CFP: Modernism and Comics (5/1/07; MSA, 11/1/07-11/4/07)
Call for Papers
Modernist Studies Association 9 in Long Beach, CA
November 1-4, 2007
Modernism and the Comics
While contemporary graphic narratives in comic strip, book, and novel=20
form rapidly gain scholarly attention, the great age of comics, from=20
the birth of the strip genre at the turn of the 20th century to the=20
censorship clampdown of the 1950s, remains all but a dark continent in=20=
relation to other popular and avant-garde cultures of modernism. =20
Building on the interest generated by the Early Comics panel at MSA 8,=20=