Comic Lives

Recent comedy specials showcase comedians’ intersection of the comic and autobiographical, mining lives for social commentary as well as jokes. How to read comics’ life stories as auto/biography, testimony, performance? 300-word abstracts; bios.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019

Laurie McNeill, U of British Columbia (laurie.mcneill@ubc.ca ); John David Zuern, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa (zuern@hawaii.edu )