Two New Articles Published Today: ‘Where Comics and Cultural Heritage Meet’ and ‘Uses of Comics by Mental Health and Social Care Library Users’

Like London buses, two new journal articles appeared nearly at the same time today.

Comics as COVID-19 Response: Now Deposited ‘Green’ Open Access

We have deposited the accepted manuscript of “Comics as COVID-19 Response: Visualising the Experience of Video-conferencing with Ageing Relatives” in City Research Online.

Call for Papers – Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution

Special Collection CFP: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution: Deadline for submissions: June 2021

Inaugural meeting of the Comics, Games & Media Research Group & First Blog Post

We had the inaugural meeting of the City HCID Comics, Games & Media Research Group this week! The Comics, Games & Media Research Group is dedicated to exploring the interconnections between interaction design and narrative media. The Group’s membership is comprised by academic staff and research students at the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design and … Continue reading Inaugural meeting of the Comics, Games & Media Research Group & First Blog Post

New Publication: Editorial: Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics

Yesterday the editorial my colleague Nicolas Pillai and I co-wrote was published on The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship: Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. 6, p.12. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/cg.92

The Technology of Storytelling. Audio of my 1999 interview with Will Eisner now online

I interviewed Will Eisner about storytelling in Mexico City on 2 May 1999. I have digitised the original tape recording, edited my questions out and uploaded the mp3 file to figshare.

A belated #Transitions4 Archive, and a post summarising some data about comics scholars on Twitter

I have finally published an archive of #transitions4 (2013) I collected more than a year ago, and that I have published a post on the Comics Grid blog summarising some data from my archives of tweets from comics conferences this year.

A #Transitions5, #ComicsForum14 and #ICAF14 Archive

I have created and uploaded a file that contains three archives of Tweets corresponding to the #Transitions5, #ComicsForum14 and #ICAF14 hashtags (case not sensitive).

At The New Everyday: The Multimodality of Comics in Everyday Life

I am very happy to announce the publication of a new cluster at MediaCommons' The New Everyday: "The Multimodality of Comics in Everyday Life" edited and curated by David N. Wright and myself.