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The University of Washington in Seattle to host International Comic Arts Forum,
November 2 to 4, 2017
Confirmed speakers include legendary shoujo manga artist Moto Hagio
and author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist Jesús Cossio.
November 2 to 4, 2017
Confirmed speakers include legendary shoujo manga artist Moto Hagio
and author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist Jesús Cossio.
The International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) is proud to announce that the University of Washington will host the forum’s 19th annual academic conference from November 2-4, 2017 in Seattle Washington
Since 1995, the International Comic Arts Forum has been 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. The forum provides a supportive, collegial environment to showcase innovative comics scholarship and comic art from around the world.
This year ICAF has teamed up with the 7th annual Short Run Comix & Arts Festival to celebrate special guests and bring you innovative and thought-provoking programming in Seattle. Short Run focuses on the medium of comics as a coalescence of art and literature. They highlight artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world who make indie comix and self-published, small press, and handmade books of all kinds. We look forward to seeing the intersections between this indie festival and our 19th annual academic conference. Find out more about Short Run: www.shortrun.org
This year ICAF is also pleased to announce that our international guest artists include Jesús Cossio and Moto Hagio.
Peruvian author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist Jesús Cossio is author of Barbarie: Cómics Sobre la Violencia Política 1985-1990 (2010), Los Años del Terror (2016) and co-author of Rupay: Historias Gráficas Sobre la Violencia Política 1980-1984 (2008), Biopolítica para Principiantes (2012), and Guerrilla en Paucartambo (2013). Cossio is celebrated as one of the foremost creators of documentary, testimonial and journalistic comics in contemporary Latin America. Much of his work revolves around testimony surrounding the atrocities committed during the violent period of internal conflict between 1980-2000 in Peru, for which he was a recipient of a 2003 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities.
Also the author of webcomics La Guerra por el Agua, Mala Onda, and Las Increíbles Aventuras del Hombre que no se Hacía Dramas, Cossio has given invited talks throughout Peru, as well as in Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and the United States. Since 2013, he has been working through a branch of the Peruvian Ministry of Justice to offer workshops on narrating community memory through graphic narratives in areas most directly affected by the violence that occurred during the internal conflict.
Since 1995, the International Comic Arts Forum has been 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. The forum provides a supportive, collegial environment to showcase innovative comics scholarship and comic art from around the world.
This year ICAF has teamed up with the 7th annual Short Run Comix & Arts Festival to celebrate special guests and bring you innovative and thought-provoking programming in Seattle. Short Run focuses on the medium of comics as a coalescence of art and literature. They highlight artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world who make indie comix and self-published, small press, and handmade books of all kinds. We look forward to seeing the intersections between this indie festival and our 19th annual academic conference. Find out more about Short Run: www.shortrun.org
This year ICAF is also pleased to announce that our international guest artists include Jesús Cossio and Moto Hagio.
Peruvian author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist Jesús Cossio is author of Barbarie: Cómics Sobre la Violencia Política 1985-1990 (2010), Los Años del Terror (2016) and co-author of Rupay: Historias Gráficas Sobre la Violencia Política 1980-1984 (2008), Biopolítica para Principiantes (2012), and Guerrilla en Paucartambo (2013). Cossio is celebrated as one of the foremost creators of documentary, testimonial and journalistic comics in contemporary Latin America. Much of his work revolves around testimony surrounding the atrocities committed during the violent period of internal conflict between 1980-2000 in Peru, for which he was a recipient of a 2003 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities.
Also the author of webcomics La Guerra por el Agua, Mala Onda, and Las Increíbles Aventuras del Hombre que no se Hacía Dramas, Cossio has given invited talks throughout Peru, as well as in Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and the United States. Since 2013, he has been working through a branch of the Peruvian Ministry of Justice to offer workshops on narrating community memory through graphic narratives in areas most directly affected by the violence that occurred during the internal conflict.
Legendary shoujo manga artist Moto Hagio is a founder of the "Year 24 Group," which revolutionized shoujo manga in the 1970s--and its effects on the genre are still clear to this day. She has been writing manga regularly since 1969, and many of her stories have been adapted to film, television, theatre, and even radio dramas. Among many accolades, Hagio has won the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize (1997), the Comic-Con Inkpot Award (2010), and the Japan Cartoonist Association's Award (2011). She is also the first female manga creator to be awarded the Japanese Medal of Honor for Culture (2012). Fantagraphics has recently published several of her prominent works for the first time in English, including Heart of Thomas, A Drunken Dream and Other Stories, and the first volume of Otherworld Barbara volume one. The second volume of Otherworld Barbara is due out this summer.