Ernesto Priego's blog. A personal repository of stuff.

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Ernesto Priego

The Post [?] Lockdown Chronicles: Maggie

You can keep the hidden treasures. Look below and say: these are my feet; this is the Earth and below  the substance of year after year. We spent days naming clouds. There were shapes of animals. Look up. You can hear yourself blinking. There is nothing here except this. It is true it all comes back to this hand,  these growing nails, hair where there was  none. No, I told you, there is no meter  to maintain these words in order.

The hidden treasures

Eat Out to Help Out reversed social distancing guidance and contributed to a second Covid wave. Hate to say we told you so.

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he UK Covid-19 Inquiry was set up “to examine the UK’s response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and learn lessons for the future”. At the time of typing this, you can catch up with the developments from the coverage here, or directly from the video recordings here, if you find the time. The evidence that has been presented at the Inquiry is hugely significant, but it is, sadly, nothing truly new.

UK Covid Inquiry: EOHO, Hate to Say We Told You So

In memoriam

Alan Grant, Norm Breyfogle, Adrienne Roy, Albert De Guzman, Dennis O’Neil and George Cordeiro.

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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.

We Gravely Read the Stones: Revisiting Detective Comics #610, January 1990

We co-designed a poster to present at the Digital Humanities Conference 2023, Graz, Austria, 10-14 July 2023. You can download it open access.

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e co-designed a poster to present at the

 Digital Humanities Conference 2023

, which is taking place in Graz, Austria from the 10th to 14th July 2023. Have a look at the

 Conference Program.

You can also browse through the

 Book of Abstracts.

The Poster Reception will take place on Wednesday 12th July 2023 from 6:00pm-8:00pm at the MCG Gallery.

Our UK Digital Comics: Partnership and Collaboration Poster at the Digital Humanities Conference 2023 #DH2023

I will participate the panel “Comics in the Capitalocene”, with my City colleagues Dr Dom Davies and PhD student Reed Puc.

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HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics” is an international conference that “sets out to critically assess the current state of research on graphic narrative as means of writing – and drawing – history and of examining, representing, and engaging with the past.” The conference will take place in the Amerikahaus and the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, Munich, Germany, June -15-17,

Presenting at HistorioGRAPHICS. Framing the Past in Comics, Munich, June 15–17, 2023

On the morning of Saturday 8 November 2025, I took part in the Comics Against Capitalism panel within the 22nd Annual Historical Materialism Conference in London.

On the morning of Saturday 8 November 2025, I took part in the Comics Against Capitalism panel within the 22nd Annual Historical Materialism Conference in London. The session brought together myself, Dominic Davies and Reed Puc (who has just submitted his PhD dissertation under our supervision). It proved to be one of those  conference moments that felt genuinely collaborative and energising.

Comics Against Capitalism at Historical Materialism 2025

A new publication with Linda Berube, Stephann Makri, Ian Cooke and Stella Wisdom.

Citation

Linda Berube, Stephann Makri, Ian Cooke, Ernesto Priego, and Stella Wisdom. 2023. “Webcomics Archive? Now I’m Interested”: Comics Readers Seeking Information in Web Archives. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 412–416.

 https://doi.org/10.1145/3576840.3578325.

Publication: “Webcomics Archive? Now I’m Interested”: Comics Readers Seeking Information in Web Archives

On Friday 16 December 2022, Linda Berube will present our paper ‘My Heart Goes Boom Boom!”: Understanding the Experience of Reading Digital Comics’ at the Margins 22 conference.

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omorrow Friday 16 December 2022, Linda Berube be presenting our paper ‘

 My Heart Goes Boom Boom!”: Understanding the Experience of Reading Digital Comics’

-by Linda Berube (City, University of London), Ernesto Priego (yours truly, City, University of London), Stella Wisdom (British Library), Ian Cooke (British Library), and Stephann Makri (City, University of London) – at the

 On the Margins: Hypertext,

‘My Heart Goes Boom Boom!”: Understanding the Experience of Reading Digital Comics’ at On the Margins: Hypertext, Electronic Literature, Digital Humanities

Sixth comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #6

First comic in what I hope will be a new experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #1

Second poem in the Lotería series. In hay(na)ku form.

