Jolly news: My new book with Jan-Noël Thon, "AI Aesthetics: AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics", is now available as OPEN ACCESS with Routledge Focus. Check it all out: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi... 🥳

Oh, my recent article about cartoon aesthetics, "Unreliable Iconicity Or: Accounting for the Cartoonish Pictures of Comics in Multimodal Reasoning" is now apparently available as open access!! And other exciting forays into multimodal comic research...! www.bibliothek.tu-chemnitz.de/ojs/index.ph...

Looking forward to speak in Paris and meet wonderful colleagues ❤️ "1 Comic – 10 Perspectives" www.comicgesellschaft.de/2025/04/01/d...

Another ComFor edited collection has just been published by Bachmann. It goes back to the 14th ComFor-Annual Conference in Schwarzenbach an der Saale and brings together 12 essays reflecting translation, localisation, imitation, and adaptation in comics. www.comicgesellschaft.de/en/2025/03/0...

Spread the Word: Call for Papers 20. ComFor Jahrestagung / Annual Conference in Hamburg: "Kindheit und Adoleszenz in/und Comics / Childhood and Adolescence in/and Comics", www.comicgesellschaft.de/en/2025/01/1...

Almost a Christmas Present, long in the making: „Musik, Manga, Medien: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der grafischen Transkription“ in the newly published Jahrbuch Musik und Gender: „Laute(r) Bilder. Musik in Manga, Comic & Co.“, edited by M.Unseld & A. Yamada! shorturl.at/jm9QA

Now that there are more #ComicsStudies scholars here, here's the CFP for The Blue Age of Comics Book! Abstracts due January 15, 2025.