Prof. Annebella Pollen has written an article on how “‘Cameras and young people belong together’: Camera Comics (1944-46) as an imaginative, ideological and commercial space for addressing and depicting American child photographers” for the Journal of Comics and Graphic Novels, vol. 16, as part of a collection of chapters on Comics and Children’s Magazines edited by Maaheen Ahmed and Giorgio Busi Rizzi (both: Ghent University, Belgium).

Bella’s article investigates the innovative and parasocial ways that the short lived American title Camera Comics in the mid 1940s encouraged take up and use of cameras by young photographers, involving them in camera stories and related activites, alongside strips that dramatised this idea. Prof. Pollen previously spoke about her research in this area as part of an afternoon symposium during last year’s University Research anbd Knowledge Exchange Day…