We come back to ourselves again and again and  again and again we know it as kids, remember  it as adults then come back up and down the thread hangs.

13. El yoyo

First poem in what hopefully will be a series. This one in hay(na)ku form.

For Paty In my language,  cog rattle, noisemaker,  ratchet: Signal to noise Arabic: from  مَطْرَق‎  maṭraq stick, hammer, chatterbox to knock, bang,  strike. Aramaic: from טרק‎  to hit, sting,  bite,  close a door,  mix. Talmud: pakia?  What is a  madra? Rav Papa  says:  An Arabian whip  whose end is split. Suena la matraca noisy, fun, old. Every  sound comes  from somewhere else. What fortunes will the racket bring?

7. La matraca

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ou are warmly invited to the

 Graphic Refuge

panel event with Dr Dominic Davies (City St George’s Media, Culture and Creative Industries) and Dr Candida Rifkind (University of Winnipeg, Canada) on

 Wednesday the 19th of November, at 5pm

[UK time], at City St. George’s University of London.

Graphic Refuge: Panel Discussion on Comics and Migration

Click on image to enlarge.

 Sources:

Panel 1: Lou Reed, “Venus in Furs”, The Velvet Underground &amp; Nico, 1967. Panel 2: The official UK Government website for data and insights on Coronavirus (COVID-19), last updated on Saturday 20 February 2021 at 4:00 pm, https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk; Sarah Marsh, “‘Pandemic burnout’ on rise as latest Covid lockdowns take toll”, The Guardian, Fri 5 Feb 2021 11.54 GMT.

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Burnout

Click on image to enlarge.

 Sources:

Panel 1: Titanic at Southampton docks, prior to departure, photographer unknown, 10 April 1912, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Titanic

Where I share an invitation to two online events where I will participate this week.

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ime waits for no one. I’d like to invite you to two online synchronous events I will present in this week. Apologies for the short notice- too busy to even do this.

 Wednesday, 25 November 2020.

Two Online Synchronous Events: Wed 25 and Thurs 26 November 2020: On Comics, Dementia and Narrative Design, and Un sur epistemológico para las Humanidades Digitales

Click on the image below to read the comic strip in full size. Sources and references on this post under the comic strip below. Click on image for full size.

The Lockdown Chronicles 30: Eric

Seventh comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #7

The INCA project has now launched MakeWrite, an iPad app that was co-designed by and for people with aphasia (a language difficulty following brain injury).

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am pleased to announce that the INCA project has now launched MakeWrite, an iPad app that was co-designed by and for people with aphasia (a language difficulty following brain injury). The app offers an accessible way for anyone to create and share texts in English. However, you don’t need to live with aphasia to try it out.

MakeWrite: Supporting Writing with Constrained Creativity

I am pleased to announce the launch of Just Another Day: A Comic About Brexit, in both English and Spanish language versions.

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n 21st March I announced the launch of The Power of Sharing in three different languages. Today I am pleased to announce the launch of

 Just Another Day: A Comic About Brexit

, in both English and Spanish language versions. We are very grateful to Latin American House and MPB Solicitors, for allowing us to make a comic about an issue which is so urgent for so many people.

Just Another Day: A Comic About Brexit / Un día más: un comic sobre Brexit

I recorded a ‘mixtape’ featuring some of the tracks and/or artists that were on heavy rotation during 2017 at home.

“music heals too/ i’m here to defend it” -Björk, ‘Saint’, 2017

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he end of the year is for me a time for recollection, reflection, planning and self-care. This year I continued investing in music and books.

