Comics Memory Archives and Styles

“Comics Memory succeeds at addressing the role of memory in comics and the role of comics in memory from new vantage points, opening up new avenues for research on the subject. … it also proposes new methodologies to examine memory and memory culture more generally.” (Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam, Image & Narrative, Vol. 20 (1), 2019)

Maaheen Ahmed is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at Ghent University, Belgium. She is currently working on possibilities for conceptualizing the relationship between comics and different kinds of memories, ranging from personal memories to collective and medium-based ones. Her books include  Openness of Comics  (2016) and  Le Statut culturel de la bande dessinée/The Cultural Standing of Comics  (2017), co-edited with Stéphanie Delneste and Jean-Louis Tilleuil. She recently received an ERC Starting Grant for her project on children in European comics.

Benoît Crucifix is a FRS-FNRS doctoral fellow at the University of Liège and UCLouvain, Belgium. His thesis focuses on the cultural memory of comics in the contemporary graphic novel. His research on comics memory has been published in European Comic Art , The Comics Grid , Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and Inks . He isa member of the ACME Comics Research Group and of the editorial board of Comicalités .