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Exhibitions of the 47th Angoulème International Comics Festival: La bande...
Upstairs on the top floor of Angoulème's l'Alpha Mediathèque is an officially designated exhibition room where visitors would logically expect to find, based on the Festival maps and orientation...
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Exhibitions of the 47th Angoulème International Comics Festival: Gunnm L'ange...
The exhibition space on the main floor of the Espace Franquin served as the home to another exhibition devoted to manga, though here the focus was on a singular creation rather than an entire range of...
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ANIMA: The Brussels Animation Film Festival 2020
The annual Brussels Animation Film Festival, officially known as ANIMA, takes place this year over the last two weekends of February, timed perfectly with the Carnival school holidays. Offering a wide...
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART 21-2 is out
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ARTVol. 21, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2019Editor's NotesJohn A. Lent1Encrumbed by the Signifying Monkey: Con Men, Cackling Clowns, and the Exigencies of Desire in the Comics of...
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March 13-22 House of Cheach exhibit in Singapore
IJOCA contributor Lim Cheng Tju has curated an exhibit of Singapore cartoonist Cheah's The House of Lim comic strip.House of CheahCurated by Lim Cheng Tju | Exhibition design by Studio JujuEXHIBITION...
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Exhibition in Photos: Dominique Corbasson: Paris-Londres-New York
Dominique Corbasson: Paris-Londres-New York. Huberty & Breyne Gallery. Brussels. March 13-April 18, 2020.Over the next month, the Huberty & Breyne Gallery is hosting a selling exhibition that...
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Exhibitions of the 47th Angoulème International Comics Festival: Catherine...
Located along the Charente river between the Vaisseau Moëbius and the Musée de la bande dessinée, the Musée du Papier has previously hosted exhibitions that showcase the work of artists associated with...
View ArticleAll Fontanarrosa/Todo Fontanarrosa issue of JILAR journal available now
Journal of Iberian and Latin American ResearchVol. 25, #3, 2019https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjil20/currentAll Fontanarrosa/Todo Fontanarrosa. Guest Editors: María Celina Bortolotto and Annick...
View ArticleSign the Petition: Save Italian Comics Center FRIGOLANDIA
This email was sent to COMIXSCHOLARS-L today; I checked with Gianfranco Goria and he confirms that it's legitimate, so John and I decided to repost it here.I would appreciate it if you could please...
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Wisconsin Funnies Shows Comic’s Deep Roots in the American Midwest: A Review
by Chris YogerstWisconsin Funnies: Fifty Years of Comics.James P. Danky, J. Tyler Friedman, and Denis Kitchen with contributions by Paul Buhle. West Bend, WI: Museum of Wisconsin Art and Milwaukee, WI:...
View ArticleIJOCA CFP for winter issue, from John Lent
Call for Conference PapersAs some of you know, many papers that were published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART during the past nearly 22 years have come out of conferences. Often, I solicited the...
View ArticleLong-form Webcomics in Southeast Asia panel by IJOCA contributor CT Lim
Long-form Webcomics in Southeast Asia Moderated by CT Lim, Southeast Asian comics scholar and editor Panelists: Reimena Yee (Malaysia), Erica Eng (Malaysia), Ann Maulina (Indonesia), Eurika Gho...
View ArticleCFP Libraries/Archives/Librarians in comics
Friend of the blog, librarian Rob Weiner, is working on a new book.Call for Essays: Libraries, Archives, and Librarians in Graphic Novels, Comic Strips and Sequential Art edited by Carrye Syma, Donell...
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Book Review: Ms. Marvel’s America: No Normal
by Matthew TeutschJessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid (eds.) Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. 280 pp. 978-1496827012, $30....
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New Issue of IJOCA is out - 22-1 Spring/Summer 2020 table of contents
Cultural Imperialism Strikes Back: A South American Symposium Cultural Imperialism Strikes Back: A South American SymposiumMartin Alejandro Salinas and Sebastian Horacio Gago2One World, Many Batmen:...
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Angouleme 2020 in Photos #4: 30 Years of L'Association
By Gerald HengExhibits in Angouleme are generally comprehensive, overwhelming, crowded and only in French. Mr. Heng has braved the crowds to provide us with snapshots of the Festival so our readers...
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Film Review: "I Am Still Your Child" featuring cartoonist Von Allan
Von AllanI Am Still Your Child. Megan Durnford (writer/director). CatBird Films, 2018. 45:00. <http://iamstillyourchild.com/> Lim Cheng Tju / CT LimAs a genre, graphic medicine is on the...
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Book Review - Pearl Jam: Art of Do the Evolution
Pearson, Rob. Pearl Jam: Art of Do the Evolution. San Diego: IDW Publishing, 2020. 158 pp. US $39.99 ISBN 978-1-63140-741-3Reviewed by Cord A. Scott, UMGC-KoreaMedia often influence other forms of...
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Book review - The Wakanda Files. A Technological Exploration of the Avengers...
Benjamin, Troy. The Wakanda Files. A Technological Exploration of the Avengers and Beyond. Epic Ink, 2020. 160 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7603-6544-1. $60.00. reviewed by Aaron RickerTroy Benjamin is the...
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Book Review - Menopause: A Comic Treatment
All images courtesy of Penn State University Pressreviewed byJanis Be Breckenridge, Whitman CollegeCzerwiec, MK, ed. Menopause: A Comic Treatment, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press,...
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