Comic Art & Comics

Comic Art and Comics Area

***Call For Papers ***

The Comic Art & Comics 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 to be held in April, 2009, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the New Orleans Marriott.  Details of the conference can be found at the conference website <www.pcaaca.org>.

The Comic Art & Comics Area of the Popular Culture Association offers a chance for scholars from across the country to share their research and exchange ideas on the growing field of comics scholarship.  Graduate students and those without current academic affiliation are also welcome.  Papers on all aspects of the medium are invited.  Past papers have covered mainstream comic books, underground comics, cartoons, comic strips, comics and film, international comics, writers, artists, teaching comics, 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 mailing list. 

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 Comic Art & Comics Area, do not submit a paper to another area.  Participants are eligible for the annual Inge Award for Comics Scholarship, awarded to the top paper presented in the Comic Art & Comics Area of the PCA.

Scholars interested in presenting a paper at the national conference should send a 100-200 word abstract and a short introductory bio by November 30, 2008, to the area chair:

Via e-mail:   Nicole Freim             Via mail:        Nicole Freim

                      nfreim@charter.net                             Riverside Community College

                                                                                    1798 Main Street

                                                                                    Riverside, CA  92501

For more information, please visit the PCA or CAC web sites:

http://www.pcaaca.org

http://www.comicsresearch.org/CAC