Comics Forum

We aim to increase the visibility and accessibility of comics scholarship through an academic conference held as part of Thought Bubble

[Dr. Eszter Szép 🦕🦖🦆🦉The Great Unconformity @eszterlikesrain]

Fionnuala Doran, me, John Miers and Yiqi Zhang at #comicsforum23
A great conference where making comics meets academia (each of us do that!) and everything meets fun fun fun!
📷 : Roger Sabin
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@ComicsForum @FEHNOOLAH @Johnmiers @YiqiZhangComics

[LJMU Special Collections & Archives @LJMU_SCA]

Had a great time at #ComicsForum2023 showcase on Friday. We represented our Femorabilia womens' and girls' magazines and England's Dreaming punk collection through originals, facsimiles, and badge making!
#archives #comics #zines

[Jonathan Macho @Oncomingsmith13]

Met so many people at this conference, both old hands and newbies like me, and it's true what they say: comics scholars are lovely! I'm really excited to keep learning from these guys and am feeling inspired to push on with my own project too - thanks #comicsforum23

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#comicsforum23 is over, it's been a wonderful two days filled with discussions, inspiration, and comics! Thanks to the participants for their papers and see you all next year! ✨❤️

[Darryll Robson @DarryllRobson]

I want to thank the organisers @ComicsForum for giving me the opportunity to speak at this years conference. It was my first time, and I had an amazing day yesterday!

[Yiqi Zhang @YiqiZhangComics]

A huge thanks to @ComicsForum and @ThoughtBubbleUK for organising such wonderful event on comics & thinking about comics! My first in-person presentation at a comics conference would not have been so encouraging without your support. Looking forward to more in the future! 🌟

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@Sayra_Begum_ @merlism @Oncomingsmith13 @saramkenney @fantagraphics @SimonGrennan_ @YiqiZhangComics @SarahJessDarley Panel 5B focuses on time & conflict. Rebecca Scherr explores the feminist concept of wounded flourishing in the comics adaptation of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sawer; @Pilpel talks about ethical engagement and the implicated subject in Rutu Modan's Tunnels at #comicsforum23

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Day 2 of #comicsforum23 starts with a showcase of archives and special collections in the UK. So many exciting comics and inspiring conversations!

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@Sayra_Begum_ @merlism @Oncomingsmith13 @saramkenney @fantagraphics @SimonGrennan_ Panel 5A is all about transnationalism in manga! River Seager on online discourses on transgender otokonoko manga characters; @YiqiZhangComics on princesses in Euromanga W.I.T.C.H.; @SarahJessDarley on reinventions of fairy tales in Kiss of the Rose Princess at #comicsforum23

[UAL Archives @UAL_Archives]

We are excited to be at @leedslibraries returning for @ComicsForum alongside colleagues from LCC Library Special Collections!

#ComicsForum23

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@dc_manea @brookes_gareth @MJHibbett @Thmsgbhrt @ernestopriego Damon Herd navigates us through his career in comics telling personal stories, the untold ww1 stories of his grandfather, oral history collected by the Lochee History Society, and abstract comics in @studiesincomics at #comicsforum23

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Day 1 of Comics Forum 2023 has just started in cold and sunny Leeds! Our topic for the next two days is Reboots and Remediations. ✨ #comicsforum23

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@dc_manea @brookes_gareth @MJHibbett @Thmsgbhrt If you cannot draw, you edit and sample, experiment with materials and layout, but eventually you cannot escape making comics about your academic interests and commenting on events in comics form, says @ernestopriego at #comicsforum23

[Julia Round @hypnojoo]

Shout out to @ComicsForum and all the comics scholars at #comicsForum23 - have a wonderful conference - I am gutted to not be there. Tweet me some comics-based goodness!!