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The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section.

R ecently we announced there’s new content in the journal, corresponding to our 13th and 14th volumes. Both volumes include a variety of work by 13 international scholars with affiliations in academic institutions based in nine different countries. I’d like to pesonally thank every author, editorial board member and peer reviewer who contributed to making the publication of these articles possible.

Some 12″s recorded in sequence in one go (human errors and all) to see January off.

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.

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.

Where I write, being día de muertos, about my copies of Rulfo’s El llano en llamas and Pedro Páramo.

In memoriam Alan Grant, Norm Breyfogle, Adrienne Roy, Albert De Guzman, Dennis O’Neil and George Cordeiro. I haven’t written here in a while, but it’s that time of the year. It’s also been a year since we moved to a house next to a Victorian cemetery. Before the clocks change, this week has had very dark mornings, and later in the day the light in the cemetery has been really beautiful.

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