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I propose a “talk” session in which we will discuss relations between comics and digital humanities and ways of using comics to engage in digital humanities research and teaching. I am currently working on a book manuscript which argues that in order to understand how the material parameters of literature are being affected by transitions to digital technology, we need to look at comics and graphic novels. I feel that this research would benefit from actually being presented as a comic. I would therefore like to discuss why we might want to use digital humanities tools to produce comics and/or help our students do so, and