Farewell, Old Year (A 2017 Mixtape)

I have looked at the text from 4,945 Tweets published with #WLIC2016 since 14/08/2016 until 15/08/2016 11:16:06 (EDT, Columbus Ohio time).

IFLA World Library and Information Congress. Logo copyright by IFLA, CC BY 4.0.

 Part 2 is  here, part 3  here and the final, fourth part is here.

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FLA stands for The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. The IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2016 and 2nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly, ‘Connections. Collaboration.

What Library Folk Live Tweet About: Most Frequent Terms in #WLIC2016 Tweets

I am excited to announce that this spring I will be leading an extracurricular research seminar for City University London postgraduate students (or alumni) titled ‘The Questions Concerning Technology.

‘Tangled Network’ photo CC BY SA Bruno Girin

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am excited to announce that this spring I will be leading an extracurricular research seminar for City University London postgraduate students (or alumni) titled ‘The Questions Concerning Technology. A Critical Theory Seminar for Beginners.’ I designed the seminar with Computer Science, Library and Information Science and Publishing postgraduate  students in mind.

The Questions Concerning Technology. A Critical Theory Seminar

A new episode of Mutatis Mutandis. #6: Terror of London. As always, images from the British Library Flickr Commons (Public Domain).

Images from the British Library Flickr Commons (Public Domain). Layout and story CC-BY Ernesto Priego. Click on image to enlarge.

Mutatis Mutandis #6: Terror of London

A new episode of Mutatis Mutandis… issue #5: and the other the same distance south

Mutatis Mutandis #5: and the other the same distance south

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he HEFCE metrics workshop: metrics and the assessment of research quality and impact in the arts and humanities took place on Friday 16 January 2015, 1030 to 1630 GMT at the Scarman Conference Centre, University of Warwick, UK. I have uploaded a dataset of 821 Tweets tagged with #HEFCEmetrics (case not sensitive): Priego, Ernesto (2015): A #HEFCEmetrics Twitter Archive (Friday 16 January 2015, Warwick). figshare.

A #HEFCEmetrics Twitter Archive (Friday 16 January 2015, Warwick)

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ere an attempt to visualise what I was up to in 2014 publishing, research and teaching engagement wise. I have focused first on how many blog posts I published on this blog per month, how many blog posts I edited and/or authored for the Comics Grid blog, how many outputs I shared on figshare and finally a general numeralia of some main categories of my 2014 activity.

A 2014 Numeralia

An 2014 annual report for my blog courtesy of WordPress.com.

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n 2014 annual report for this blog courtesy of WordPress.com. Click here to see the complete report. Here’s an excerpt:

 Click here to see the complete report

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My 2014 Blogging in Review

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

This work has been deposited on figshare as a PDF and can be cited as

 Priego, Ernesto; Eve, Martin Paul (2025). “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. figshare.

“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

This is most likely my last post from 2020. I have deposited on figshare a basic sheet listing a selection of my articles, blog posts and outputs I published openly during 2020.

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he end of the year is nigh and this is most likely my last post from 2020. Wishing you all safe and happy holidays and the best for 2021. In order to make sense of some the work I did this year I have deposited on figshare a basic sheet listing a selection of my articles, blog posts and outputs I published openly during 2020. It does not include every single thing I published, and does exclude my musical podcast episodes etc.

FWIW: A list of stuff I published in 2020

Click on image to enlarge. According to the official UK Government website for data and insights on Coronavirus (COVID-19), last updated on Thursday 05 November 2020 at 09:30pm, “The latest R number is estimated at 1.1 to 1.3 with a daily infection growth rate range of +2% to +4%.”. Source: https://coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/. With apologies to Harvey Pekar. This comic strip was published at lunchtime Friday 6 November 2020.

The Lockdown Chronicles S2 E1

Sharing the video recording and slides of my presentation on 10 December 2020 within the III Publishing, Research and Library and Information Science symposium organised by the Universidad Agustiniana, Bogotá, Colombia.

