The International Comic Arts Forum

This academic conference, founded more than 20 years ago at Georgetown University, is a chance for scholars to share their studies in comic art, graphic novels, cartooning, etc. This year, the conference will be held in Seattle, city of Fantagraphics, to which we say: appropriate choice! They've invited Peruvian author/illustrator Jésus Cossio (Los Años del Terror), artist/author Emil Ferris (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters), manga artist Moto Hagio, comics writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Captain Marvel, Bitch Planet), and artist Jim Woodring (Congress of the Animals) to speak, along with many others. The keynote speaker will be Professor Ramzi Fawaz from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.