“If you want to make the world better, you’ve got to be prepared to put the groundwork in”: An Interview with Martin Eve on Social Justice and Design Justice in Open Access

A copyedited, annotated transcript of my interview with Martin Eve.

Celebrating Linda Berube’s Success in Digital Comics PhD Viva

On Friday the 13th of December 2024 our PhD student Linda Berube had her viva voce examination and was awarded a PhD with minor corrections in Human-Computer Interaction Design!

#LearningDisabilityWeek 2021 Online Event: Chat on Covid-19 Response Comics at the Embassy of Mexico in the UK [15 June, 5-6 PM BST] #LDWeek2021 #LDArtWeek

[This event was recorded and has been archived on the Embassy's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Embamexru/videos/158542686331722/ - no Facebook account required] This year’s Learning Disability Week will take place from 14 - 20 June 2021. The theme will be art and creativity. As part of Learning Disability Week 2021 the Embassy of Mexico in the UK … Continue reading #LearningDisabilityWeek 2021 Online Event: Chat on Covid-19 Response Comics at the Embassy of Mexico in the UK [15 June, 5-6 PM BST] #LDWeek2021 #LDArtWeek

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.

Mexican Comics at TORCH Oxford

Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form is a new interdisciplinary network and seminar series promoting the academic study of comics at Oxford. On Thursday 17 February 2017 they will host an event on Mexican Comics.

HCID Friday Seminar: Graphic Medicine – Using Comics Within the Mental Health Domain

On Friday 20th January 2017, I will present within the Seminar Series at the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design at City, University of London. The title of my talk is "Graphic Medicine: Using Comics as a Mental Health Information Resource". The seminar will be held in AG08, College Building, from 1pm - 2pm.

Inequality, Paywalled: Update from a Literature Review

I used the Altmetric Explorer as a tool to discover articles about inequality. I cleaned the data to reflect the articles that interested me and then checked them for access and license type.

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

New Publication: Data Paper. Data from Graphic Medicine… Insigths from Comics Producers

Excited to have a new peer-reviewed publication, a data paper on the Journal of Open Health Data: Farthing, A. & Priego, E., (2016). Data from ‘Graphic Medicine’ as a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from Comics Producers. Open Health Data. 4(1), p.e3. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ohd.25

New addition to the Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics special collection

I have co-edited with Dr Nicolas Pillai (Birmingham City University) a special collection of peer-reviewed research articles for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. We have published a new addition to the collection.

Nabokov’s Cabinet

The so-called Nabokov Genitalia Cabinet in Nabokov's former office at Harvard University's Comparative Zoology department. (Photograph from Nancy Pick's and Mark Sloan's The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History).