Can comics and AI ever integrate without threatening human creativity and agency? Dr Linda Berube reports from the #ComicsAndAI conference www.hcid.city/news/thank-y...

Comics & AI: Critical Prompts

A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who joined Comics & AI: Critical Prompts

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Three resources related to the conference deposited @figshare.com - for what it's worth! Check them out if you haven't already. Good metrics there ;-)

Ernesto Priego@ernestopriego.com · 11mo ago

Comics & AI: Critical Prompts- Open Access Outputs ernestopriego.com/2025/09/26/c...

Number of in-person participants: 40. Number of downloads at the time of typing: 86. Number of views: 6,360. Deposited online three days ago. #ComicsAndAI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and Creativity. Book of Abstracts & Bios doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Quoting Paul Gravett: "It seems apt that a week ago today, on the same day as our conference [ #ComicsAndAI ], Ilan Manouach was interviewed on @comicsjournal.bsky.social: www.tcj.com/comics-peopl... "

'Comics people generally hate what I do': The Ilan Manouach Interview - The Comics Journal

Ilan Manouach interviewed by Robert Aman.

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The conference's Book of Abstracts & Bios is also now available via City St George's Online, the University's open access research repository: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/35... #ComicsAndAI

We've deposited a PDF documenting the conference schedule, presentation abstracts, speaker bios, sponsor logos, and acknowledgements. Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and Creativity. Book of Abstracts & Bios doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... #ComicsAndAI

For our followers' kind consideration.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 12mo ago

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Indeed, thank you so much everyone. #ComicsAndAI

Ernesto Priego@ernestopriego.com · 12mo ago

A quick LinkedIn post about @comicsandai.org yesterday- basically thanking everyone- you guys rock. www.linkedin.com/posts/ernest... #ComicsAndAI

Finally, our Closing Keynote: Dr Ian Hague: Beyond #NoAI: How Accepting AI Might Change Comics #ComicsAndAI

Check all our speakers bios and their papers' abstracts here: comicsandai.org/schedule-abs... #ComicsAndAI

Schedule, Abstracts, & Bios

The schedule outlines a series of presentations at a comics and AI conference, discussing generative AI’s impact on comics, copyright, creativity, and ethical considerations.

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Now speaking: Viraj Joshi: Speculation as Resistance: Mundane machine intelligence, a narrowing of futures, and plural counter narratives #ComicsAndAI

Jane Burns: Comics & AI: The Intersection with Social Innovation Education #ComicsAndAI

Karrie Fransman on Creating IRL Comics for an AI Future! #ComicsAndAI

Dr Despoina Farmaki: The Ink Was Never Human: AI, Copyright, and Comics #ComicsAndAI

Jasleen Kandhari on Drawing the Line: AI & Ethics in Comic Book Character Design #ComicsAndAI

It's been a thought-provoking and inspiring day; lots of interesting conversations, and we haven't been able to post here in real time! #ComicsAndAI

Now on: Dr Aaron Humphrey: Tracing nationalist legacies of generative AI #ComicsAndAI

We are back after the lunch break to begin the second part of the day! Now on Dr Linda Berube: “Intense Routes to Knowing”: Intersections between the Digital Sociology of Comics and AI #ComicsAndAI

Dr Per Israelson on Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021) #ComicsAndAI

Dr Julian Lawrence on Fun with AI: Digital Technology Through a Lens of Comics-Based Research #ComicsAndAI

Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi on AI, comics, and creativity: or, why are we talking of ghosts in the machine again #ComicsAndAI

It's now @garethbrookes.bsky.social on The Autographic Witness in the Algorithm! #ComicsAndAI

And we are go! Professor Eduardo Alonso kicks off the day #ComicsAndAI

Comics & AI: Critical Prompts is tomorrow! Registration opens tomorrow 9am, reception area, University Building, Northampton Square. Updated schedule, abstracts and speakers bios here: comicsandai.org/schedule-abs... #ComicsAndAI

Schedule, Abstracts, & Bios

The schedule outlines a series of presentations at a comics and AI conference, discussing generative AI’s impact on comics, copyright, creativity, and ethical considerations.

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Schedule, abstracts, and speakers bios now up! comicsandai.org/schedule-abs... Can't wait for Thursday!

Schedule, Abstracts, & Bios

The schedule outlines a series of presentations at a comics and AI conference, discussing generative AI’s impact on comics, copyright, creativity, and ethical considerations.

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You can still join us.

Comics & AI: Critical Prompts@comicsandai.org · 12mo ago

Last chance to register to attend Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity on 4 September 2025 @citystgeorges.bsky.social! Don't miss out! Details & tickets: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... Reg. closes tomorrow.

Last chance to register to attend Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity on 4 September 2025 @citystgeorges.bsky.social! Don't miss out! Details & tickets: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... Reg. closes tomorrow.

Time flies! Don't miss out. :) #ComicsStudies #GenAI

Comics & AI: Critical Prompts@comicsandai.org · last yr.

Kind reminder deadline to register to attend Comics & AI: a one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity @citystgeorges.bsky.social is this Friday! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #ComicsStudies #GenAI

Kind reminder deadline to register to attend Comics & AI: a one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity @citystgeorges.bsky.social is this Friday! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #ComicsStudies #GenAI

Registration deadline for Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity is next week, 22nd August 2025. Check the programme and get your ticket at www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... Don't miss out!