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Five-Day Glasgow & Dundee Comics Conference!
Posted: July 2, 2013
Glasgow and Dundee hosted this year’s five-day double-whammy of the annual International Comics & Graphic Novel Conference and the biannual International Bande Dessinée Society Conference. While absent North American friends Robert Beerbohm and Bart Beaty were much missed, the conference welcomed back plenty of other colleagues in Comics Studies and attracted many first-timers from around the world, notably from Brazil and Turkey, as well as creators like Grant Morrison, who gave the opening keynote, and French guests Tanitoc, Nicola Witko and new Asterix scriptwriter Jean-Yves Ferri. Thanks to the University of Glasgow for letting us see wonderful rarities from their special collections, including a gloriously coloured edition of The Glasgow Looking Glass from 1825, and to Morris Heggie for his selection and tour commentary of a display of Dudley Watkins’ original artworks. I always find the sharing and exchanging of information and ideas at these conferences truly stimulating and inspiring. Thanks to all the organisers and delegates for making this 2013 session such a pleasure.
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