Seattle = tourist attraction! Join us there.

Preparations are well underway for the 127th Annual MLA Convention, to be held 5-8 January 2012 in Seattle, Washington.

We of the Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives, after a very successful slate of panels at the 2011 convention in Los Angeles, are in the thick of planning for 2012—do check out our Calls for Papers for Seattle:

  1. Why Comics Are and Are Not Picture Books (deadline March 12, 2011)
  2. The Material History of Spider-Man
    (deadline March 5, 2011)
  3. How Seattle Changed Comics (deadline March 12, 2011)

Feel free to post comments to this blog or to email Charles Hatfield @ charles[dot]hatfield[at]gmail[dot]com if you have any questions!