Explore Comics & AI at City St George’s, 4 Sept 2025

~ Ernesto Priego
The image is a black-and-white illustrated poster promoting an academic event titled "COMICS & AI: Critical Prompts." The illustration style mimics hand-drawn comic art with cross-hatching for shading. Visual Elements: On the left side, a cute cartoon robot is depicted coming out of a laptop screen. The robot has a round head with large black circular eyes and a small antenna on top. It's holding a pencil in one hand as if ready to draw. Around the robot, there are floating icons symbolizing creativity: lightbulbs, stars, and another pencil. On the right side, there is a drawing of a woman with wavy dark hair, wearing a sweater. She is gesturing with one hand and has an expression that suggests she is speaking thoughtfully. Above her is a speech bubble that reads: "A multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity." Text Details: The main title is bold and prominent at the top: COMICS & AI: CRITICAL PROMPTS At the bottom, the date and venue are clearly stated: THURSDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2025 CITY ST GEORGE’S, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

We cordially invite you to “Comics & AI: Critical Prompts”, a one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity.

Proceedings on Thursday 4 September 2025, 10am-6pm at City St George’s, University of London, Northampton Square (Clerkenwell Campus), London, UK.

We are calling scholars, technologists, artists, writers, designers, and practitioners to propose 20-minute papers, discussion panels, and artist’s demos.

Abstracts (200 words) + bios (100 words) due: 10 July 2025

Full call for papers and details here. (https://comicsandai.org/)
If you prefer a PDF of the Call for Papers, you can download it from https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29069522

Tickets and registration here: https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2025/september/comics-and-ai-critical-prompts

Accepted scholarly presentations will be considered for inclusion in an academic collected edition.

We are hoping for a packed programme engaging with creative, technical, theoretical, and practical questions around generative AI, including tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL·E; copyright and law; ethics, bias, and environmental concerns; as well as style, creativity, and user experience.

Registration fee:

  • £15 (academics/professionals)
  • £5 (students/unwaged).

Registration deadline: 4 August 2025.

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to rethink comics and AI with a multidisciplinary community!

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Published by Ernesto Priego

My passion is creating opportunities for discovery, creativity and innovation. I am an advocate for enhanced access to information as a public good. I enjoy fostering engagement and openness, facilitating collaboration and mentoring. My main focus is multi-disciplinary and involves practically and theoretically connecting the dots between varied, closely-related fields and topics: comics studies; human-computer interaction design, library and information science, digital humanities, scholarly communications, publishing studies, digital innovation and material culture, intellectual rights and open science, access, data and educational resources. I love writing and spreading the word about the things I believe in. I love higher education and the Internet and I define myself as a digital scholarship advocate. I love working collaboratively and on my own. You can still follow me and/or contact me via Twitter @ernestopriego.