The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference, 4th September, at the Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome. Remote participation can be considered.
Draft program
14:15-14:30 Arrival and welcome
14:30-16:00 Panel 1 (full papers)
- Martin Foret and Petra Foretová: Hypercomics as upgrade – and as downgrade of comics. The gains and losses of digital comics on the journey from webcomics to postcomics.
- Giorgio Busi Rizzi: Webcomics as a provocation to comics meaning-making: the case of L’immeuble by Vidu.
- Svitlana Pidoprygora: Webcomics and Documenting War in Ukraine.
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:00 Panel 2 (position papers)
- Francesca Benatti: Researching webcomics. A cautionary tale.
- Linda Berube: Hovering Hypertext! Comics Readers Interacting and Having Fun
- Ernesto Priego: “Into the Bowels of the Information Organism”: Setting Webcomics in a Historical Context
17:00-18:00 Roundtable discussion and next steps