IGNCC 2026
What I have said is unanswerable
Truth, post truth and damn lies in Comics and Graphic Novels
In-person event, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Wednesday 17 June – Friday 19 June 2026
Online event:
Wednesday 24 – Friday 26 June 2026
Once truth and lies were simple concepts. The 21st century destabilisation of truth has led to the emergence of post-truth. Post-truth is a term coined in the Oxford English Dictionary 2016 in response to concerns over assertions that facts do not matter in political and social discourse so much as emotions and individual subjective truths. There are many comics examples that explore ideas of truth, co-factuality, alternate temporalities as well as conspiracy theories and counter-narratives. Post-truths are associated with phrases such as ‘fake news’ ‘propaganda’, ‘conspiracy theories’ and gaslighting which implicates the role of memory in the validation of truth. Debates are promoted and circulated on predominantly unregulated social media and in ideologically biased print and broadcast media. News stories whip up hostilities. Scientific and medical research projects are cancelled in response to debunked conspiracy theories. Lies are given as causes for wars or the climactic and ecological devastation of our planet. Histories are rewritten, expunged or tailored to reflect ideological agendas. Hence, Superman’s true weakness is not Kryptonite but gossip and slander, and Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth is getting frayed. This is clearly a rich area for further exploration and so we invited proposals for submission to the in-person and online conferences exploring issues of truth in comics, manga, webtoons and graphic novels.
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