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Comics Arts Conference - SDCC [CLOSED - deadline has passed]

For 2021, Comic-Con is preparing for a live, in-person show, but plan accordingly just in case we must present virtual panels online again.

CONTENT: The Comics Arts Conference welcomes submissions focused on aspects of sequential art: graphic storytelling in the form of comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels. We regret we are unable to accept submissions concentrating primarily on other media or popular culture in general.

EQUIPMENT: The CAC provides a projector with a DVD player and a laptop computer connection. There will no longer be a laptop on site for your convenience with PowerPoint, Keynote, or QuickTime, so you will have to bring your own. We can thus probably accommodate DVDs, CDs, laptops, and flash drives. If your laptop is a Mac, please bring your own video adapter. The video connection is usually HDMI these days.

REGISTRATION: If your paper is accepted, do not pay for Comic-Con registration. (If you have already paid, we may be able to get that payment refunded to you.) CAC presenters attend Comic-Con with professional passes, with no registration fee for Comic-Con or CAC.

GUEST: You may bring ONE guest who can also attend with free registration. After submissions are accepted, we will then ask for your guest information. A guest pass may not be sold or otherwise transferred to anyone other than the individual whose name appears on it.

HOTEL: San Diego hotel rooms have been filling faster and faster. You should probably reserve your room (preferably something you can cancel without penalty if necessary) as early as possible, long before we finalize our schedule and send panel acceptance/rejection notifications.

Please be aware that this SurveyMonkey system DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE CONFIRMATION MESSAGES, but we have never known it to fail to store a submission.

STRICT DEADLINE: ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE DEADLINE OR THEY WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED, NO MATTER WHO THEY’RE FROM. 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 1

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* 1. Your Information
Your name, last name first (affiliation), country, email.
Example:
Prince, Diana (Paradise Island University), Themyscira, diana@ParadiseIsland.gov

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* 2. Names and Affiliations as They Should Appear in the Program. Then identify what each will contribute to the scholarly presentation. Only include presenters who will attend conference and actively participate in the presentation. If you have multiple presenters, provide the information about all of them here. Example: Diana Prince (Paradise Island University) will report on her biography of Elizabeth Holloway Marston.

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* 3. In the text box provided below, please enter your 100-200 word abstract.

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* 4. Presentation or panel title. Whatever you want to call it is up to you, but we may have to shorten lengthier titles when entering them in the conference program. (Include only one title.)

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* 5. Provide a one-sentence summary of your abstract. At the end of your abstract, list keywords to help us sort submissions (e.g., KEYWORDS: Black Panther, Jack Kirby, gender studies, comics history, psychology, empirical data). Please suggest at least two keywords.

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* 6. Method of presentation

Given programming constraints, we will not be able to accept all proposals of any type.

You are welcome to check more than one method - for example, that you're willing to present either a poster or an individual presentation.

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* 7. If you picked more than one method of presentation, which would be your preference? What's your FIRST choice?

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* 8. Have you previously been a CAC presenter, whether at Comic-Con in San Diego or at WonderCon in San Francisco?
If panelists are not experienced CAC presenters, we may assign a moderator.

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* 9. Please enter your bio of 50-100 words. (Longer is okay, but we may have to trim it for the CAC program.)

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* 10. If you would are submitting a panel as a set of individual presentations (e.g., a set of three presentations that go together, each about 15 minutes long) and want the individual presentations to be considered for CAC even if the rest of the panel is rejected, please submit the panel itself as one submission AND enter each presentation into this website separately. If this particular submission is one of the individual presentations within such a panel, identify your full panel's title HERE so we'll know what goes with what. Otherwise, leave this blank.

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