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Spring 2013 Conference, Vancouver

Peter Wilkins writes about the Comics and the Multimodal World conference in Vancouver (June 2013).

Report: Comics Rock Conference, Day 2

Peter Wilkins completes his report from the Third International Academic Conference on Comics: Comics Rock, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom. This was Day 2.

Report: Comics Rock Conference, Day 1

Peter Wilkins reports from Day 1 of The Third International Conference on Comics Conference: Comics Rock, Bournemouth University, UK; Thursday 28 June 2012. Includes notes by Damon Herd (University of Dundee).

Pluto: Robots and Aesthetic Experience

Peter Wilkins offers an analysis of robots’ desire for aesthetic experience as a critique of instrumental reason in Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto, a reworking of the classic “Greatest Robot on Earth” story by Osamu Tezuka.

The Comics Grid:
Open Access, Born-Digital, Open Peer-Review Journal of Comics Scholarship
ISSN 2048-0792
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Comics and the Multimodal World.
An International Conference.
13-16 June 2013
Douglas College
Vancouver, Canada

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Academic Diary

April 19, 2013 – Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference, Dartmouth College, 19-21 April 2013
June 13, 2013 – Comics and the Multimodal World. An International Conference, June 13-16, 2013, Douglas College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
June 24, 2013 – Joint International Graphic Novel and International Bande Dessinée Conferences, 24-28 June 2013, Universities of Glasgow and Dundee, UK

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