“We welcome submissions from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives and are particularly interested in underrepresented areas of comics scholarship, such as women in comics and comics outside the Anglo-American region.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Cultures and/or experiences of work in the comics production, distribution, promotion, and consumption circuit
- Theorizing the cultural work of comics casualization
- Freelance labor, feminization, and other employment inequality and precarity
- Histories of comics work, how production has changed over time
- Professional identities and self-identifications in the comics industry
- New workflow/publishing models for comics in the digital age
- Case studies of particular national/regional/local comics production cultures
- Analyses of autobiographical comics and/or fictionalized narratives about the life of the comic book artist
Chapter proposals from authors with both academic and industry/practitioner backgrounds are welcome. Prospective contributors should submit
1) an extended abstract of 300-400 words
2) an indicative bibliography
3) a short biographical sketch
no later than November 30 , 2014“