[Commlist] CFP: Comics in the Time of COVID-19 (edited collection)

CFP: Comics in the Time of COVID-19


An edited collection on graphic medicine and graphic storytelling 
related to the COVID-19 global pandemic


Editors:

Alexandra P. Alberda

Anna Feigenbaum

William Proctor


As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to infect millions, kill people 
around the world, dismantle political, economic and cultural 
infrastructures, and disrupt our everyday lives, we have seen a surge in 
amateur and professional creative activity in the comics medium. From 
blogs to Instagram, superheroes to public health, educational comics to 
graphic memoirs, etc., artists are engaging with a variety of genres, 
narratives, platforms and styles to tell stories.


This edited collection seeks to bring together a range of creative work, 
along with practice-based and critical reflections on what it means to 
make, share and read comics in the time of COVID-19. Bridging the fields 
of comics studies, memoir studies, graphic medicine and data 
storytelling, this collection also aims to explore our definitions of 
‘what counts’ as graphic medicine and graphic storytelling.


We invite submissions in the form of comics, graphic chapters, 
interviews and other alternative formats, along with more traditional 
academic chapters.


Themes include but are not limited to:


-Histories, Comics and Global Health

-Comics, Superheroes and COVID-19

-Graphic Memoir and Self-Narrative

-Data Comics and COVID-19

-Political cartoons and other types of commentary

-Genre, narrative and style in COVID-19 comics

-Online publishing platforms and environments

-Shifting economies of comic creation and distribution


This collection aims to take a transdisciplinary and transnational 
perspective, with contributions written for the broadest audience. We 
particularly encourage submissions from comics artists, PhD and early 
career scholars, those from underrepresented communities in academia and 
people from the Global South.


For a gallery of existing COVID-19 comics graphicmedicine.org is a great 
resource: https://www.graphicmedicine.org/covid-19-comics/


Interested parties may also want to check out the hashtag 
*#covid19comicsforgood*


Please submit a 300-wordabstract, script or description of your proposed 
contribution to (covid19comics /at/ bournemouth.ac.ukby) May 31st, 2020.


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