<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Comics Scholars:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) is in the process of compiling its bibliography of English-language comics scholarship published from January-December 2020. The bibliography will be published on the <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__internationalcomicartsforum.us7.list-2Dmanage.com_track_click-3Fu-3D1e4e34150106dec1e8b3dc7e0-26id-3D2215263cce-26e-3Da933698d7f&d=DwMFaQ&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=HfwtXT8w_-DBOEiZJCbRqk0uUoVsbRfHtMiFSncVRJQ&m=D6EslpvSWbrxGo2h4fdGV_kQ7W-sdJFR004ZA5RtNPs&s=ik7sfo51lEilJQRbfLpp21XvL3ib5u64My6tSCfx6Ek&e=" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">ICAF website</a>. It's our hope that this resource will provide comics scholars working in diverse departments, fields, and institutions with a useful and revealing snapshot of recent work in our rapidly expanding area of study. But we can't do it without your help! </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Below, you will find a list of book publishers and scholarly journals from which we are already pulling citations to include in the bibliography. If you have published a work in comics studies with a publisher or in a journal <b><i>not</i> listed there</b>, please submit a complete citation for your publication to us in the most recent MLA citation format. Also, please note that our survey of book publishers focuses on series related to comics studies. If you have published a book chapter, monograph, or collection with one of these presses in a series that is not related to comics studies, then you may wish to provide a citation for it as well. Citations should be sent to <a href="mailto:ICAFbib@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">ICAFbib@gmail.com</a> by Feb. 22, 2022. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Journals:</b><br><i>Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics</i><br><i>Studies in Comics</i><br><i>IJOCA</i><br><i>Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society</i><br><i>ImageTexT</i><br><i>European Comic Art</i><br><i>Journal of Popular Culture</i><br><i>Image & Narrative</i><br><i>SANE Journal</i><br><i>Comics Grid </i><br><i>Mechademia</i><br><i>Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art</i><br><i>Journal of Comics and Culture</i><br> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Book Publishers:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">University Press of Mississippi </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">University of Texas Press</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ohio State University Press</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Bloomsbury Academic </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Routledge </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Rutgers University Press</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Palgrave</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">McFarland</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thanks in advance for your help!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br>Sincerely,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Andrew J. Kunka</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ICAF Executive Committee</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Andrew J. Kunka, PhD</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Chair, the Division of Arts and Letters and the Division of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Professor of English</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Associate Editor, Book Reviews, <i>Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Office: Arts and Letters Building 103</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Phone: 803-938-3718</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:ajkunka@uscsumter.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">ajkunka@uscsumter.edu</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Website: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.uscsumter.edu&d=DwMFAg&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=U5Unf7-i055iIghwvzEOy_GhsKUG6Ka6XgVTTePa3p8&m=ceULIQ955fpkj7pTExJ8IgFJyhYonSrbzBldXPNL7ho&s=OhaWUuZarXbYOG1AUVSv9bqzyp9KuMb284gnnQdzyio&e=" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">www.uscsumter.edu</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">University of South Carolina Sumter</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">200 Miller Road, Sumter, SC 29150</p></div>