[Comicsstudiessociety] Special Issue CFP: Understanding Comics at 30

[Whitted, Qiana]

Call for Proposals (due by Dec. 1, 2021)

Understanding Comics at 30: A Special Issue of INKS

For a special guest-edited issue of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ohiostatepress.org/Inks.html__;!!KGKeukY!h1yJd_zD56RvSyEqr7VWaC-Ih8mpdnFPfsXIhxCuk-wfj7AF3jF8gmvZqDsF1li47QluDTD6PdOS$ >, we welcome brief proposals for both comics and prose essays that explore the role of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics 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 Understanding Comics, so we encourage artists, creatives, critics, historians, makers, scholars, and more to contribute!

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 December 1, 2021.

Proposed essays and comics should fit within these two broad headings and set of questions:


  1.  “Understanding Understanding Comics”: 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?


  1.  “Alternatives to Understanding Comics”: 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?

We especially welcome approaches that place Understanding Comics 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.

Contributors will be notified of their proposal’s status by mid-December, and full-length comics and essays will be due on March 15, 2022.

Proposals and questions should be emailed to Rachel Miller (rachelmiller.4442 at gmail.com<mailto:rachelmiller.4442 at gmail.com>) and Daniel Worden (dxwind at rit.edu<mailto:dxwind at rit.edu>) by December 1, 2021.

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Qiana Whitted
Editor, Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
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