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Regular readers for this blog might have wondered why, after 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, there was clearly no blogpost from the 2016 ComFor (German Society for Comics Studies) seminar. There clearly was a straightforward reason behind that: we hadn’t attended year’s conference that is last. Fourteen days ago, nonetheless, we took the journey to Bonn where this year’s conference (subject: “Comics and their Popularity”) happened. Take note that listed here records aren’t designed to acceptably summarise the particular seminar paper; alternatively they’re rather subjective and random – thus the name with this blogpost.

The seminar began on Friday, December 1 aided by the Workshops” that is“Open.e. Documents not in the meeting theme of “Comics and their Popularity”.

• The presentation that is first by Zita Husing (Bonn) on “Being and Nature: the importance of this Southern Space associated with the Swamp in Alan Moore’s The Saga associated with the Swamp Thing” for which she submit connections between tropes regarding the United states South and Swamp Thing, e.g. That both are difficult to kill – no matter just how defectively they’re maimed or burned down, they constantly keep coming back through the dead. Like was remarked into the conversation afterward, nevertheless, it is interesting how article writers after Moore, such as for example Jeff Lemire, have actually expanded Swamp Thing’s backstory into a cosmology that shifts the focus through the regional towards the international. More