Conference: Academic Perspectives on Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels - Sweden, April 16-18:

Academic Perspectives on Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels
as Intercultural & Intermedial Phenomena
The Forum for Intermedial Studies
Växjö University, Sweden
April 16-18 2009

Check the conference website for lots of information, including abstracts as well as a PDF of the Preliminary programme. The keynote speakers will be Paul Gravett (United Kingdom), Thierry Groensteen (France), and Helena Magnusson (Sweden).

This reminder courtesy of Fredrik Strömberg, who notes that this will be "the first major academic conference on comics in Sweden."

Does anyone have a spare plane ticket to Europe they're willing to donate? :-)

Image Credit: A.K. Westin