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Meet The Comics Grid, an online journal of comics scholarship
Salina Christmas makes a very kind and generous report for Sojournposse.
On Collaborative Blogging as Scholarly Activity. The Case of The Comics Grid. Part I.
Thank you to PhD2Published, who asked me to write these two posts for their site.
Ulysses "Seen": a chat with Robert Berry | The Comics Grid | Ernesto Priego
Joyce and Eliot […] knew that “the book” wasn’t dead, it just wasn’t “simply the same book” any longer.
Programme | Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes dessinées and Comics | Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)
Rock and roll.
I.N.J. Culbard's Tools of the Trade | The Comics Grid |
A brief interview I conducted with I.N.J. Culbard.
Comics Scholarship 2.0 by Ernesto Priego « Comics Forum
My two cents.
Flash Symposium: Short papers on short fiction — School of Arts, Birkbeck College London
When? Tuesday 24th May 2011 6-9 pm
Where? Birkbeck, School of Arts, Room B03, 43 Gordon Square
The papers will be collected for a special issue of postgraduate journal Dandelion, On Brevity, for autumn publication, and the discussion will be recorded for podcasting.
Chair for papers: Bianca Leggett (Birkbeck)
Papers - Henderson Downing (Birkbeck); Holly Pester (Birkbeck); Ernesto Priego (UCL); Daniel Rourke (Goldsmiths); Matt Sangster (Royal Holloway)
Chair for panel: Ariel Kahn (Roehampton/London Met Film School)
Speakers - Andy Poyiadgi (film-maker, Schizofredric); Tom Humberstone (comics artist/editor, Solipsistic Pop); Heidi James(writer, Carbon, The Mesmerist’s Daughter); Geoff Ryman, 253, Air).
Organised by: Zara Dinnen and Tony Venezia - Contemporary Fiction Seminar
Here’s a provisional running order for the short papers…
Matthew Sangster:Short Forms and Unalloyed Genre
Henderson Downing: Between the long roll of thunder and the long fine flash: a brief history of a little pamphlet bought from a pop-up shop on Redchurch Street in December 2010 on the shortest day of the year. Holly Pester: Visual Poetry: Objectness as a Necessary Shortness Ernesto Priego: Beyond [Adobe] Flash™: Webcomics as Short Digital Narratives Daniel Rourke: The Doctrine of the Similar(GIF GIF GIF)
In the birthplace of Cervantes… Deadline 31st May!
The Comics Grid flier #comicsedu
Graphic Novels as Literature: Maus, Caricature and Self-Reflexivity
Who would have thought that some ideas I originally formulated in my MA thesis (UEA 2003) would find a new life elsewhere, online, 8 years later?
Comica Symposium 2011 — Transitions 2: New Directions in Comics Studies
A one-day symposium promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/comix/manga/bandedessinée and other forms of sequential art.
