[Comicsstudiessociety] COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY LISTSERV ANNOUNCEMENT

[Gardner, Jared]

To foster community during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Executive Board has approved opening our listserv to the public for three months. After July 1st, we will ask all non-members who are signed up to the listserv to become CSS members. Our membership info is available here: http://comicssociety.org/membership/

We invite members of the listserv to contribute to our virtual comics studies community by joining in conversations about research, teaching, and other aspects of comics studies and the profession. We are grateful to Jared Gardner for agreeing to moderate the listserv in its rollout phase. We are looking to transition to four moderators from the general membership (including two members of the Graduate Student Caucus) to take over moderating duties in due course. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please email Candida Rifkind (c.rifkind at uwinnipeg.ca<mailto:c.rifkind at uwinnipeg.ca>)

In addition to individual posts, we invite members (or two or three together) to host specific topical discussions. These could run for a month, be connected to a reading (or not), and be a way to encourage thoughtful exploration of comics-related issues.

As a reminder of the ethos we hope to foster through this listserve, here is our founding mission statement:

The Comics Studies Society (CSS) is an interdisciplinary society open to all who share the goals of promoting the critical study of comics, improving comics teaching, and engaging in open and ongoing conversations about the comics world.

CSS defines comics studies liberally to include the study and critical analysis of comics strips; comic books, papers, and magazines; albums, graphic novels, and other graphic books; webcomics and other electronic formats; single-panel cartoons, including editorial and gag cartoons; caricature; animation; and other related forms and traditions. All types of sequential art, graphic narrative, and cartooning are relevant to our mission.

In addition, participation in this listserv is governed by the recently approved Comics Studies Society Code of Conduct. We encourage all listserv participants to familiarize yourselves with this document: http://comicssociety.org/documents/CodeofConduct_April2020.pdf
We look forward to developing our membership through this forum!

The CSS Executive Board
April, 2020

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