CFP Intersection of Cartoons/Animation/Youth Media (Spec Issue of ChLAQ) (11/1/16)

Of related interest:

The Intersection of Cartoons, Animation, and Youth Media: A Special Issue of Children's Literature Association Quarterly
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/61774
full name / name of organization:
Joseph Michael Sommers/ in association with the Children's Literature Association
contact email:
somme1jm@cmich.edu
-Call For Papers-

The Intersection of Cartoons, Animation, and Youth Media:
A Special Issue of Children's Literature Association Quarterly

Edited by Joseph Michael Sommers
Deadline: 1 November 2016

In connection with the upcoming 2016 ChLA conference on Animation, this special issue of ChLAQ will focus broadly and widely on that multimodal and ever-expanding medium known as youth animation. From children's cartoon shorts such as Walt Disney's Steamboat Willy (1928) and Leon Schlesinger's Looney Tunes (1930-1969); to full-length animated motion pictures such as the work of Studio Ghibli, Pixar, and Nickelodeon; to Homestar Runner, video games, and flip books, if it's sequential art put into motion, it's on the table for discussion.

The Quarterly invites papers that craft, extend, and/or disrupt existing discussions, including (but certainly not limited to):

- Histor(-ies) of children's animation (from the Walt Disney, Fleischers, and Warners forward to the Hanna Barbera and Terrytoon Television era and all stops in between and beyond)

- The adoption of animation intended for other audiences and venues to an audience of children (The Flintstones, Looney Tunes, The Simpsons, etc.)

- New Frontiers of Animation (modes and media, interactivity, video games, etc.)

- The commodification of and interaction between animated media and revenue streams (animation as product tie-in/commercial for toys and games [Barbie, GI Joe, Transformers, Disney Princesses, etc.])

- Adaption of print media into animation and further transmedia

- Difference in animation (broadly ­from cultural and global perspectives, styles, historical perspectives etc.)

- Stop motion, CGI, puppetry, and other operative modes in the creation of animation

- Sex(-ing) and gender(-ing) in animation for youth culture

- Close readings of animated properties.

Papers should conform to the usual style of ChLAQ and be between 5,000-7,000 words in length.

Queries and completed essays should be sent to Joseph Michael Sommers (somme1jm@cmich.edu with a re: line indicating "ChLAQ Essay") by 1 November 2016.

The selected articles will appear in ChLAQ in 2017.

By web submission at 04/12/2015 - 19:10

CFP Animation Conference Theme (no deadline; Columbus, OH 6/9-11/16)

Came across the following by accident today. It sounds like a great venue. Source: http://www.childlitassn.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=435346&orgId=chla.

2016 Conference of the Children's Literature Association

Hosted by The Ohio State University

Sponsored by the Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology

June 9 - 11, 2016
Columbus, OH
The Sheraton Columbus at Capitol Square

Conference Theme:  “Animation”

The theme for ChLA 2016 is “Animation.”  This concept reflects new developments in both the aesthetic creation and the critical analysis of children’s and YA literature.  The idea of “Animation” has a special significance for OSU, given the campus’ well-known comics collection and cartoon museum, its Wexner Center for the Arts, and its Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design (ACCAD).  Moreover, we feel that the theme “Animation”— defined variously as “inspiration, vivacity and liveliness” as well as “continuous motion or shape change”—will inspire a wide variety of possible paper topics.  These might include:

• picture books and illustration
• graphic novels for young readers
• Jerry Griswold’s notion in Feeling Like a Kid of “aliveness” as a key feature in texts for young readers:  toys coming to life, anthropomorphized animals, etc.
• Comics and cartoons for young people
• critical practice as an animating act, bringing historically neglected authors and texts to the attention of current readers
• birth, aging, and the life cycle
• Animation from the standpoint of science and technology:  in the form of machinery, mechanics, and energy in books for young readers
• Shape shifting and morphing
• children’s media: film, cartoons, television, video games
• the animation of texts that occurs in classroom settings through activities like read-alouds
• electronic books and digital storytelling
• children’s and YA literature in performance:  stage plays, musicals, book trailers, etc. 

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The conference organizers are pleased to announce that Gene Luen Yang will be a featured speaker.  He will be giving a talk and book signing on the evening of Thursday, June 9!

Gene Luen Yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade. In 1997, he received a Xeric Grant for Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks, his first comics work. He has since written and drawn a number of titles, includingDuncan’s Kingdom, The Rosary Comic Book, Prime Baby and Animal Crackers.American Born Chinese, his first graphic novel from First Second, was a National Book Award finalist, as well as the winner of the Printz Award and an Eisner Award. He also won an Eisner for The Eternal Smile, a collaboration with Derek Kirk Kim. Recently, he has been working on the comics series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Yang lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The 2016 Francelia Butler lecture, "Children's Comics, Past and Present," will be co-presented by:

Charles Hatfield - Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, author of Alternative Comics (2005) and the Eisner Award-winning Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby (2011) and co-editor of The Superhero Reader (2013). He has served on the boards of the International Comic Arts Forum (1997-2009) and MLA Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives (2010-2013). His essays on children’s comics have appeared in The Lion and the Unicorn, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Oxford Handbook of Children’s Literature (2011), and Keywords for Children’s Literature (NYU Press, 2011). Charles is currently curating a Kirby exhibition and co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Comics.

Joe Sutliff Sanders - Associate Professor in the Children's Literature track of the English Department at Kansas State University.  He is the author of a book about classic orphan girl novels (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011) and the co-editor, with Jackie C. Horne, of a collection of essays about The Secret Garden (Scarecrow, 2011).  In 2011, Joe received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and in 2013 he was the Fulbright fellow to the University of Luxembourg.  Joe is the editor of a collection of essays about the Belgian cartoonist Hergé (University Press of Mississippi, 2016) and the author of new and forthcoming essays on picture books, manga, digital comics, and the history of children's comics.

Location: The Sheraton Columbus, Ohio

For more information:

Contact: Association Manager
Phone: 630-571-4520
Email:  conference@childlitassn.org