The International Comic Arts Forum is an annual 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.
Our 19th annual conference will take place Thursday, November 2nd through Saturday, November 4th, 2017 at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Guests and speakers for 2017 include Jesús Cossio, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Emil Ferris, Gary Groth, Moto Hagio, Nick Sousanis, and Jim Woodring.