The International Bande Dessinée Society is a forum for scholarly exchange on all aspects of the bande dessinée, or French-language comic strip.

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Joined September 2012
The CFP for our 2025 joint conference with the @IntBDSoc has now launched - we’re off to Brussels (and online) to explore ‘The Taste of Comics’. Check it out at IGNCC.com #comicsstudies
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The latest issue of European Comic Art has published! Special Issue: Counter-Narratives, Retellings and Redrawings. View the TOC: conta.cc/3hNn1rp #AcademicTwitter #comicart @IntBDSoc
The CFP for the next IGNCC/IBDS conference, Better Living Through Comics (Cambridge, July 2023) is out now! Deadline for proposals is 31 December 2022. See educ.cam.ac.uk/events/confer… for details.
Happy National #ComicBookDay! Sign up for a #freesample issue of European Comic Art! Fill out the form here: ow.ly/I8kn50KQIp1 #comicbook @IntBDSoc
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"The Pain and the Creeping Feeling: Skewed Girlhood in Two Graphic Novels by Åsa Grennvall" by Maria Margareta Österholm. Read with #freeaccess in European Comic Art until June 30! bit.ly/3NIWjen #girlhood #PrideMonth @IntBDSoc
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The latest issue of European Comic Art has published! Feminist Comics in the Nordic Region — Queer, Humour and the Body. Berghahn Journals is offering #freeaccess to this issue until June 30. View TOC: conta.cc/3wQnNsO @IntBDSoc @annanordenstam @mikefrangos #feminism
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We would like to congratulate @BenoitCrucifix on receiving the the #MaxNänny prize from the IAWIS for his article "Rethinking the 'Memorable Panel' from Pierre Sterckx to Olivier Josso Hamel." Read the article in European Comic Art: bit.ly/2yphnEI @IntBDSoc
The latest issue of European Comic Art has published! Special Issue: Tradition and Innovation in Franco-Belgian Bande dessinée. View the TOC: conta.cc/3Ergut2 #AcademicTwitter @IntBDSoc
View the TOC for the upcoming special issue of European Comic Art: bit.ly/3pArsb3 To receive new issue alerts for ECA, please make sure to sign up for email updates: bit.ly/3pArsb3 #AcademicTwitter @IntBDSoc
Our second #KeynoteSpeaker of #IGNCC21 is Kate Charlesworth @AuntieStuds at 11:30 GMT. Kate is a cartoonist, illustrator, & writer whose talk “Making It Up as I Go Along: An Uncurated Career” discuss the creation of an illustrated queer history of the UK from 1950 to 2019.
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Our first #KeynoteSpeaker, Sara W. Duke, will be discussing “A century of collecting international #comics: Cartoon art at the Library of Congress” at 16:00 GMT. Sara is a curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Art in the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
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Full and final programme for #IGNCC21 joint conference with @IntBDSoc is now up at igncc.com with link to registration - all are welcome - we start on Monday!
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This month's @ComicsForum News Review is up: ift.tt/GFOiVT
Registration is now open for The Joint Conference of @TheIGNCC and @IntBDSoc #IGNCC21. Places are free, but they are limited! Book your places now: buff.ly/3owUqWY
After a brief hiatus, we're back! Stay tuned for updates coming soon for The Joint Conference of @TheIGNCC and @IntBDSoc, including the registration opening date. Hosted [online] this year by @CamEdFac buff.ly/3eTKVOn #IGNCC21
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This month's @ComicsForum News Review is up: ift.tt/GFOiVT
This month's @ComicsForum News Review is up: ift.tt/GFOiVT
This month's @ComicsForum News Review is up: ift.tt/GFOiVT
This month's @ComicsForum News Review is up: ift.tt/GFOiVT