The Medieval Comics Project

The Medieval Comics Project, sponsored by The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, is an ongoing effort conducted by a small (but dedicated) group of comics scholars, Arthurian enthusiasts, and medievalists to compile a comprehensive listing of the representations of the medieval in the comics medium. The corpus is international in scope and extends as far back as (at least) the 1920s. We welcome your help in achieving our goal.

Friday, July 25, 2025

Call for Papers Notice for Kalamazoo and Leeds 2026

Call for Papers Kalamazoo and Leeds 2026

Dear friends of the Medieval Comics Project.

Two updates to share.

First up, Kalamazoo 2026.

We've had much success this summer with session proposals for the 2026 International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo and have been awarded both a panel and workshop on medieval-themed comics.

Please consider submitting a proposal and/or sharing these with your network. Submissions are due by 15 September 2025. Please use the links provided. (The ICMS does offer limited travel awards and grants for subsidized registration; details are available at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/awards.)

Medieval Classics (Re)Illustrated: A Medieval Comics Project Teamup (hybrid): https://icms.confex.com/icms/2026/prelim.cgi/Session/7242.

Medieval literature has long been popular with comics creators as the source for stories and characters, which have been adapted, appropriated, and/or transformed within a variety of comics. In this co-sponsored session we seek, primarily, to unite the disciplines of Comics Studies and Medieval(ism) Studies at large to explore the history of comics adaptations, appropriations, and transformations of medieval literature for their value to our teaching and research. In addition, we hope panelists will also address how these comics can shed insight into a creator’s personal connections to the medieval past and/or their readers’ reception of the content.

The Medieval Comics Project Bibliographies: Resources for Finding and Accessing Comics and Critiques (A Workshop) (virtual): https://icms.confex.com/icms/2026/prelim.cgi/Session/7246.

This workshop session will highlight the recently launched Medieval Comics Project Bibliographies (https://tinyurl.com/MedievalComicsProjectBiblios), an open-access resource devoted to spreading knowledge of comics based on medieval subjects and furthering discussion and debate of this material.

Second, Leeds 2026 (and other events).

Looking ahead a bit further, Natalie Hopwood of Leeds University has offered to organize a session on comics for the 2026 International Medieval Congress under its theme of "Temporalities". If you have ideas for papers, please forward them to me (comics.get.medieval@gmail.com) and Natalie (ennrho@leeds.ac.uk). The conference is hybrid as well.

Do also share with me (comics.get.medieval@gmail.com) any other events that you think would be of value for sharing work on comics.

Thanks for your time,

Michael

Michael A. Torregrossa (he/him/his)

Organizer, The Comics Get Medieval: details at https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/.

Architect: The Medieval Comics Project Bibliographies: https://tinyurl.com/MedievalComicsProjectBiblios.

Founder, The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture: https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/.

Founder, The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain: https://kingarthurforever.blogspot.com/.