Happy to announce two new articles in the new "Handbuch Comicforschung" (eds. Bachmann, Blank, Packard and Wildfeuer) on 1) the relation of media studies to comic studies and on 2) research into digital comics! shorturl.at/XFQXf and shorturl.at/kOiQF If you don't have access, write me a note! 😁

...mal wieder über All Things Comics (und Comicforschung) gesprochen, diesmal im sehr angenehm moderierten Splitter-Cast 😊 open.spotify.com/episode/5xi0... www.splitter-verlag.de/info/podcast...

Congratulations to Charlotte Fabricius, winner of this year's Martin Schüwer Prize for excellence in comic studies, awarded by ComFor and AG Comicforschung 🎈🥳🤗

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.