Comics & AI: Critical Prompts

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A one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity. 4 September 2025, City St George's, University of London. https://comicsandai.org/. Reposts are not endorsements.

Closing Keynote: Dr Ian Hague, Associate Dean of Research at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London: Beyond #NoAI: How Accepting AI Might Change Comics, stands front of lecture theatre behind pod, behind Ian two large screens with slides, Should we use AI? How should we use AI and for what purposes?
Viraj Joshi stands at the front of the lecture theatre behind the pod, four screens visible, slide with "A narrowing of futures" as title
Jane Burns, The Intersection with Social Innovation Education, stands at front of lecture theatre, slides behind
Karrie Fransman on Creating IRL Comics for an AI Future at the front of the lecture theatre, members of the audience visible, slides on screens
Dr Despoina Farmaki, The Ink Was Never Human: AI, Copyright, and Comics stands at podium, title slides behind on screens
Jasleen Kandhari on Drawing the Line: AI & Ethics in Comic Book Character Design , she sits at the lecture theatre pod with screens behind her
Dr Aaron Humphrey at the front of the lecture theatre with two screens behind presenting on Tracing nationalist legacies of generative AI with slide titled Image & Nation
Dr Linda Berube at the front of the lecture theatre with two screens behind her showing her title slide, “Intense Routes to Knowing”: Intersections between the Digital Sociology of Comics and AI
Dr Per Israelson on Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021)
Dr Julian Lawrence at lecture theatre pod, two screens behind with his slides, one comics panel on a white space
Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi with his slides on the two screens behind him on image generation, memory and latent space
Gareth Brooks at the podium with his title slides on the screens behind him
Professor Ed Alonso, screens behind with Gen 101 for Comics title slide
Professor Steph Wilson in the lecture theatre, standing, speaking behind computer pod, with two large screens behind her showing the Comics & AI poster