A Straw

I see that one of the papers being delivered at the Manchester Metropolitan University conference “The Aesthetics of Trash: Reassessing Animation and the Comic” today and tomorrow is “The European Graphic Novel from Töpffer to Today” by Paul Gravett.

Is it too much to hope that this might be the start of a volume on bandes dessinées, to match his books on Manga and Great British Comics?

The full list of papers is at BugPowder (which has no permalinks, so scroll down to 22 August).