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.
Learn more about ICAF's mission and our annual conference.

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Poster by Mike Allred

Latest News

• View the ICAF 2013 Conference Schedule, May 23-25, 2013.
• Registration, Presentation Fees, and Travel Information for Portland. 
• #ICAF2013 Follow us on Twitter! 
• Learn more about Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon, Tommi Musturi, and other invited guest artists and writers here.
  
• Confirmed plenary speakers: Douglas Wolk, author of Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, and Scott Bukatman, author of The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit.

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