[Commlist] Call for abstracts: Folio: Stories of Australian Comics

*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*

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*FOLIO: STORIES OF AUSTRALIAN COMICS*

How are Australian comics made, read, contested, thought about, produced 
– what do Australian comics mean to you? We are a research team 
calledFolio <https://www.foliocomics.com/>; we are academics from three 
universities working with a broader group of practitioners on an 
Australian Research Council project to tell stories of contemporary 
Australian comics 1980-now. The project entailsputting together an 
interactive history and archive of the last 40 years of comics in Australia.

We are putting together a proposed book that will grow out of the 
project in response to an invitation from an international publisher.We 
are interested in hearing from scholars of all kinds, Australian and 
international, such as comics-makers, creative practice researchers and 
artist-critics, scholars from other disciplines including but not 
limited to medical humanities, literary and cultural studies/ histories/ 
geographies, creative writing, visual arts and graphic design, print and 
digital publishing studies, media and film, on Australian comics topics 
of interest.

One of our guiding ideas is that Australian comics represents a complex 
intersecting ‘ecology’ of many different genres, networks and formats. 
We want our project to highlight the many nodes of this ecology, mapping 
and traversing the ways in which they interconnect.

As such, essays can be in a mix of forms, prose, comics or both, and can 
incorporate personal experience.

Essays might ask:What is 'Australia' in Australian comics? How does it 
look? How does it sound? What is the Australian comics ‘scene’? What 
places, people and atmospheres make this scene what it is?  What are the 
limiting or excluding aspects of the Australian comics world? How has 
Australian comics tracked or offered counterpoint to social shifts as 
they relate to decolonisation and Indigenous sovereignty, gender and 
sexuality, understandings of environmental crisis, understandings of 
capital? What about changes in production and distribution format, 
including the digital? How is the Australian comics world situated 
within comics globally? How have key artists advanced the form? Which 
quality artists remain underread and under-described? How have you made 
comics? How has comics made you?

We are seeking abstracts of 200 words by 30 April 2022; abstracts should 
come accompanied with a short bio and an outline of how the work will be 
presented.

No payment from the authors will be required.

*Timeline:*

30 April 2022 – 200-word abstracts due
June 2022 – Editors respond to abstracts
December 20 2022 – Full essays between 3000 and 5000 words, or 10 and 20 
comics pages, due (Instructions on format will be sent on acceptance of 
abstract)
Early 2023 – Essays and comics sent for peer review
2024 – Projected publication

Please send abstracts and queries (toaustraliancomicsfolio /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(australiancomicsfolio /at/ gmail.com)>.

About Folio and the research team:https://www.foliocomics.com/about 
<https://www.foliocomics.com/about>

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