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Home of the work-group building GNARP, based currently in an online Collaboratory of the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Features posts for discussion on various topics relating to graphic narratives such as graphic novels, manga and comics, as well as tools for interaction between members of the collaboratory. Contact the founder of this Diigo group for more information or to join the effort to pool the exciting scholarship being done on graphic narratives and its explosion in current pop culture.

From the site: "SIGNs - Studies in Graphic Narratives - is a new, peer-reviewed journal focusing on Comics (or, in contemporary jargon, Graphic Novels), from modern times up to the early decades of the 20th century."

Home of The Graphic Narrative Project at Stanford University, to which the Diigo group is affiliated. 

UPenn Call for Papers listing on "Comics, Graphic Narrative, and Sequential Art"

Comics as Literature? Reading Graphic Narrative Author: Hillary Chute Source: PMLA, Volume 123, Number 2, March 2008, pp. 452-465 (14)

Increasingly comic books and graphic narratives/novels find their way onto literature syllabi. Recent anthologies such as _Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills_, edited by Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher, and _Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel,_ edited by James Bucky Carter, emphasize the use for such texts in secondary schools. But what are the benefits of teaching comic books and graphic narratives/novels in college? And how do we best go about doing it? This panel seeks papers that discuss the benefits of teaching these new genres in the Literature classroom. Papers may address pedagogical issues and concerns as well as sample lesson plans and/or anecdotes from experience.

From the site: "The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) offers a two-year course of study that centers on the creation and dissemination of comics, graphic novels and other manifestations of the visual narrative. Experienced and internationally recognized cartoonists, writers, and designers teach classes. The school is located in historic downtown village of White River Junction, Vermont, in the old Colodny Surprise Department Store."

Copyright © 2005, 2007, 2008 Eric S. Rabkin

Syllabus for a course at the University of Michigan taught by Eric Rabkin, listing some useful resources.

NEWW 2 - November 6-7, 2010. Webcomics Weekend is back in 2010 for another year of webcomics-themed festivities. Set in Easthampton, Massachusetts, NEWW is the premiere webcomic event in the United States.

The mission is: "To serve as a professional endeavor to create, make, and deliver to the public professional grade comic books and/or graphic novels. The HTH Graphic Novel Project produces stories that consciously serve the community in a positive way. We seek to encourage the help, support, and critique of professionals in related industries to the project in order to create the best products possible. The project is free to join. We, the members, recruit and encourage membership based on enthusiasm and seriousness towards meeting project goals and deadlines. We do not discriminate towards any person based on age, gender, race, or handicap."

Over the last twenty years or so comic books and video games have been adapted in to movies. Novels have been adapted into comic books. Many of these products have been licensed as toys. Indeed two Singaporeans are actively engaged in such adaptations: Sonny Liew is working on a comic book version of Jane Austin's novel Sense and Sensibility for Marvel Comics, and Eric Khoo is doing a film adaptation of Yoshihiro Tatsumi comic A Drifting Life. Increasing there are convergences between media forms and products. This conference held in conjunction with the Singapore Toys, Games and Comics Convention examines the issues involved in these developments from a scholarly perspective with a focus on Asia.

Article outlining some problems with the Japanese animation industry.

The stage version of The Intergalactic Nemesis projects the comic book artwork panel-by-panel while three actors perform the voices, one foley artist creates the sound effects, and one keyboardist plays the score, all live.

Interesting: changing the name from "manga" to "comics" to reflect the desired scope of submissions. "While this is the fourth time that this competition has been held, it is the first since its name was changed from the Morning International Manga Competition (M.I.M.C.) to the Morning International Comic Competition (M.I.C.C.). Throughout the previous three competitions, we found ourselves keenly noticing something. While in Japan the word "manga" (マンガ) encompasses many broad genres and is still home to innovation and freshness, the term "manga" abroad refers to works of fantasy that are drawn in a specific style, and further confined to a small genre. This time, we saw an immediate change resulting from the contest's revised name, as we received many submissions that could be classified as "seinen manga," the genre that our magazine Morning primarily publishes. Not only that, we also received many highly exciting works with stories and visual designs that we could not imagine ever seeing from creators within the Japanese industry. We value this quality, as seen by the prize-winning works."

SPX 2010 will be held the weekend of September 10 and 11, 2010 at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center in Bethesda, MD, just one mile outside the nation's capital, Washington DC. In its fifteenth year SPX now serves as the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comic books and the discovery of new creative talent.