Bandung Comics Conference in June 2013

http://www.5isc2013.org/

From the website:

Welcome to the 5th International Scholarly Conference 2013 to be held at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in Bandung, Indonesia on 14-16 June 2013. This conference is co-organized with the International Manga Research Center (imrc), Kyoto, which has already held four similar Comics Studies conference, in Kyoto (2009), Cologne (2010), Bucheon (2011), and Kobe/Kyoto (2012), and it is generously supported by Goethe-Institut Indonesien. Under the title “Comics Alternatives: From Graphic Diary to Manga Style”, this conference sets out to engage comics artists and researchers as well as representatives of different sorts of graphic narratives in dialogue about the potentials of the comics medium.

This thematic orientation arises from the observation that alternative comics in the strict sense (for example, graphic diaries) and manga-style comics (from derivative to original creations outside the Japanese-language market) are treated as separate categories in international comics discourse, but that they have actually a lot in common due to their position towards the mainstream. Although in different ways, they are both “alternatives”.

Our conference aims at an interaction of these two kinds of contemporary comics by striving for a balance between scholarly papers and artist talks. With a special focus on inner-Asian networking, creators, critics and curators will discuss aesthetic and cultural “alternatives” within and by means of graphic narratives.

After the conference, we intend to publish an edited volume possibly with NUS Press consisting of both scholarly essays (not necessarily centered on the artist talks but related to them if appropriate) and visual works of the participating artists.


Well, me, Hong Teng and Yong Hwee will be there. If you are in the area...

Sedition

Probably the first time a cartoonist is arrested for sedition in Singapore.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/pore-cartoonist-arrested-alleged-sedition-143415161.html

Which reminds me of an earlier sedition case almost 60 years ago.

http://s-pores.com/2007/04/fajar/

For a brief history of political cartooning in Singapore:

http://singaporecomix.blogspot.sg/2011/10/articles.html

2 news

You should have heard by now from the mainstream press that drew is eisner-nom. Read the story and press release here.

http://www.singaporememory.sg/showcases/40/contents

http://www.epigrambooks.sg/?p=7010

And SNCF is organizing a comics competition.

http://www.sncf.org.sg/web/index.php?option=com_rsevents&view=events&layout=show&cid=144&Itemid=70

Literary Talkback! - Comics

Goodman Arts Centre is conducting an Open Call for comics for their Literary Talkback! open dialogue session. Comic Art is sorely underrated and they are attempting to shed some light on its artistic merit through this programme.

Link: http://goodmanartscentre.sg/component/content/article/613

Check it out if you are interested.

Adam Glass in Singapore

Adam Glass, the writer and executive producer of the internationally famed television series Supernatural and also three-time New York Times best-selling author of Deadpool: Suicide Kings, Suicide Squad: Kicked in the Teeth and Suicide Squad: Basilisk Rising, will be making a special appearance at Kinokuniya Singapore Main Store on Friday, 3rd May 2013 at 7.30 p.m. to meet his fans and conduct an exclusive book-signing session.

http://www.kinokuniya.com.sg/events/adamglass/

See you there.