Comic Art & Comics

Call for Papers:

The Comic Art & Comics Area of the Popular Culture Association invites all comics scholars to participate in the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association to be held March 19-22, 2008, in San Francisco, California, at the San Francisco Marriott.  Details of the conference can be found at the conference website www.pcaaca.org on page http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/2008/index.php

The Comic Art & Comics Area of the Popular Culture Association offers a chance for scholars from across the country to share their research and exchange ideas on the growing field of comics scholarship.  Graduate students and those without current academic affiliation are welcome.  Papers on all aspects of the medium are invited.  This call asks for individual paper proposals or submissions for entire panels.  If you are submitting a panel, please make sure to note the members of your panel.  

In addition to general papers, if a presenter would like to propose a special panel or roundtable discussion, please e-mail the chair so she can forward the request to the mailing list. 

Papers should be delivered in 15-20 minutes.  The PCA limits presenters to one paper given at the conference so if you are interested in presenting a paper in the Comic Arts & Comics Area, do not submit a paper to another area.  Participants are eligible for the annual Inge Award for Comics Scholarship, awarded to the top paper presented in the Comic Art & Comics Area of the PCA.

Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2007.