Comics & AI: Critical Prompts- Open Access Outputs

~ Ernesto Priego
Comics & AI robot emerging with idea icons from a laptop screen. Yes, created with Gen AI from an original sketch and extensive prompting from me. It's not ironic. For better or worse, one cannot fully critique what one has not fully experienced first hand... I'd say. If you care about these things you surely are reading this alt-text, right?

As online culture has moved towards algorithmic social media and instant messaging it is harder and harder to keep this site updated.

September is almost finishing and I haven’t documented here the work we did convening the Comics & AI: Critical Prompts one-day conference at City St George’s University of London, on Thursday 4 September 2025. Shortly after the conference I published a quick post about it on LinkedIn, here.

For the scholarly record (hopefully), listed below are the three outputs I deposited open access on figshare, where conference-related materials (the call for papers, the hand programme distributed that day to delegates, and the ‘book’ of abstracts and bios) can be viewed, downloaded, shared, and cited (again, hopefully).

Priego, Ernesto (2025). Call for Papers: Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity.. figshare. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29069522


Priego, Ernesto (2025). Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and
Creativity. Conference Handout. figshare. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30061291

Priego, Ernesto; Berube, Linda (2025). Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and Creativity. Book of Abstracts & Bios. figshare. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30074470

Update: Can comics and AI ever integrate without threatening human creativity and agency? Dr Linda Berube reports for the Centre for HCID page: https://www.hcid.city/news/thank-you-for-comics-%26-ai%3A-critical-prompts-

(Also, by the way, can we talk about how the latest WordPress editor and imposed AI assistant make posting anything here a real pain? Perfect example of how the unilateral, top-down imposition of AI assistants is tampering with, rather than facilitating, “productivity”. Sigh).

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My passion is creating opportunities for discovery, creativity and innovation. I am an advocate for enhanced access to information as a public good. I enjoy fostering engagement and openness, facilitating collaboration and mentoring. My main focus is multi-disciplinary and involves practically and theoretically connecting the dots between varied, closely-related fields and topics: comics studies; human-computer interaction design, library and information science, digital humanities, scholarly communications, publishing studies, digital innovation and material culture, intellectual rights and open science, access, data and educational resources. I love writing and spreading the word about the things I believe in. I love higher education and the Internet and I define myself as a digital scholarship advocate. I love working collaboratively and on my own. You can still follow me and/or contact me via Twitter @ernestopriego.