[CLOSED] Comics Arts Conference - WonderCon (Spring, 2021)

Comic Arts Conference - WonderCon [CLOSED - DEADLINE HAS PASSED]

For 2021, WonderCon 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.

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 (VGA). There will no longer be a laptop on site for your convenience, 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 laptop computer connection is usually HDMI as well as VGA 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 the entire convention 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.

Please be aware that this SurveyMonkey system does not automatically generate confirmation emails, but we have never known it to fail to store a correctly entered submission.

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

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 1 [CLOSED - DEADLINE HAS PASSED]

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* 1. Contact Information for Individual Making Submission

Your Name, Last Name First. Example: Prince, Diana *

Your Affiliation Example: Paradise Island University

Country

Email Address *

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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.

1st presenter - e.g., Diana Prince (Paradise Island University) will report on her biography of Elizabeth Holloway Marston.

2nd presenter - e.g., Alan Scott (Sentinel Enterprises) outlines parallels between Wonder Woman and Wonder Man.

3rd presenter - e.g., Charles McNider, MD (Midnight Medical Hospital), describes his empirical research using fMRI to study comic book readers.

If more than three presenters, list all others here - e.g., Jay Garrick (Keystone University) - respondent. Dinah Lance (DC Comics) moderates.

Email addresses for all co-presenters. Separate by commas.

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* 3. Presentation title. Whatever you call your paper 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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* 4. Provide an abstract of your presentation, 100-200 words in length.

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* 5. Details

Provide a one-sentence summary of your abstract.

List keywords to help us sort submissions (e.g., Black Panther, Jack Kirby, gender studies, comics history, psychology, empirical data). Please suggest at least two.

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* 6. Method of presentation

Given programming constraints, we may not be able to accept all panel proposals. If you would like to submit a prearranged panel of three 20-minute presentations, please enter each presentation into this website separately, in addition to your panel submission, and indicate the larger panel above in box 4. If your panel is accepted, you are responsible for providing the names and contact information of ALL panel members to the CAC.

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION: An oral presentation of 15-20 minutes can be delivered as either a formal paper or a less formal presentation. (We will group individual presenters together by topic for scheduling purposes.)

PANEL (MULTIPLE PRESENTATIONS): Each speaker makes a formal presentation. A panel allows more flexibility in terms of number of presenters and delivery method, but can run no longer than 80 minutes (20 min. per speaker if 3 presentations or 15 minutes per speaker if 4; plus 20 minutes for Q&A).

PANEL DISCUSSION (ROUNDTABLE): After formal introduction of topic, the roundtable typically consists of a discussion among panelists. Do not run longer than 50 minutes.

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* 7. If you checked more than one method of presentation, please indicate if you have a preference between them. Which would be your FIRST choice?

Individual presentation.

Panel (multiple presentations).

Panel discussion (roundtable).

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* 8. Have you previously been a CAC presenter, whether at San Diego Comic-Con International or at WonderCon?

Yes, I have previously been a Comics Arts Conference presenter at San Diego Comic-Con.

Yes, I have previously been a Comics Arts Conference presenter at WonderCon.

No, I have not previously been a Comics Arts Conference presenter.

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* 9. Please enter your bio(s) of 50-100 words each.

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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.
If you are submitting a roundtable, make only one submission (this one) to cover the entire panel.