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A one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity. 4 September 2025, City St George's, University of London. https://comicsandai.org/. Reposts are not endorsements.
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Comics & AI: Critical Prompts is tomorrow! Registration opens tomorrow 9am, reception area, University Building, Northampton Square. Updated schedule, abstracts and speakers bios here: comicsandai.org/schedule-abs... #ComicsAndAI
Schedule, Abstracts, & Bios
The schedule outlines a series of presentations at a comics and AI conference, discussing generative AI’s impact on comics, copyright, creativity, and ethical considerations.
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Can comics and AI ever integrate without threatening human creativity and agency? Dr Linda Berube reports from the #ComicsAndAI conference www.hcid.city/news/thank-y...
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A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who joined Comics & AI: Critical Prompts
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September 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Three resources related to the conference deposited @figshare.com - for what it's worth! Check them out if you haven't already. Good metrics there ;-)
September 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Number of in-person participants: 40. Number of downloads at the time of typing: 86. Number of views: 6,360. Deposited online three days ago. #ComicsAndAI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and Creativity. Book of Abstracts & Bios doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and Creativity. Book of Abstracts & Bios
Comics & AI: Critical Prompts, A one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity, took place on Thursday, 4 September 2025 at City St George’s, University of L...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Quoting Paul Gravett:

"It seems apt that a week ago today, on the same day as our conference [ #ComicsAndAI ], Ilan Manouach was interviewed on @comicsjournal.bsky.social:

www.tcj.com/comics-peopl... "
'Comics people generally hate what I do': The Ilan Manouach Interview - The Comics Journal
Ilan Manouach interviewed by Robert Aman.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The conference's Book of Abstracts & Bios is also now available via City St George's Online, the University's open access research repository: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/35... #ComicsAndAI
City Research Online - Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and Creativity. Book of Abstracts & Bios
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September 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We've deposited a PDF documenting the conference schedule, presentation abstracts, speaker bios, sponsor logos, and acknowledgements. Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and Creativity. Book of Abstracts & Bios doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... #ComicsAndAI
Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and Creativity. Book of Abstracts & Bios
Comics & AI: Critical Prompts, A one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity, took place on Thursday, 4 September 2025 at City St George’s, University of L...
doi.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
For our followers' kind consideration.
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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September 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Finally, our Closing Keynote: Dr Ian Hague: Beyond #NoAI: How Accepting AI Might Change Comics #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Now speaking: Viraj Joshi: Speculation as Resistance: Mundane machine intelligence, a narrowing of futures, and plural counter narratives #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Jane Burns: Comics & AI: The Intersection with Social Innovation Education #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Karrie Fransman on Creating IRL Comics for an AI Future! #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Dr Despoina Farmaki: The Ink Was Never Human: AI, Copyright, and Comics #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Jasleen Kandhari on Drawing the Line: AI & Ethics in Comic Book Character Design #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It's been a thought-provoking and inspiring day; lots of interesting conversations, and we haven't been able to post here in real time! #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Now on: Dr Aaron Humphrey: Tracing nationalist legacies of generative AI #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We are back after the lunch break to begin the second part of the day! Now on Dr Linda Berube: “Intense Routes to Knowing”: Intersections between the Digital Sociology of Comics and AI #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Dr Per Israelson on Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021) #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Dr Julian Lawrence on Fun with AI: Digital Technology Through a Lens of Comics-Based Research #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi on AI, comics, and creativity: or, why are we talking of ghosts in the machine again #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It's now @garethbrookes.bsky.social on The Autographic Witness in the Algorithm! #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
And we are go! Professor Eduardo Alonso kicks off the day #ComicsAndAI
September 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Comics & AI: Critical Prompts is tomorrow! Registration opens tomorrow 9am, reception area, University Building, Northampton Square. Updated schedule, abstracts and speakers bios here: comicsandai.org/schedule-abs... #ComicsAndAI
Schedule, Abstracts, & Bios
The schedule outlines a series of presentations at a comics and AI conference, discussing generative AI’s impact on comics, copyright, creativity, and ethical considerations.
comicsandai.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM