UVM Libraries: Comics Based Research and Comics Studies: Beyond the Library

What's Happening Beyond the Library?

Bonn Online Bibliography for Comics Research
Complement to ComicsResearch.org, does not include magazines, newspapers and blogs
Comics Forum
Academic comics work, comics studies and more
Graphic Medicine
Illness and health via National Library of Medicine
SCA Graphic Ethnography on the Rise
An editors forum on graphic experimentation with in ethnographic research and practice
Visual Language Lab
Research group of Neil Cohn and colleagues, devoted to linguistic and cognitive research on visual language and multimodality.

The Comics Reporter
News & reviews from Tom Spurgeon
Comics Worth Reading
News & reviews from Johanna Draper Carlson and friends
Graphic Novel Resources
Blog by Stergios Botzakis, Associate Professor at U Tennessee
Society of Illustrators
Preservation of comic art
Vermont in the Comics
Database updated by Andy Kolovos of the Vermont Folk life center of every, EVERY, vermont mention in super hero comics.

Graphic Justice Research Alliance
The Graphic Justice Research Alliance is an interdisciplinary research network exploring the crossover between law and justice and comics of all kinds
The Ladybroad Ledger
Local! Vermont's only free femme Alt Comics newspaper!, an annual publication showcasing comics by femme and nonbinary Vermont cartoonists.
Queer Cartoonists

Vermont Non Fiction Comics Fest
Burlington local conference held in the Fletcher Free Library
MICE
Massachusetts Independent Comics Exposition

Comic Arts Conference
In conjunction with two other cons (comic-con San Diego and wondercon SF), a scholarly comics study convention
Comics and Popular Arts Conference
Peer reviewed presentations based in research in conjunction with another con called dragoncon
Comics Forum
Academic scholarship of comics (also in online resources area)
Comics Studies Society
Interdisciplinary open society for the study of comics
Graphic Justice Alliance
Yearly conference on graphic justice, also linked in online resources
Indigipop
Indigenous comic con
Popular Culture Association
Comics scholarship field specific
SKASDIcon
Associated with the Cherokee nation comic convention in Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Small Press Expo
Alternative comic convention

International Comic Arts Forum
All forms of comic academia
The International Comics Conference
International Bande Dessinée Society and the International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference
Nordic Network for Comics Research
Nordic comics scholars to communicate, meet up and share ideas
Transitions: New Directions in Comics Studies
Annual one-day symposium promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics

Universities with CBR Labs

A Sampler of Institutions with Comics Studies/Sequential Arts programs

Other Local Opportunities

Vermont Non-Fiction Comics Fest
UVM Comics Studies Courses
Keep an eye out on the SOC for Courses with the key words: Comics, Graphic Novel, Zine.
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