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ast night (Thursday 10 December 2020) I talked about 10 years of The Comics Grid and our experience with open access and social media for research dissemination in the III Publishing, Research and Library and Information Science symposium organised by the Universidad Agustiniana, Bogotá, Colombia

Video Recording and Slides from “Acceso abierto y redes sociales. Sobre 10 años de The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship”, III Encuentro de Investigadores, Editores y Bibliotecólogos, Universidad Agustiniana, Bogotá, Colombia

I have finally taken the time to locate and restore the files that composed my 2003 MA dissertation, and to make them into a single PDF that I have now self-archived open access on figshare.

Panel from

 Maus

by Art Spiegelman (1991) “There are essential reasons for which a concept in the process of being formed always remains inadequate relative to what it ought to be, divided, disjointed between two forces. And this disjointedness has a necessary relationship with the structure of archivization. It follows, certainly, that Freudian psychoanalysis proposes a new theory of the archive;

For What It’s Worth: Self-archiving My 2003 MA Dissertation on Art Spiegelman’s Maus

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!

Friday the 13th of December this year was a day of achievement and celebration. Our PhD student Linda Berube had her viva voce examination and was awarded a PhD with minor corrections in Human-Computer Interaction Design!

Celebrating Linda Berube’s Success in Digital Comics PhD Viva

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

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t’s that time of the year again and I am looking forward to attending and presenting at Comics Forum 2024! With the title “Between Bodies: Embodiment and Comics” Comics Forum will take place as usual at

 Leeds Central Library (UK)

on the

 14th and 15th of November

2024 as part of the annual Thought Bubble Festival.

Mexican Scholarly Insights on Women’s Representation in Comics at Comics Forum 2024

An 18-year old clip of me being interviewed by Gregory Gransden on Mexican Comic Books for Greg’s 2002 Historietas documentary.

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long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. (Ah, yoof!)…. I was interviewed by Gregory Gransden on Mexican Comic Books for his 2002 Historietas documentary. Shared with Greg’s kind permission.

Time Machine: Where I discussed Mexican comic books with Greg Gransden in 2002

Click on image to enlarge. Data and charts sourced from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/. According to this source “COVID-19 cases are identified by taking specimens from people and sending these specimens to laboratories around the UK to be tested for COVID-19 antigens. If the test is positive, this is a referred to as a lab-confirmed case. If a person has had more than one positive test they are only counted as one case.

The Non-Lockdown Chronicles 2: Ride the Curve!

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.

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‘ve written here before about what it means to me to spend some time playing records and recording them the sessions to share later (also here). Taking the time to select, play, listen to and later rearrange and make recordings of my playing/listening sessions is for me akin to meditating, attentively watching a good film, reading a good book for pleasure or doing research.

Ride That Ridm: A New Session on Mixcloud, or, A Note On Vinyl-only Sets as Erfahrung

Digital Cultures (AMM 421)  Time has flown and today we have the final session(s) of our Digital Cultures modules. We have attempted to offer a kaleidoscope of perspectives that might help us to re-configure the digital media/digital culture landscape.

Week 5: Digital Societies?

“Comics as COVID-19 Response: Visualising the Experience of Video-conferencing with Ageing Relatives” was published yesterday in ACM Interactions Magazine.

In ACM Interactions Magazine: Comics as COVID-19 Response: Visualising the Experience of Video-conferencing

I have created and uploaded a file that contains three archives of Tweets corresponding to the #Transitions5, #ComicsForum14 and #ICAF14 hashtags (case not sensitive).  I created and shared this file on figshare with a Creative Commons- Attribution license (CC-BY) for academic research and educational use. The three archives contain 2173 Tweets published publicly and tagged with #Transitions5, #ComicsForum14 and #ICAF14.

