[ecrea] Call for Chapter Contributions: Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America

Call for Chapter Contributions: Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America

The recent resurgence in the popularity of comics and graphic novels has 
been accompanied by a concurrent expansion of the wider comics field. 
The wealth of comic cons and events, adaptations into and out of comics, 
the remediation and redeployment of comics and comics iconography in 
public spaces and art galleries, and digital and online comics and 
related forums, all pay testament to the increasing way in which comics 
circulate and exist beyond the page.

Our aim in the collection /Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America/ is 
to explore this expanding comics field in this region. Since the turn of 
the new millennium in particular, Latin America has seen an increase in 
the number of comics festivals and events (e.g. /Entreviñetas/, /Crack! 
Bang! Boom!/, /Viñetas Sueltas/, /Dibujas que hablan/, etc.), in comics 
publishing houses and specialist bookstores, and in an engagement with 
comics history and iconography in urban public spaces (e.g. Paseo de la 
Historieta in Buenos Aires or the Mural de los Héroes de la Historieta 
Mexicana in Mexico City).

We want to ask: In what diverse and varied ways are comics being used as 
cultural capital, as objects of (symbolic) exchange and as a means for 
(re)shaping identities in a globalised world? How are institutions and 
individuals taking up both national and global cultural traditions and 
iconographies? What differences and tensions are evident in the way that 
states, institutions, organisations and individuals use comics, not 
least in a region with precarious cultural industries and policies? What 
does the refashioning of comics within different social and digital 
spaces mean for ongoing debates about the nature of graphic literature 
and visual communication, or about the nature of the (post)human condition?

We welcome proposals on any topic related to comics beyond the page in 
Latin America, including but not limited to:

·online and digital comics

·comics in public spaces (e.g. murals, statues, graffiti, subway art, etc.)

·comic cons, festivals, cosplay

·expanded comics in art galleries and museums

·the use of comics within education

·the comics industry

Those interested in contributing to this volume should submit a 300-word 
abstract and a 100-word biographic note including institutional 
affiliation to Dr. James Scorer ((comicsandthecity /at/ manchester.ac.uk)) 
before 31 January 2018. Full manuscripts will be due by 15 July. 
Submissions can be made in English, Spanish or Portuguese.


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