​dedicated to the study of comics from around the world

The International Comic Arts Forum is an academic conference dedicated to promoting ​the scholarly study and appreciation of comic art, including comic strips, comic books, comics albums and graphic novels, magazine and newspaper cartooning, caricature, and comics in electronic media. 

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latest news

• View photos from ICAF 2023 in Review at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
• Congratulations to Cassia Hayward-Fitch, the 2023 recipient of the John A. Lent Scholarship in Comics Studies, and to honorable mention awardee, Mattia Arioli.
• ​Meet the ICAF Executive Committee.
• To receive ICAF updates, join our mailing list.​​

Image by Jaime Hernandez for ICAF 2019

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ICAF was founded at Georgetown University in 1995 by Tristan Fonlladosa and Guy Spielmann.