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The Canadian Society for the Study of Comics is a national, bilingual scholarly association that promotes the academic study of comics. La Société canadienne pour l'étude de la bande dessinée est une association savante nationale et bilingue qui promeut l’étude académique de la bande dessinée.
Erika Chung and Neale Barnholden were part of the team of comics scholars at TCAF. Erika Chung et Neale Barnholden ont fait partie de l’équipe de chercheureuses à TCAF. # comics #bandedessinee
Les 6 et 7 juin, le Toronto Comic Arts Festival fête la bande dessinée, Explorez. Découvrez. June 6th and 7th, Toronto Comic Arts Festival celebrates comics. Explore. Discover at the Mattamy Athletic Centre (50 Carlton St.).
#comics #TCAF

If you make manga outside of Japan, the Japanese government has a prize for being awesome at it.

Entries are due by 30 June.

https://www.manga-award.mofa.go.jp/en/application/20/index.html

https://www.manga-award.mofa.go.jp/index_e.html

#manga #anime #bandedessine #comics

Andrew Furman, Safiyya Hosein (both from Toronto Metropolitan University) and Kristin Franseen (Western) at the CSSC conference. Andrew discussed how comics nostalgia rests on one’s memories of the format in which we discovered the form. Safiyya discussed the feminism of the digital comic 1001 (a reboot of the Arabian Nights). Kristin looked into historical fiction involving Mozart. #comics
A great panel. Heavy Lines / Fatness in Comics Round Table. There ´s a need to do away with the redemption narratives. Rosena Fung, Ramanpreet A. Bahra, Allyson Mitchell, May Friedman and Mollie Cronin. #comics
Dr. Jaleen Grove and Arden Phair at the CSSC conference to launch the open-access collection of Mr. Phair’ s archives of cartoons picturing Niagara Falls from the 19th-century to the présent.
#comics
Une collection en ligne de dessins d’humour sur les chutes Niagara. https://www.jstor.org/site/risd/ardenphaircartooncollection/?so=item_title_str_asc
Bruno Porto discussed the 80 years of Action Comics covers. Neale Barnholden looked into the 1980’s DC Secret Origins series. Une présentation des couvertures d’Action Comics. Une analyse de la série de DC Secret Origins. #comics
Le Festival BD de Montréal (FBDM) a inauguré la saison des festivals de bande dessinée. Montreal Comic Arts Festival (MCAF) launched the comics festivals season. 15-17 mai/May 15-17.
Des bandes dessinées peuvent-elles changer notre compréhension du politique ?
Venez discuter avec notre conférencier d’honneur, Jamie Michaels, auteur du roman graphique Christie Pits, un récit de résistance au fascisme dans le Toronto des années 1930.
4 juin 15h30 à 17h, Toronto Metropolitan University Library, Archives and Special Collections, 350 Victoria St., 4e étage
Le colloque de la SCEBD se tient conjointement avec TCAF.
Can comics change the way we understand politics?
Come and discuss with our keynote speaker, Jamie Michaels, author of the graphic novel Christie Pits, a story of resistance to fascism in 1930’s Toronto.
June 4th, 3:30-5PM, oronto Metropolitan University Library, Archives and Special Collections, 350 Victoria St., 4th floor
CSSC’s conference is held jointly with TCAF