Call for Papers – Comics and Authorship

Call for papers for a special issue of
Authorship edited by Maaheen Ahmed

Comics and Authorship

Moebius, self-portrait

Moebius, self-portrait

The comic, recently legitimized through the graphic novel phenomenon while remaining anchored in popular culture, can provide unique insights into issues surrounding authorship. Although comics scholarship has explored autobiographical comics and the strategies for self-fashioning of individual canonized comics artists and writers, the complex and mutating concept of comic book authorship remains by and large overlooked. Continue la lecture