We have wrapped up The Comics Grid’s 14th volume, corresponding to 2024.

See you at Comics Forum 2024 this 14th and 15th November at Leeds Central Library!

Dr Jonathan Evans and I will be presenting a joint paper at the Digital Humanities Congress 2024 in Sheffield.

O nce more I feel inclined to write something about recovering time, focus and agency for ourselves. The very act of writing, and of writing something here , is a key part of that need. Writing, not an email, not a text message, not work notes, not a post or comment on other social media, but taking the time to write, just because, as an attempt to make time and reconsider things.

New publication from Linda Berube’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (City HCID/British Library) in New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia.

I am looking forward to returning, many years later, to my beloved UEA Norwich (where I did my master’s more than two decades ago) to attend this year’s International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference, with the theme of ‘Comics & Technologies’. The schedule (on-line and in-person) and the book of abstracts are now available at the conference website.

Sharing three new book reviews published in The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship today.

Honoured to be a co-director of this programme along Elinor Carmi. This new MSc will provide students with the practical research skills and knowledge to critically understand and ethically assess how data is used across a multitude of industries.

A note on the personal significance of collecting and listening to records, comparing it to meditation. I use Walter Benjamin’s concept of “erfahrung” to argue for the unique experience afforded by physical music formats. Finally, I share a mix of vinyl records.

On how our constant connectivity demands a particular way of existing.