Our Comics Studies at UNT community has recently been joined by a new addition: a newly-created, registered student-organization devoted to making and sharing comics! We’re excited to have these student creators join our already-active community of scholars, teachers, students, and creators of comics at UNT. Read more below about their work.
Welcome back, everyone, to the Fall 2024 semester and a new year of school, work, and Comics Studies at UNT! We’ve got lots of updates on our Comics Studies initiative and other comics-related events and activities happening at UNT.
Please join us for an upcoming Artist’s Talk: Christopher Sperandio, “Teaching Comics Making: The Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop” Willis Library, 250H, Monday, November 13, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. This talk is free and open to the public.
Please join us on Wednesday, November 8, from 10 a.m.-12 p.m., in Willis Library 130, for an “Into the Archieverse” Research Day!
At the end of July 2023, UNT hosted the annual Comics Studies Society Conference at the UNT Gateway Center. The conference included over 150 registered attendees, online and in-person, plus over a dozen artists, publishers, and libraries represented in the Artist’s Alley, which was open to the public. The conference was organized and hosted… Read more »
Registration is now open for the 2023 Comics Studies Society Conference, “Comics on the Margins,” coming to UNT this summer (July 27-29, 2023) at the Gateway Center https://comicsstudies.org/2023-conference/
We’re excited to share the news that the 2023 Comics Studies Society Annual Conference, “Comics on the Margins“, is coming to the University of North Texas, July 27-29, 2023!
Please join the UNT Libraries for a Digital Scholarship & Comics Studies Event: Panels & Pixels: A Virtual Comics Exhibition Are you a comics fan, collector, or artist? We’d love to see some of your art or your collection and hear about why comics are an important part of your work, your classes, your hobbies,… Read more »
Despite the world falling into chaos, a pandemic raging, social movements on the march, an election swirling, and all the hectic busy-ness of a most unusual semester, the Comics Studies community at UNT managed to squeeze in some welcome comics-related activities that kept us all somewhat grounded, connected, and nourished by our shared love of… Read more »
Comics Studies@UNT is excited to announce that we are partnering with comics studies groups at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Michigan State University, and with Digital Frontiers, to host the first virtual Flyover Comics Symposium, September 24-25, 2020. This event was designed to fill the gap left by the cancellation of several comics studies conferences… Read more »
