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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 @comicsandai.org · Sep 3
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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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For our followers' kind consideration.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
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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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Indeed, thank you so much everyone. #ComicsAndAI
September 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Finally, our Closing Keynote: Dr Ian Hague: Beyond #NoAI: How Accepting AI Might Change Comics #ComicsAndAI
Closing Keynote: Dr Ian Hague, Associate Dean of Research at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London: Beyond #NoAI: How Accepting AI Might Change Comics, stands front of lecture theatre behind pod, behind Ian two large screens with slides, Should we use AI? How should we use AI and for what purposes?
September 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Check all our speakers bios and their papers' abstracts 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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September 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Now speaking: Viraj Joshi: Speculation as Resistance: Mundane machine intelligence, a narrowing of futures, and plural counter narratives #ComicsAndAI
Viraj Joshi stands at the front of the lecture theatre behind the pod, four screens visible, slide with "A narrowing of futures" as title
September 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Jane Burns: Comics & AI: The Intersection with Social Innovation Education #ComicsAndAI
Jane Burns, The Intersection with Social Innovation Education, stands at front of lecture theatre, slides behind
September 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Karrie Fransman on Creating IRL Comics for an AI Future! #ComicsAndAI
Karrie Fransman on Creating IRL Comics for an AI Future at the front of the lecture theatre, members of the audience visible, slides on screens
September 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Dr Despoina Farmaki: The Ink Was Never Human: AI, Copyright, and Comics #ComicsAndAI
Dr Despoina Farmaki, The Ink Was Never Human: AI, Copyright, and Comics stands at podium, title slides behind on screens
September 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Jasleen Kandhari on Drawing the Line: AI & Ethics in Comic Book Character Design #ComicsAndAI
Jasleen Kandhari on Drawing the Line: AI & Ethics in Comic Book Character Design , she sits at the lecture theatre pod with screens behind her
September 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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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
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Now on: Dr Aaron Humphrey: Tracing nationalist legacies of generative AI #ComicsAndAI
Dr Aaron Humphrey at the front of the lecture theatre with two screens behind presenting on Tracing nationalist legacies of generative AI with slide titled Image & Nation
September 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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
Dr Linda Berube at the front of the lecture theatre with two screens behind her showing her title slide, “Intense Routes to Knowing”: Intersections between the Digital Sociology of Comics and AI
September 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Dr Per Israelson on Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021) #ComicsAndAI
Dr Per Israelson on Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021) Dr Per Israelson on Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021)
September 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Dr Julian Lawrence on Fun with AI: Digital Technology Through a Lens of Comics-Based Research #ComicsAndAI
Dr Julian Lawrence at lecture theatre pod, two screens behind with his slides, one comics panel on a white space Dr Julian Lawrence at lecture theatre pod, two screens behind with his slides, two comics panels on a white space
September 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi on AI, comics, and creativity: or, why are we talking of ghosts in the machine again #ComicsAndAI
Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi with his slides on the two screens behind him on image generation, memory and latent space Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi, slides behind on screens, title comics swiping
September 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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It's now @garethbrookes.bsky.social on The Autographic Witness in the Algorithm! #ComicsAndAI
Gareth Brooks at the podium with his title slides on the screens behind him Gareth Brookes speaking with slides behind showing Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde graphic novel covers by Joe Sacco
September 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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And we are go! Professor Eduardo Alonso kicks off the day #ComicsAndAI
Professor Ed Alonso, screens behind with Gen 101 for Comics title slide Professor Ed Alonso, screens behind with slide with 1980s comics covers
September 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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.
comicsandai.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM