• Home
  • About
    ▼
    • What is Graphic Medicine?
    • Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC)
    • Website Team
    • International Sister Sites
      ▼
      • Medicina Grafica
      • Japanese Graphic Medicine Association
    • A Short History of “Art” Comics
  • Book Reviews
    ▼
    • All
    • Editor’s Picks
    • Graphic Novels
    • Comic Books
    • Educational
    • Manga
    • bandes dessinées
    • Web Comics
    • Picture Books
    • Unreviewed
  • In The News
  • Conferences
    ▼
    • 2021 UnConvention
    • 2020 Toronto Conference
    • 2019 Brighton Conference
    • 2018 Vermont Conference
    • 2017 Seattle Conference
      ▼
      • Home
      • Program
      • Registration (NOW CLOSED)
      • Lodging in Seattle
      • 2017 Seattle Conference Sponsors
      • Call for Art
      • Press/Media Inquiries
    • 2016 Dundee Conference
    • 2015 Riverside Conference
    • 2014 Baltimore Conference
      ▼
      • Home
      • Program 2014
        ▼
        • Program 2014
        • Keynote Speakers 2014
        • Marketplace 2014
        • Juried Exhibit 2014
        • Call for Papers 2014 (closed)
      • Accommodation & Travel 2014
        ▼
        • Accommodation & Travel 2014
        • Additional hotel suggestions
      • Sponsors 2014
      • Baltimore Restaurants & Attractions
      • FAQs 2014
      • Registration 2014 (closed)
    • 2013 Brighton Conference
    • 2012 Toronto Conference
    • 2011 Chicago Conference
    • 2010 London Conference
  • Multimedia
    ▼
    • Graphic Medicine Podcast
  • Resources
    ▼
    • National Library of Medicine Graphic Medicine Exhibit
    • Publishers
    • Essential Graphic Medicine: An Annotated Bibliography
    • Medical Humanities
    • Online Articles
    • Comic Sites and Blogs
    • Author and Artist Sites
  • Merch/Support
  • Contact
Graphic Medicine
  • Home
  • About
    • What is Graphic Medicine?
    • Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC)
    • Website Team
    • International Sister Sites
      • Medicina Grafica
      • Japanese Graphic Medicine Association
    • A Short History of “Art” Comics
  • Book Reviews
    • All
    • Editor’s Picks
    • Graphic Novels
    • Comic Books
    • Educational
    • Manga
    • bandes dessinées
    • Web Comics
    • Picture Books
    • Unreviewed
  • In The News
  • Conferences
    • 2021 UnConvention
    • 2020 Toronto Conference
    • 2019 Brighton Conference
    • 2018 Vermont Conference
    • 2017 Seattle Conference
      • Home
      • Program
      • Registration (NOW CLOSED)
      • Lodging in Seattle
      • 2017 Seattle Conference Sponsors
      • Call for Art
      • Press/Media Inquiries
    • 2016 Dundee Conference
    • 2015 Riverside Conference
    • 2014 Baltimore Conference
      • Home
      • Program 2014
        • Program 2014
        • Keynote Speakers 2014
        • Marketplace 2014
        • Juried Exhibit 2014
        • Call for Papers 2014 (closed)
      • Accommodation & Travel 2014
        • Accommodation & Travel 2014
        • Additional hotel suggestions
      • Sponsors 2014
      • Baltimore Restaurants & Attractions
      • FAQs 2014
      • Registration 2014 (closed)
    • 2013 Brighton Conference
    • 2012 Toronto Conference
    • 2011 Chicago Conference
    • 2010 London Conference
  • Multimedia
    • Graphic Medicine Podcast
  • Resources
    • National Library of Medicine Graphic Medicine Exhibit
    • Publishers
    • Essential Graphic Medicine: An Annotated Bibliography
    • Medical Humanities
    • Online Articles
    • Comic Sites and Blogs
    • Author and Artist Sites
  • Merch/Support
  • Contact
Home / In The News / CFP: Comics in the Time of COVID-19

CFP: Comics in the Time of COVID-19

Apr. 24, 2020 by Matthew Noe

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest

CFP: Comics in the Time of COVID-19

An edited collection on graphic medicine and graphic storytelling related to the COVID-19 global pandemic

Editors:

Alexandra P. Alberda

Anna Feigenbaum

William Proctor


As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to infect millions, kill people around the world, dismantle political, economic and cultural infrastructures, and disrupt our everyday lives, we have seen a surge in amateur and professional creative activity in the comics medium. From blogs to Instagram, superheroes to public health, educational comics to graphic memoirs, etc., artists are engaging with a variety of genres, narratives, platforms and styles to tell stories. 

This edited collection seeks to bring together a range of creative work, along with practice-based and critical reflections on what it means to make, share and read comics in the time of COVID-19. Bridging the fields of comics studies, memoir studies, graphic medicine and data storytelling, this collection also aims to explore our definitions of ‘what counts’ as graphic medicine and graphic storytelling. 

We invite submissions in the form of comics, graphic chapters, interviews and other alternative formats, along with more traditional academic chapters.

Themes include but are not limited to:

-Histories, Comics and Global Health

-Comics, Superheroes and COVID-19

-Graphic Memoir and Self-Narrative

-Data Comics and COVID-19

-Political cartoons and other types of commentary  

-Genre, narrative and style in COVID-19 comics

-Online publishing platforms and environments

-Shifting economies of comic creation and distribution

This collection aims to take a transdisciplinary and transnational perspective, with contributions written for the broadest audience. We particularly encourage submissions from comics artists, PhD and early career scholars, those from underrepresented communities in academia and people from the Global South.

For a gallery of existing COVID-19 comics graphicmedicine.org is a great resource: https://www.graphicmedicine.org/covid-19-comics. Also, check out the hashtag #covid19comicsforgood


Please submit a 300-word abstract, script or description of your proposed contribution to covid19comics@bournemouth.ac.uk by May 31st, 2020.

Categories: Call For Papers Tags: call for papers, CFP, covid19

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

  • Subscribe to our iTunes Podcast
  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Join our Facebook Group
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Subscribe to our YouTube Channel

Subscribe to Graphic Medicine

Join our email list to keep up with the latest Graphic Medicine news!
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Shop / Support Us!

Visit Our Sister Site for Spanish Readers

Visit Our Sister Site for Japanese Readers

Visit the Pathographics Project

Graphic Medicine Database

About Graphic Medicine

Graphic Medicine is a site that explores the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare. We are a community of academics, health carers, authors, artists, and fans of comics and medicine. The site is maintained by an editorial team under the direction of the Graphic Medicine International Collective.

© 2007 - 2021 Graphic Medicine International Collective

WordPress Developer