[John Edward Martin]

With their innovative publishing strategies and brand discipline, Archie Comics is one of the most successful and longest-running brands in the comics industry. In its 80-plus year history, Archie has expanded its universe from the humble confines of Riverdale and its comic-romantic teen cast﹘Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and their friends﹘into an ever-growing multitude of characters, settings, genres, and media that has generated broad popular appeal for both American and international audiences. The brand has grown from spinoff comics like Archie’s Pal Jughead (1949) and Archie’s Girls Betty & Veronica (1950), to cartoons like Josie and the Pussycats (1970) or The New Archies (1987), more recently developing into television shows like Riverdale (2017) and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018), as well as recent films like The Archies (2023). We have seen the characters grow, change, diversify, and inhabit a variety of alternate realities and identities, including Stone Age teens, adult rock stars, superheroes, space-faring adventurers, noir detectives, time travelers, and supernatural monsters. Archie comics are, in many ways, the original “multiverse”﹘an evolving space of experimentation, alternate visions, artistic choices, and social reflections.

This virtual conference seeks to explore this multiverse from a variety of disciplinary, artistic, and theoretical perspectives by bringing together scholars, teachers, students, artists, librarians, creators and others with an interest in comics, sequential art, film, music, fashion, and popular culture. The Committee invites proposals for 15-minute individual papers, pre-formed panels or roundtables, media objects (such as critical making, comics, video, Twine, or performance), posters or infographics, and pedagogy or other workshops that focus on any aspect of the Archieverse.

See the link below for more details, topics, and submission link. Submit proposals by February 2, 2024.

CFP: https://dcsco-op.org/into-the-archieverse/ 

[John Edward Martin]

The deadline for this CFP has been extended to March 10, 2024!

Please submit your proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, or media objects today!  And share this CFP with your networks.

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