[Commlist] Alex Ross - Call for Abstracts

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

*/Epic and Iconic: Essays on the Work, Influence, and Legacy of Alex Ross /*

Edited by Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner

Under contract with the University Press of Mississippi for 2023 publication

Nelson Alexander Ross, better known as Alex, has exerted nearly thirty 
years of profound influence upon sequential art storytelling. Ross 
emerged into the comics world in the early 1990s with his work on 
/Terminator: Burning Earth, Marvels, /and/Kingdom Come/, immediately 
establishing his photorealistic style of painting, influenced by Norman 
Rockwell, Salvador Dali, and Andrew Loomis, among others.

In the years since, Ross has drawn and painted nearly every recognizable 
character in the Marvel and DC universes, expanded the storytelling 
capacity of the graphic novel form, and taken home numerous Eisner and 
Harvey awards. His prolific output can be found across media platforms, 
from traditional comics to art galleries, from film and television to 
magazines, toys, and video games.

Given Ross’s substantial and acclaimed level of production, it is no 
exaggeration to consider him among the most important commercial artists 
of his generation – and yet, his work has garnered little academic 
interest. In this collection, we hope to curate the first definitive set 
of scholarly perspectives on Ross’s creative approach, his interventions 
into sequential art narrative and aesthetics, and his lasting influences 
upon popular culture and the creative community.

To this end, we invite abstracts proposing analyses and essays composed 
from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, including, of course, 
comics and sequential art studies, but also art history, visual studies, 
media studies, narratology, critical and cultural studies, digital 
humanities, political economy, media history, semiotics, game studies, 
film studies, studies of myth/religion/literature, and studies of fandom 
and material culture, among many other possibilities.

_Timeline_:

  * Abstracts (500 words max) due:
    November 15, 2021
  * Full articles/essays (5000-6000 words) due:          April 1, 2022
  * Article revisions (1-2 rounds)
    May-September, 2022
  * Delivery of full manuscript to UPM:                          January
    1, 2023

_To Submit_:

Please email your abstract (500 words max) and a biography of no more 
than 150 words to co-editor Rob Peaslee at (robert.peaslee /at/ ttu.edu) 
<mailto:(robert.peaslee /at/ ttu.edu)> no later than November 15, 2021. 
Abstracts should demonstrate the author’s capacity to engage deeply and 
meaningfully with one or more dimensions of Ross’s work, influence, 
background, or reception.

_Questions_:

Please direct questions to the co-editors, Rob Peaslee and Rob Weiner, 
at (robert.peaslee /at/ ttu.edu) <mailto:(robert.peaslee /at/ ttu.edu)> and 
(rob.weiner /at/ ttu.edu) <mailto:(rob.weiner /at/ ttu.edu)>.


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