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Call for Papers: Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture
PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Joint Conference, April 20-23, 2011, San Antonio, TX

http://www.swtxpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2010

The SW/TX PCA/ ACA invites papers on Comics, Graphic Novels, Popular Culture. Any Aspect of  Comics and Graphic Novels in Popular Culture will be considered. Some topics could include:

COMICS TO FILM

• Sequential Art and Storytelling

• Fanboy culture

• Manga, Anime and the Movies

• Comic-Conventions

• Particular Artists or writers (Bendis, Steranko, Kirby, Everett, Niles, etc)

• The Rise of the Graphic Novel

• What is a Graphic Novel?

• History of Newspaper Comics!

• Gay Characters in comics

• Film and Superheroes!

• Adapting Specific Graphic Novels for the Screen

• Racism and the X-Men

• Spiderman as the Everyman

• Cartoon Network: Good or Bad for Comics

• Comics and Philosophy

• Graphic Novels as outlets for social justice (ie,, World War III )

• Comics as political satire (eg,., Tom Tomorrow, Addicted To War )

• Horror Comics

• The Resurrection of Captain America-Why NO comic character ever stays dead?

• DC, Marvel, and Comic corporations

• Indies and their role

• Comics and Graphic Novels the world (eg., Tintin).

• The scholarly study of Graphic Novels/comics in the academy

• Libraries and Graphic Novels

These are just general examples ANY topic will be considered. Please send title and 25-200 word abstract by Dec 15, 2010

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