Sign up for the Comics Lab Workshop with guest Clari Searle! Clari will be joining us IN PERSON on Thursday April 11th at 4pm to draw some comics! Her workshops are super fun and interactive, perfect for both experienced comics […]
Article: Rubric and Metrics for Peer Reviewing Research Comics
Here’s a modest proposal to get a bigger conversation started about how we peer review and process research comics through the academic publishing cycle. I’m so pleased to have this article published with the The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics […]
Guest editing at The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Drawing Conclusions: The Rise of Research Comics I’m so excited to get this project off the ground, and I’m honored to be working with with Ian Horton and John Miers! Please take a look at the CfP and submit a […]
Upcoming “Comprehending Comics” Conference!
Check out the CfP here! The lovely and talented Amy Matthewson and I have hatched a plan to bring folks together for another fun and enlightening History & Comics Conference. Please consider submitting a proposal to join us in September […]
Article: Framing the Embodied Journalist
I’m very happy to share this recent collaboration with Stuart Medley – we took a look at some current practices in comics journalism and came up with this research comic! Best of all, the article is open access! Framing the […]
Podcast: Comics Studies on the New Books Network
Do you think the conference Q&A is too short? I sure do! I can’t get enough of the coffee break chats, so it’s been such a pleasure to get to speak to scholars at length about their work, and a […]
Podcast: Americké křižovatky
This series of public debates were organized by Mgr. Katerina Brezinova, Ph.D. (Head of the Iberoamerican Studies Center, Department of International Relations & European Studies at the Metropolitan University Prague), and now are being released in podcast form for a […]
“Writers’ secrets and secrets of writing” at Czech European Researchers’ Night (Noc vědců) 2023
I had a few tables set up at Noc Vědců, a good amount of visitors (some returned from last year!), and saw new poetry, spooky stories, and comics about youthful misadventures. Following the evidence and suggestions in Bec Evans, Chris […]
Article: The Graphic “I” in Research Comics
I am incredibly excited to be included in this issue of Inks, the journal of the Comics Studies Society, alongside great studies by Manuela Di Franco (From Funnies to Adventures: Translation, Censorship, and Adaptation of American Comics in Fascist Italy), […]
Olomouc Writing Workshop
Writing Workshop at Palacky University A continuation of the History in Comics project brought 21 participants for an intensive week in Olomouc to work on their academic writing, creative writing and comics composition. This was the pitch: Come start or […]