[Commlist] call for chapters: Multimodal Comics: The Evolution of Comics Studies

Multimodal Comics: The Evolution of Comics Studies


CALL FOR CHAPTERS


A collection from the editors of Studies in Comics


Abstract (300 words) and contributor biography (100 words) due 1 October 
2020. Completed essays (c. 6,000 words) will be due 1 March 2021.


Please send enquiries, expressions of interest and proposals to 
(studiesincomics /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(studiesincomics /at/ gmail.com)>with the 
email header ‘multimodality collection’.


Multimodality is of increasing relevance to daily human life. Comics are 
a unique and informative site in which to study this concept, as they 
rely on complex interactions between word and image. This collection 
will bring together leading international research on this theme, 
developing comics theory and speaking to additional media and disciplines.


Comics have always embraced a diversity of formats, existing in complex 
relationships to and with other media, and been dynamic in their 
response to new technologies and means of distribution. This collection 
explores interactions between comics, other media and both established 
and emerging technologies, employing a wide range of theoretical and 
critical perspectives. By focusing on key critical concepts within 
multimodality (transmediality, adaptation, intertextuality) and 
addressing multiple platforms and media (digital, analogue, music, 
prose, linguistics, graphics), the collection expands and develops 
existing comics theory and also addresses multiple other media and 
disciplines.


Over the last decade, our Studies in Comics journal has been at the 
forefront of international research in comics. This book volume 
showcases some of the strongest research to appear in the journal, 
alongside a selection of new essays. In so doing, it demonstrates the 
evolution of comics studies over the past ten years and shows how this 
research field has engaged with various media and technologies in a 
continuously evolving artistic and production environment. The theme of 
multimodality is particularly apt since media and technologies have 
changed significantly during this period. The collection will thus give 
a view of the ways in which comics scholars have engaged with 
multimodality during a time when ‘modes’ have been continually changing.


We now invite proposals for new chapters for this edited collection that 
explore aspects of multimodality within comics, including but not 
limited to:


• digitization, online versions, hypercomics;

• sound, animation, enhanced comics;

• intertextuality, adaptation, citation, remediation;

• linguistics, grammar;

• art history, graphic design;

• transtextuality, representation, immersion.


We particularly encourage submissions that engage with BAME/BIPOC 
perspectives and case studies, as we feel that underrepresented voices 
and topics will spark crucial discussions not only about the subjects 
themselves, but also about the expansion of our field over the past decade.


To download the full Call for Papers, click here >> 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/51566/1/Multimodal_Comics_Call_for_Chapter.pdf 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/51566/1/Multimodal_Comics_Call_for_Chapter.pdf>

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