CFP: Zap! Pow! Out!: Queer Cultures, Queering Comics (12/1; collection)

From: Michael J. Murphy (mjmurphy@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 10:34:31 EDT

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    Call For Manuscripts

    Zap! Pow! Out!: Queer Cultures, Queering Comics

    edited by

    Anne N. Thalheimer and Michael J. Murphy

    **Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2000**
    Submit a 1-2 page abstract and a short CV to each editor. Electronic or
    hardcopy submissions accepted. No email attachments please.

    **Deadline for manuscripts: 1 June 2001**
    MLA citation style; one electronic or hardcopy to each editor- Word or
    WordPerfect versions; please limit text to 25 pages; author responsible
    for securing image copyright permissions.

    To redress the paucity and disparate state of existing scholarship on
    queer comics the editors of this scholarly anthology invite submissions
    of original art, interviews, and critical essays on the cultures of gay,
    lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer comics and related media. The
    editors aim to unite the best classic artwork and essays with innovative
    and exciting imagery and investigations into queer comic strips, comic
    books, graphic novels, Œzines, manga, film or television anime/ation, and
    other related graphic media. Essays which address trans/international
    comics, race and hybridity, or queer spectator/readership are especially
    encouraged.

    Paper topics might include:
    -queer (or queered) comics or artists
    -gay or dyke comix
    -queer comics readers, conventions or fans
    -gay and lesbian super heroes: Wonder Woman and other Amazons
    -original interviews with notable creators, readers, publishers
    -HIV/AIDS or safer sex educative comics
    -(anti)homophobia and/or heterosexism in comics
    -graphic sex (literally) and pornographic comics
    -relationship of queer comics to underground or wimminıs comix
    -queers in straight comics (Doonesbury, For Better For Worse, The
    Simpsons, etc.)
     -sexual ambiguity and anonymity in comics
    -transnational queer comix -gay liberation and comics
    -queer creators, straight comics; vice versa
    -race, class, gender, sexuality hybridities in comics
    -comparative essays with television, film, art, advertising etc.

    Que(e)ries?
    Anne N. Thalheimer
    Dept. English
    212 Memorial Hall
    University of Delaware
    Newark, DE 19716
    Fax: (302) 831 1586
    motes@udel.edu

    Michael J. Murphy
    Dept. Art History/Archaeology
    Steinberg Hall
    Campus Box 1189
    Washington University
    St. Louis MO 63130
    mjmurphy@artsci.wustl.edu

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