Comics Forum 2024! 👉 Between Bodies: Embodiment and Comics

Comics Forum 2024 Mascots! (Image by Yiqi Zhang)

This November, I had the pleasure of to co-host Comics Forum 2024 with an amazing team from University of the Arts London, Kingston University London,  and City, University of London! 

Comics forum is an annual conference dedicated to comics and graphic novels, held in Leeds, UK, as part of the Thought Bubble Festival, one of the biggest comics festivals in the country.  Founded by Ian Hague in 2009, Comics Forum has become a space for some of the most intriguing and ‘wild’ academic discussions on comics! 

Leeds Central Library, where CF 2024 was held

Leeds Central Library, where CF 2024 was held

Leeds Central Library, where CF 2024 was held

There was actually a manga exhibition going on!

This year, Comics Forum 2024 is all about ‘Between Bodies: Embodiment and Comics’. We have an incredible lineup of speakers who explore a wide range of topics. The central question is: How things are embodied by/through/as comics? (Or, WHO is reading WHOM?) 

Check out the offiicial Comics Forum website to learn more! You’ll find the Call for Paper, the finalised programme and all the speaker abstracts there. 

This was my first experience co-organising a conference, and I’m so grateful to everyone who’ve been supporting and encouraging me throughout the process. A huge thank you to everyone who attended and shared such fascinating insights on topics I’d never even imagined!