By Madeline B. Gangnes, Megan Fowler, and Jaquelin Elliott Imagetexts are fundamentally entangled with their materiality. Comics as a medium has always prompted creators to…
By Madeline B. Gangnes The 2018 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, “ImageTech: Comics and Materiality,” featured three keynote speakers whose presentations…
By Mita Mahato and Summarized by Madeline Gangnes Mita Mahato’s work explores loss: end-of-life care and death, heartache, identity loss, species extinction, habitat degradation, and climate…
By Aaron Kashtan I am honored and awed to be here. I received my PhD from the University of Florida in 2011 and UF has…
By Anastasia Salter Preface What follows is a reconstruction (from speaker notes and slides) of a keynote delivered at the 2018 University of Florida Conference…
By Claudia Maria Acosta The zines that most librarians and punks-turned-scholars grew up reading, printed matter already limited in quantity and circulation scope, are treated like…
By Allison Bannister The first time I wrapped the box in a scarf, the action was intended to protect it from wind and rain—to hold all…
By Carolina Martins Virtual space, a simple pretext for a nomenclature. But you don’t even need to close your eyes for the space evoked by these…
By Elaine Sponholtz The 2018 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, “ImageTech: Comics and Materiality,” closed with a panel on the role…
By Tomasz Żaglewski Introduction In critiques of comics studies, construed as a methodological and institutional form of academic research dedicated to graphic narratives, one of the…