dedicated to the study of comics from around the world

The International Comic Arts Forum is an annual 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. 
​Our 19th annual conference will take place
Thursday, November 2nd through Saturday, November 4th, 2017
at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Design by Alliyah Willard

Latest News

• ICAF 2016 IN REVIEW: See videos, pics, doodles, and tweets from this year's conference at University of South Carolina.
• Please welcome our new ICAF Executive Committee Board Members Josh Kopin, Frank Bramlett, Andrea Gilroy, and Osvaldo Oyola!
• Congratulations to ICAF 2016 John A. Lent Award recipient Eike Exner!
• Follow us on Twitter!

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ICAF 2016 Sponsors

University of South Carolina Provost Visiting Scholars Program
USC Women & Gender Studies Program, Department of English, African American Studies Program, Southern Studies Program, Film & Media Studies Program, School of Library Science, School of Visual Art & Design, and Languages & Literatures Program
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New York Review Comics
World Literature Today
Fantagraphics
Inn at USC Wyndham Garden
​Palance Music and Media​​
Friends of African American Culture at the Columbia Museum of Art
Punk Monkey Comics
Cosmic Ray's Comics
Ana Merino

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