[Commlist] cfp Urban Comics and Graphic Novels

Call for papers / Session proposal to the Association of American 
Geographers Annual Conference, Denver, 2020

Benjamin Fraser (University of Arizona, USA)
Martin Lund (Malmö University, Sweden)

Urban Comics and Graphic Novels: Perspectives from Urbanism, Planning, 
Architecture, and Social Space

This 'Lightning-round' session features participants working on themes 
of the urban and their connection to comics and graphic novels of all 
geographies, languages, and cultures. In this session, the notion of 
'the urban' is not limited to any one perspective, but is inclusive of 
urbanism, architecture, social space, planning, theoretical concepts, 
cultural difference in/and the modern city, and more. The rich tradition 
of comics art has long been entwined with the modern city environment 
and with spatial approaches, a theme that is increasingly visible in 
scholarly books including J. Ahrens and A. Meteling’s ‘Comics and the 
City’ (2010); H. Chute's ‘Why Comics?’; D. Davies's ‘Urban Comics’ 
(2019); J. Dittmer’s Comic Book Geographies (2014); and B. Fraser's 
‘Visible Cities, Global Comics’ (2019). This session invites 
participation from members of the AAG from all subdisciplines and all 
geographical specializations to discuss the convergence of urban 
geography and all formats of comics art: the broadsheet, the woodcut 
novel, the wordless comic, superhero traditions, science fiction comics, 
literary adaptation, the strip format, comics and print media, digital 
comics, independent comics, graphic novels, and so on. While 
participants are encouraged to ground their analyses in the context of 
theoretical/historical/analytical comics approaches (such as those of 
Beaty; Beronä; El Refaie; Groensteen; Karasik and Newgarden; Kunzle; 
Lefèvre; McCloud; Merino; Postema…), we are also interested merely in 
expanding our collective knowledge of how comics entangle with the 
urban, and how comics-makers are engaging with the themes and material 
realities of cities across the globe. Please register for the AAG and 
contact Benjamin Fraser (University of Arizona) at (fraserb2010 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(fraserb2010 /at/ gmail.com)><mailto:(fraserb2010 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(fraserb2010 /at/ gmail.com)>> by October 20, 2019, with the PIN number 
for your ‘lightning-round’ abstract to be included in the session.


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