A Comics Grid 2023 Submissions Update and Season’s Greetings

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

Deadline for full submissions: 31 August 2024.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Webcomics/hypertext scholars! There's still time to submit. See you in Rome or online?

Paper now available open access via City Research Online.

A new publication with Linda Berube, Stephann Makri, Ian Cooke and Stella Wisdom.