The Commercial Business of Comics: Transforming Authorship, Distribution, Technology, Story and Aesthetics in the Global North and South
Sat 11 - Sun 12 May 2024, 09:00 - 17:00
British Academy Conferences bring together scholars and specialists from around the world to consider and evaluate new research in the humanities and social sciences.
This international conference brings together established and emerging comics scholars from across the UK, Europe and North America to interrogate the impact of new business practices on the social, economic, and political meanings of graphic narrative as a global cultural industry (encompassing comics, manga, bande dessin茅e, and others, across print and digital media). It will explore new post-colonial paradigms across media, including also the role of commercial markets and fandom.
Presenters will respond to two key questions (i) what are the global comics industries? (ii) how do changing business patterns and practices co-produce new authorship, distribution, technical processes of making and the aesthetic production and reception of comics?
Panel and paper topics will include the importance of the economic context for comics making (across old and new media); the connectivity between post-colonialism and post-print comics making; historical precedents as backdrop or model for current practice; comics fandom as site of cultural co-production; and the shifts in publishing sites between 鈥楪lobal North鈥� and 鈥楪lobal South鈥�.
Conference convenors:
- Professor Hugo Frey, 老司机视频
- Professor Simon Grennan, 老司机视频 of Chester
Speakers across the two-day conference include:
- Dr Carly Bagelman, Liverpool Hope 老司机视频
- Professor Jacqueline Berndt, Stockholm 老司机视频
- Professor Monica Chiu, 老司机视频 of New Hampshire
- Professor Simon Grennan, 老司机视频 of Chester
- Dr Kathryn Hemmann, 老司机视频 of Pennsylvania
- Dr Nicolle Lamerichs, HU 老司机视频 Utrecht
- Dr Ilan Manouach, Metalab Harvard; Echo Chamber, Brussels
- Dr Nina Mickwitz, 老司机视频 of the Arts London
- Dr Pedro Moura, independent scholar
- Dr Dibyadyuti Roy, 老司机视频 of Leeds
- Dr Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed, 老司机视频 of Cardiff; Universidad Externado de Colombia
- Associate Professor Lukas R A Wilde, Norwegian 老司机视频 of Science and Technology in Trondheim
Download the conference programme
Conference ticket prices:
- Admission: 拢75 per day (拢120 for both days).
- Concessions 拢30 for both days
Delegates are responsible for their own accommodation. This is available at various prices via all the usual online booking sites.
