all comics scholars to participate in the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association. Details of the conference can be found at the conference website.
The Comics and Comic Art Area of the Popular Culture Association offers a venue for scholars from across the country to share their research and exchange ideas on the growing field of comics scholarship. Papers on all aspects of the medium are invited.
Past papers have covered mainstream, underground, and international comics; cartoons, comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels; comics in connection with film, television, and video games; writers, artists, and publishers; teaching comics at various levels; and writing and publishing comics scholarship.
This call asks for individual paper proposals or submissions for entire panels. If you are submitting a panel, please make sure to note the members of your panel. In addition to general papers, if a presenter would like to propose a special panel or roundtable discussion, please e-mail the chair so she can forward the request to the list and the Comics and Comic Art Facebook group. (All interested scholars are welcome to join the group.)
Papers should be delivered in 15-20 minutes. The PCA limits presenters to one paper given at the conference, so if you are interested in presenting a paper in the Comics and Comic Art Area, do not submit a paper to another area.
All participants are eligible for the annual Inge Award for Comics Scholarship, awarded to the top paper presented in the Comics and Comic Art Area of the PCA. Student participants are eligible for the Lent Award for Comics Scholarship, awarded to the top paper presented by a student in the Comics and Comic Art Area of the PCA.
Scholars interested in presenting a paper at the national conference should submit a 100-200 word abstract and a short introductory bio to the PCA Database.
Please send all inquires to:
Terence Wandtke
Film and Digital Media
Judson University
twandtke@judsonu.edu
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