Category: News

This category collects my latest news, to let you know what I’ve been up to. Click on the titles to go to each post.

A Comics Grid 2023 Submissions Update and Season’s Greetings

~ Ernesto Priego

I repeat and update on the journal's news section and Comics Grid's end-of-year newsletter and wish this blog's readers happy holidays.

Call for Submissions. Graphic Biographical Fiction (Deadline: 31 August 2024). The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship Special Collection

~ Ernesto Priego

Deadline for full submissions: 31 August 2024.

Keynoting at Comics Forum 2023: Reboots & Remediations, Leeds Central Library

~ Ernesto Priego

Honoured to have been invited as keynote speaker, along esteemed colleagues Zu Dominiak and Damon Herd.

Presenting at The Lower Decks. A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing. September 7–8, 2023 | Birkbeck, University of London

~ Ernesto Priego

I will be presenting on Friday 8th September, 2023 with the title "Making Gatekeeping Transparent: Insights from a Decade of Trying Open Peer Review".

Web/Comics: 1st International Workshop on Webcomics and/as Hypertext, 4 September, Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome – Program

~ Ernesto Priego

The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference. I share the programe here.

Our UK Digital Comics: Partnership and Collaboration Poster at the Digital Humanities Conference 2023 #DH2023

~ Ernesto Priego

We co-designed a poster to present at the Digital Humanities Conference 2023, Graz, Austria, 10-14 July 2023. You can download it open access.

Presenting at Better Living Through Comics: The 2023 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society, Cambridge, 3-7 July 2023

~ Ernesto Priego

This year's topic is one close to my heart (most literally if I may say so) and attending is a decision I did not take lightly.

Creative responses to the Covid-19 pandemic – my article for The British Library’s Covid Stories

~ Ernesto Priego

Where I look at some of the creative ways people responded to and processed the impact of the pandemic on their lives.

Presenting at HistorioGRAPHICS. Framing the Past in Comics, Munich, June 15–17, 2023

~ Ernesto Priego

I will participate the panel "Comics in the Capitalocene", with my City colleagues Dr Dom Davies and PhD student Reed Puc.