Spring has sprung: The Comics Grid Volume 9 (2019) so far

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship has now closed for submissions until 1st November 2019. Here you will find a listing of the articles published so far in Volume 9 (2019).

A decade later it’s here: The Strip Hay(na)ku Project. A collaborative experiment in sequential graphic poetics (Meritage Press & L/O/C/P, 2019)

Meritage Press and Laughing/Ouch/Cube/Publications are pleased to announce the release of The Strip Hay(na)ku Project, a collection of hay(na)ku poems in comic strip form, edited and co-created by Ernesto Priego with contributors.

PhD studentship-Understanding UK digital comics information and publishing practices: From creation to consumption

The advert for the UK Digital Comics information and publishing practices: from creation to consumption PhD studentship opportunity is now available.

Digital Comics AHRC Collaborative PhD Opportunities with the British Library

The British Library and City, University of London will offer a fully-funded PhD studentship on ‘Understanding UK digital comics information and publishing practices: From creation to consumption.’  

HCID Open Day 2019: Design for Good: Call for Expressions of Interest #HCID2019

Into comics and animation and UX? UX and education, open access, social justice or international development? Submit an idea for presentation at HCID Open Day 2019: Design for Good.

Parabeln der Pflege: new translation of Parables of Care makes comic about dementia care available to German-speaking audiences

A new translation of Parables of Care (2017) makes comic about creative responses to dementia care available to German speaking audiences

HCID Research Seminar: The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. Implications for HCID

Today I will give a talk as part of the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design's HCID Research Seminar series: The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. Implications for HCID.

New Publication: The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid

This week saw the publication of a new journal article coauthored by Peter Wilkins and yours truly: Priego, E. & Wilkins, P., (2018). The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. 8, p.16. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/cg.133

Story of Books: Five Minutes With… Me!

I am grateful to Salina Christmas for having interviewed me for Story of Books. I talked about Parables of Care, about the power of storytelling and superheroes, my comic and real-world heroes, etc.