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The International Comic Arts Forum
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We're an academic conference dedicated to promoting ​the scholarly study and appreciation of comic art, including comic strips, comic books, comics albums and graphic novels, magazine and newspaper cartooning, caricature, and comics in electronic media.
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Aug 8
The International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) is now accepting applications for three positions on our Executive Committee. We are looking for a Fundraising Coordinator and two Members-at-Large.

Deadline for applications is September 1, 2025. Send a CV/resume and cover letter to [email protected]
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Aug 26
Less than a week to apply!

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#ComicsStudies
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Aug 8
The International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) is now accepting applications for three positions on our Executive Committee. We are looking for a Fundraising Coordinator and two Members-at-Large.

Deadline for applications is September 1, 2025. Send a CV/resume and cover letter to [email protected]
Image of our call for committee members.
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Aug 8
You can find the full call for members here:
www.internationalcomicartsforum.org/call-for-new...
Call for New Ex com Members
Posted August 8 2025
www.internationalcomicartsforum.org
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Aug 8
The International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) is now accepting applications for three positions on our Executive Committee. We are looking for a Fundraising Coordinator and two Members-at-Large.

Deadline for applications is September 1, 2025. Send a CV/resume and cover letter to [email protected]
Image of our call for committee members.
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Jun 18
We have new leadership! This summer Andy Kunka will be starting his term as Chair of the ICAF executive committee. Congrats Andy!
The ICAF logo with the texts that says congrats Andy and photo of Andy Kunka.
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · Apr 13
Day 3 of ICAF 💭Comics International conference💬 ends with the super talented and brilliant comic artist @breenache.bsky.social! They gave a delightful, and insightful artist talk, which I had the pleasure of moderating.

#ICAF2025
#comics
#AftoLatinxComics
A floating comic panel. A split image of Breena's face with a skeleton on the other side. The thought bubble says WE ARE DESCENDENTS OF AFRICAN, INDIGENOUS,AND SPANISH COLON- IZERS... AND WE HOUD ALL STORIES OF CON FUCTY SLAVERY. Then the caption read: ( TuNK ABOUT THE WAY ROQUE DALTON SAID THAT WE ARE A PEOPLE WHO ARE 'HALF DEAD' ITHINK HE WAS TALKIN6 ABOUT HoW OUR BODIES CARRY THE HISTORIES OF CONSTANT WARFARt BETWEEN DIFFERENT RACES. WE AUSO HAVE EXPERIENED VISOAL AND COLTURAL ERASURE TO THE PDINT WHERE DON'T KNOW) ENOUGH ABOUT OUR AFRICAN AND INDIGENOUS ANCESTORS A person standing at a lectern giving a talk. Two people sitting at a desk in front of an audience. They are having a discussion. A floating comic panel of an illustration of central America. Before Breena in a little boat. The speech bubble saysONE OF THe FEW THINGS I KNOW ABOUT AFROSALVADORANS FROM OTHER SALVADORANS IS THAT THEY DONT EXIST I WASN'T CONVINCED THAT EL SALVADOR IS EXCLUSIVELY THE ONLY NON-BLACK COUNTRY WHEN FACTS TELL US THAT THERE ARE BLACK FOLKS IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO.
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Breena Nuñez @breenache.bsky.social · Apr 13
This poster was one of the most fun things I got to do this year, and I hope it captures the spirit of being a student who’s also a working cartoonist at SDSU.
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Apr 9
Presenting our fabulous poster for the 30th ICAF conference! Happening April 10-12, 2025 in San Diego, CA, United States! Designed by the knew and only @breenache.bsky.social!
💬💭💫

#ICAF2025
#ICAF
#comics
#conferences
#SanDiego
#SDSU
Poster of the THE INTERNATIONAL COMIC ARTS FORUM 30th ANNIVERSARY April 10-12 2025. An illustration of a Black comic artist starring on a drawing board with art work coming off the paper, in front of the SDSU. SPECIAL GUESTS Jorge Santos, Mary Fleener, Trino and Breena Nuñez. REGISTER OIR HERE! tinyurl.com/ICAF2025registration San Diego State University California, USA.
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · Apr 11
Day 2 of ICAF Comics Intersections!!! Opening with Lent Scholarship in Comics Studies Award Lecture from Dr. Mathieu Li-Goyette, of Université de Montréal, presenting the the paper "From Chalk Talking to Seriality: On Sidney Smith’s Early Comic Strips.”
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A screen withba conic page of several boxes with a cartoon person doing a bunch of ridiculous things. A person at a lectern giving a paper. A person introducing another person who is sitting down.
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · Apr 10
And that's a wrap on day 1 of ICAF Comics Intersections conference! Ending with artist talk Mary Fleener on "Autobio Comics and the Unflinching Gaze."

#ICAF2025
#ComicsStudies
#conferences
#conference
Two people sit at a table giving a talk in front of an audience.
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · Apr 11
Mary Fleener talks about adapting the work of Zora Neal Hurston into comic form at the ICAF Comics Intersections Conference.

#ICAF2025
Large tv projector with two images. The first image is of a loud geometric artwork of 2 figures. The second image is a cover that says rayzone presents hoo doo. A psychedelic image of a Black woman from the shoulders up. Her eyes look up and her hands out with palms facing the heaven.
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Apr 10
We have a handy accessibility guide for presenters!

#ICAF2025
#conferences
#ComicsStudies

www.internationalcomicartsforum.org/accessibilit...
Accessibility Guidelines
Please use this guide to make your presentation as accessible as possible to fellow conference goers.
www.internationalcomicartsforum.org
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Apr 10
Day one of ICAF Comics Intersections conference! ICAF Chair Brittany Tullis offering welcome remarks. Our ah-mazing site coordinators Beth and Pam introducing us to SDSU library Jorge Santos, Jr giving the first keynote.

#ICAF2025
#ComicsStudies
A sign for the ICAF on front of a digital humanities lab. A person speaking in front of an audience. Two people speaking in front of an audience. A person speaking at a podium in front of an audience.
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Apr 9
Presenting our fabulous poster for the 30th ICAF conference! Happening April 10-12, 2025 in San Diego, CA, United States! Designed by the knew and only @breenache.bsky.social!
💬💭💫

#ICAF2025
#ICAF
#comics
#conferences
#SanDiego
#SDSU
Poster of the THE INTERNATIONAL COMIC ARTS FORUM 30th ANNIVERSARY April 10-12 2025. An illustration of a Black comic artist starring on a drawing board with art work coming off the paper, in front of the SDSU. SPECIAL GUESTS Jorge Santos, Mary Fleener, Trino and Breena Nuñez. REGISTER OIR HERE! tinyurl.com/ICAF2025registration San Diego State University California, USA.
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Mar 28
The ICAF schedule is live! San Diego, April 10-12, 2025.
www.internationalcomicartsforum.org/2025-schedul...
Graphic that says ICAF COMICS INTERSECTIONS Schedule and Activities Are Available! April 10-12, 2025. There are four people, each holding a letter that spells ICAF.
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The International Comic Arts Forum @icafcomic.bsky.social · Mar 19
International Comic Arts Forum presents Comics Intersections conference April 10-12 2025, at San Diego State University.
#ICAF2025
#comics
#ComicsStudies
Flier for conference. International Comic Arts Forum presents comics intersections April 10-12 2025, SDSU San Diego State University.
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