Recently Launched: Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics

Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics is a special collection of peer-reviewed research articles co-edited by Dr Nicolas Pillai (Birmingham City University) and myself for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, the Digital, and ‘Unidentified’ Media, Liège, June 16 -18, 2016

Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, the Digital, and ‘Unidentified’ Media (About) is an international and bilingual conference organized by the ACME Comics Research Group and hosted by the University of Liège (Belgium), from June 16 to June 18, 2016.

At Graphixia: Death in the Library: On Bef and Yorko’s 1874

Yesterday Graphixia published its post number 202. It's a post by me, where I briefly discuss the graphic novella 1874, by Mexican authors Bernardo Fernández “Bef” and Jorge F. Muñoz “Yorko”.

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.