Robert Aman, Associate Professor in Education at Linköping University chronicles the adult comics boom in Sweden in the mid 80s and it’s originator, Horst Schröder in The Comics Journal. Amply illustrated!

Robert Aman, Associate Professor in Education at Linköping University chronicles the adult comics boom in Sweden in the mid 80s and it’s originator, Horst Schröder in The Comics Journal. Amply illustrated!
Thursday 9 March 2023, 5.30pm GMT Online – Registration required
This event is part of the Oxford Comics Network Seminar Series.
Thursday 9 March 2023 (Week 8) – Registration required
Register via Eventbrite or contact comics@torch.ox.ac.uk
This talk explores the Gothic qualities of the 1970s British girls’ comics Spellbound (DC Thomson, 1976-77) and Misty (IPC, 1978-80). It asks how Gothic works in a visual medium like comics and analyses the ways in which these titles rework Gothic themes and tropes into metaphors for the real-life experiences of young female readers. It opens by giving some background to the presence of horror and the supernatural in 1970s children’s media, and the emergence of Spellbound and Misty as the part of the ‘third wave’ (or dark wave) of British girls’ comics. It then moves to explore the content of both titles, considering Gothic aesthetics (Farber 1972, Spooner 2017), the presence of horror and terror (Radcliffe 1826) and Gothic tropes (such as mirrors, masks, veils, transformation and so forth). It points towards the ways that these qualities are adapted in these stories to fit the concerns of young female readers, and concludes by suggesting that these adaptations form the basis of a ‘Gothic for Girls’ that can be recognised across many other texts and media.
Julia Round is Associate Professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. Her books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014), Comics and Graphic Novels (2022), and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019). She is one of the founders and editors of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series. She shares her work at www.juliaround.com.
Det har aldrig sålts så många serietidningar som på 70-talet. Kalle Anka, Fantomen, Min Häst, Bamse och 91:an, men också skräckserier, krigsserier, romantikserier och några misslyckade försök att introducera serier i följetongsformat. Pidde Andersson (f. 1968), manusförfattare till serier sedan 1989 och ledamot av Svenska Serieakademin kartlägger tillsammans med Gunnar Krantz (f. 1962), serietecknare och konstnärlig professor, denna guldålder i ett samtal på Malmö universitet. Samtalet utgår från varsin hög med särskilt utvalda serietidningar och sker på K3 Open Studio, Niagara.
Torsdag 16 mars kl 13.00 – 15.00 Nordenskiöldsgatan 1 och på zoom:
https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/63982083307
Samtalet är arrangerat av Malmö University Comics Hub, i samverkan med Seriearkivet.
Välkomna till ett seminarium om tecknade serier och arbetarlitteratur som anordnas i samarbete mellan Nordiskt nätverk för arbetarlitteraturforskning och Malmö University Comics Hub .
Seminariet hålls 8 mars 15:00 och man kan delta såväl ”live” (i rum NIB0826 på Malmö universitet) som via Zoom (https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/68248942070?from=addon)
Vid seminariet presenteras två ”work in progress” som båda handlar om arbetarlitteratur och tecknade serier:
Gregg Bucken-Knapp & Joonas Sildre
Welcome to the joint GP, MIM and RUCARR seminar, where Prof. Gregg Bucken-Knapp, School of Public Administration at the University of Gothenburg, presents his new book “Messages from Ukraine”, co-authored with comic artist, illustrator, and graphic designer Joonas Sildre.
When: October 25, 3.15–5.00 CET
Where: Zoom link https://mau-se.zoom.us/s/66628861480
2 september 2022
Fullständigt program i pdf-format: https://comics.uni.mau.se/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/08/2022_PROG_SKF_6_WEB.pdf
PROGRAM FREDAG 2/9:
Skillinge teater och zoom. Alla tider CET.
Zoom-länk: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/66664381357
10:00 – 11:00
Titel: Serier och sinnesintryck i skolan
Lars Wallner, universitetslektor, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande (IBL), Linköpings universitet.
11:00 – 12:00
Titel: Självsyn och världsbild i tecknade serier
Kristina Arnerud Mejhammar, intendent vid Norrköpings konstmuseum.
12.00 – 13.00
Titel: Visuella genealogier i Persepolis – persisk konst och den franska nya vågen.
Fredrik Strömberg, journalist, författare och fil. doktor i Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00
Titel: Manga, en affektiv form av serier
Jaqueline Berndt, professor i Japans språk och kultur, Stockholms universitet.
15.00 – 16.00
Titel: Svenska feministiska serier och aktivism
Anna Nordenstam, professor i litteraturvetenskap, Göteborgs universitet och Margareta Wallin Wictorin, docent i konst- och bildvetenskap, Karlstads universitet
16.00 – 17.00
Titel: Serier i fackförbundspressen
Magnus Nilsson, professor i komparativ litteratur, Institutionen för Konst, Kultur och Kommunikation, K3, Malmö universitet.
Malmö University Comics Hub will present ongoing projects at Seriescenen, hosted by the Swedish Comics Association. Thursday September 22nd at 15.00 (CET). More information will follow.
Malmö University Comics Hub will visit Skillinge Comics Festival September 2nd, with a one-day long program of presentations of recent research. Presentations will take place at Skillinge Theatre and online (zoom). Full program will follow.
Joe Kessler, comics artist and art director at Breakdown Press is visiting Malmö University as a IASPIS-resident during three months in 2022. March 31st he presented his new book Måsvarrelsen (Lystring) at Rum för Serier. August 24th he will present recent work at Malmö Konsthall and also lead a masterclass in risographic print.