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In addition to the three panels that the Comics and Graphic Narrative Forum will be sponsoring at MLA 2025,  there will be a number of other comics-related panels at the conference. Comment on this post if you have any sessions to add. MLA 2025 Panels Featuring Papers on Comics: Thursday, 1/9 26. Samuel Delaney and the Pornographic 177. Women in the Early History of Comics (1800s-1950s) Friday, 1/10 202. Jewish Literature Between the Local and the Transnational 315. Comics on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and Graphic Medicine 363. Out of the Box: Rethinking Southeast Asia through Comics Saturday, 1/11 505. Decolonizing Cuban Visualities: Intersections of Race, Queerness,Read More →

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The Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum will be sponsoring three panels at MLA 2025, 286. Envisioning Racial Futures: Race, Ethnicity, and Speculative Fiction Comics, 493. Louisiana in Graphic Narratives, and 673A. Picturing Political Power in Comics. Also, check out all the other comics-related panels at this year’s conference. 286. Envisioning Racial Futures: Race, Ethnicity, and Speculative Fiction Comics Friday, 10 January 202512:00 PM to 1:15 PMHilton New Orleans Riverside–Salon 3 (First Floor) Presiders:Derek Lee, Wake Forest U William Orchard, Queens College/ CUNY Presentations: 493. Louisiana in Graphic Narratives Saturday, 11 January 202510:15 AM – 11:30 AMHilton New Orleans Riverside — Salon 9 (1st Floor) Presentations: 673A. PicturingRead More →

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In addition to the three panels that the Comics and Graphic Narrative Forum will be sponsoring at MLA 2024,  there will be a number of other comics-related panels at the conference. We will also be hosting an event featuring comic artist Ben Passmore at Partners and Son, a local underground comics and art gallery, on Friday night! Comment on this post if you have any sessions to add. MLA 2024 Panels Featuring Papers on Comics: Thursday, 1/4 37 – New Approaches to Jewishness, Gender, and Power 114 – Indigenous Thought and the Environmental Crisis in Brazil 157 – Trans Joy! 161 – Digital Humanities and Inclusive Pedagogy: Collaborative Construction inRead More →

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The Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum will be sponsoring three panels at MLA 2024, 124. Mapping Spanish and Iberian Comics and Graphic Narratives, 257. Challenge, Ban, Censor: Curtailing Comics, and 596. The Biopolitics of Comics. We will also be hosting an event featuring comic artist Ben Passmore at Partners and Son, a local underground comics and art gallery, on Friday night! Also, check out all the other comics-related panels at this year’s conference. 124. Mapping Spanish and Iberian Comics and Graphic Narratives Thursday, 4 January 20235:15 PM – 6:30 PMMarriott – Grand K (Level 5) Respondent:Joanne Britland, Framingham State U Presentations: 257. Challenge, Ban, Censor:Read More →

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On Friday, January 5 from 7 pm to 9 pm, the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum will be hosting a free event with artist Ben Passmore at Partners and Son, local underground comics and art gallery. Ben Passmore is the author of the ongoing comic book series “Daygloayhole,” as well as the Ignatz Award-winning comic collection “Your Black Friend: and Other Strangers” (Silver Sprocket) He also wrote and illustrated the Eisner Award-winning “Sports Is Hell” (Koyama Press/ Silver Sprocket), and collaborated with Ezra Claytan Daniels on “BTTM FDRS” (Fantagraphics). His forthcoming book, “These Black Arms to Hold You Up,” is a graphic history of sevenRead More →

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The Forum for Comics and Graphic Narratives seeks proposals for a guaranteed special session at the Modern Language Association annual conference to take place in Philadelphia from January 4-7, 2024. During the pandemic, a number of comics appeared that documented individual and collective experiences of COVID while also critiquing the governmental, economic, and social structures that determined such things as access to care and the regulation of bodies. Kendra Boileau and Rich Johnson’s Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology (2021) and Thi Bui and Sarah Mirk’s  In/Vulnerable: Inequity in the Time of Pandemic (2020) captured examples of such work, and showed how comics could not onlyRead More →

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NOTE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO Monday, March 27, 2023 The Forum for Comics and Graphic Narratives seeks proposals for a non-guaranteed special session at the Modern Language Association annual conference to take place in Philadelphia from January 4-7, 2024. Recently comics challenges have been in the news, as school boards and politicians have banned comics like Maus and Gender Queer from library shelves.  Such efforts to curtail comics circulation are not new to comics culture, nor are they limited to the United States.  Given the role of such curtailing in global comics history, comics challenges (calls for a ban), bans (removal of books from shelves), and censorship (editing content orRead More →

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Spanish and Iberian Comics/Graphic Narratives This is a proposal for a collaborative session, jointly organized by the Forum Executive Committees of Comics and Graphic Narratives and 20th and 21st Century Spanish and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Comics and other forms of graphic narrative have been central to Spain’s popular culture for much of the nation’s modern history, including a wide variety of formats such as the nineteenth-century aleluya; political cartoons of the War of 1898; tebeo comics of the mid-twentieth century; the outpouring of political and counterculture comics of late Francoism, the transition to democracy, and the 1980s cultural explosion of the movida; asRead More →

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Francophone Media(na)tions Thursday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 401, JW Marriott Program arranged by the forum LLC Francophone Presiding: Miléna Santoro, George Washington Univ. “Crossing Trenches in Le cœur des batailles by Jean-David Morvan and Igor Kordey: Textual Analysis of ‘La Marne’ (2007) and ‘Verdun’ (2008),” Anne Cirella-Urrutia, Huston-Tillotson Univ. “Frontiers, Conquests, and the (Re)Birth of the Nation: The Rise of the Comics Western in France at the End of Empire,” Eliza Bourque Dandridge, Duke Univ. ” Fast-Forward Massilia: From Claude McKay to Moussu T (e lei Jovents),” Danielle Marx-Scouras, Ohio State Univ., Columbus   Graphic Interventions: Visual Cultures of the Arab World Thursday, 7Read More →