​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. 

Image by Jaime Hernandez for ICAF 2019

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latest news

• ICAF is cosponsoring the SPX 2020 panel "How Drawings Resonate: Empathy and Identity in Graphic Memoir" with cartoonists GB Tran, Erin Williams, scholar Jeanette Roan, and ICAF Excomm members Kay Sohini and Qiana Whitted. You can find the event at https://www.smallpressexpo.com/sessions/how-drawings-resonate-empathy-and-identity-in-graphic-memoir
• We will be hosting our own virtual forums with video panels and an ICAF blog roundtable starting in mid-October.
• Welcome Emily Decker-Bess, Andrew Kunka, and Kay Sohini to the ICAF Executive Committee!
• Congrats to Francesca Lyn, our 2019 John A. Lent Award Recipient!
• Browse the latest International Comic Arts Forum Comics Scholarship Bibliography.
• To receive ICAF updates, join our mailing list.​​

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