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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Call for Proposals (due by Dec. 1, 2021)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Understanding Comics</i> at 30: A Special Issue of INKS<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For a special guest-edited issue of <i><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ohiostatepress.org/Inks.html__;!!KGKeukY!h1yJd_zD56RvSyEqr7VWaC-Ih8mpdnFPfsXIhxCuk-wfj7AF3jF8gmvZqDsF1li47QluDTD6PdOS$">Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society</a></i>, we welcome brief proposals for both comics and prose essays that explore the role of Scott McCloud’s
<i>Understanding Comics</i> in comics studies, its effect on comics aesthetics and pedagogy, and alternatives to its conceptions of the comics medium. We hope that this special issue will include a range of methodological and interdisciplinary approaches to
<i>Understanding Comics</i>, so we encourage artists, creatives, critics, historians, makers, scholars, and more to contribute!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Proposals should provide a brief abstract for a final essay of 2,000-3,000 words, or a 1 page comic (for print at 5x7.5 inches). Proposals should be approximately 200 words (or a combination of text and sketches) with a brief biography,
and they are due by <b>December 1, 2021.</b> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Proposed essays and comics should fit within these two broad headings and set of questions:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
“Understanding <i>Understanding Comics</i>”: How has Understanding Comics influenced comics art, comics studies, intellectual history, pedagogy, theory and criticism, and more? What critical contexts can help us to understand Understanding Comics?
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
“Alternatives to <i>Understanding Comics</i>”: What approaches to comics, cartooning, and sequential art provide alternative visions of the medium? What has changed about the broader field of comics, and our knowledge of its history, since 1993?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We especially welcome approaches that place <i>Understanding Comics</i> in interdisciplinary contexts, as well as approaches that experiment with form, in the spirit of McCloud’s own “comic book about comics.” We wish to include comics
and prose essays from a wide range of practitioners, professionals, and scholars in the comics field today.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Contributors will be notified of their proposal’s status by mid-December, and full-length comics and essays will be due on
<b>March 15, 2022.</b> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Proposals and questions should be emailed to Rachel Miller (<a href="mailto:rachelmiller.4442@gmail.com">rachelmiller.4442@gmail.com</a>) and Daniel Worden (<a href="mailto:dxwind@rit.edu">dxwind@rit.edu</a>) by December 1, 2021.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">-- <br>
Qiana Whitted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Editor, <i>Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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