Category: Scraps

This category collects assorted brief writings and other work. Click on the titles to read 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.

UK Covid Inquiry: EOHO, Hate to Say We Told You So

~ Ernesto Priego

Eat Out to Help Out reversed social distancing guidance and contributed to a second Covid wave. Hate to say we told you so.

Haunted by Juan Rulfo: On Books as Inheritance and Sites for Remembrance

~ Ernesto Priego

Where I write, being día de muertos, about my copies of Rulfo's El llano en llamas and Pedro Páramo.

We Gravely Read the Stones: Revisiting Detective Comics #610, January 1990

~ Ernesto Priego

In memoriam Alan Grant, Norm Breyfogle, Adrienne Roy, Albert DeGuzman, Dennis O'Neil and George Cordeiro.

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.