A #Transitions5, #ComicsForum14 and #ICAF14 Archive

Click on image to enlarge.  Reusing (without permission like the rest of apparently the whole world) an original photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images.  Context, in case you have just returned from Mars: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/21/bernie-sanders-mittens-not-for-sale  Meanwhile, according to the New York Times, “at least 4,367 new coronavirus deaths and 184,754 new cases were reported in the United States on Jan. 20.

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Je Suis Bernie

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

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e have three new book reviews on the journal, published today:

 Franco

, I. E., (2024) “Beyond Boundaries: A Review of Monstrous Women in Comics”,

 The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

14(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.15400

 Raina

, S., (2024) “Chronicling Five Decades: A Review of UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics: A Critical Survey”,

 The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics

Monstrous Women in Comics, UK Feminist Cartoons, Comics and Modernism | New Book Reviews by Franco, Raina, Connerty

‘Tis the season… Click on title to see post.

Click on image to enlarge  According to the official UK Government website for data on Coronavirus (COVID-19), last updated on Sunday 13 December 2020 at 04:00pm, “the latest R number is estimated at 0.9 to 1 with a daily infection growth rate range of -2% to 0% as of 11 December 2020”.  The daily number of new people tested positive as of Sunday 13 December 2020 was 18, 447; cumulative total 1, 849, 403 people.

The Post [?] Lockdown Chronicles: Regent Street

Click on image to enlarge  * See The Post [?] Lockdown Chronicles: Maggie [Tuesday 8 December 2020], available at https://epriego.blog/2020/12/08/the-post-lockdown-chronicles-maggie/.  Charts in panels two and three: UK Government Coronavirus (COVID-19) daily cases data, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk. This comic strip was published on Tuesday 5 January 2021 AM GMT.

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Square One (but Much Worse)

Fifth comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #5

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

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
 



is seeking contributions to its book reviews section. The journal seeks 2,000- to 2,500-word scholarly reviews of academic publications on comics and graphic novels, historical to contemporary, global north to global south, in all comics cultures.

The Comics Grid: Call for Comics Studies Book Reviews (Spring 2024)

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#LibPub Session 3: Comic Books, Libraries and Challenges in the Digital Age

If you have used open data in your teaching practice we would like to hear from you. It’s only three questions.

Image CC-BY Jer Thorp

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ast term I taught the Digital Information Technologies and Architectures (DITA) postgraduate module at #citylis. Sessions are divided in an hour and half of lecture and an hour and a half of computer lab work. As part of the module students created datasets obtained using data from the Twitter and Altmetric APIs.

Using Open Data in Higher Education – A Mini Survey

We will be organising knowledge exchange workshops between HCID researchers, mental health professionals, comics scholars and comics artists, focusing on the reuse and adaptation into comics of the dementia care best practice data collected the Care’N’Share project.

Illustration from

 Wrinkles

, a graphic novel by Paco Roca (© Knockabout Comics, 2015)

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t’s been an incredibly busy year, at work and at home, in professional circles and in the wider public, political arena. As a keen advocate of blogging as a key component of scholarly communications and the research life cycle, I’ve regretted being too busy (or too exhausted) to blog more frequently.

Adapting Dementia Care Best Practice Data into Comics: Enhancing Impact Through Graphic Medicine

Professor Martin Paul Eve will give a talk titled “A New Model for Open Access: The Open Library of Humanities One Year On” on Thursday 27 October 2016 at City, University of London, as part of Open Access Week.

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‘ve organised a public event at City, University of London as part of the International Open Access Week 2016. Professor Martin Paul Eve will give a talk titled “A New Model for Open Access: The Open Library of Humanities One Year On”

 (register here)

. Date and Time:  Thursday, 27 October 2016, 18:00 BST. Location:   124 Goswell Road, Franklin Building, R101

The Open Library of Humanities One Year On: A Chat with Martin Paul Eve

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At Altmetric: Strategies to Get Your Research Mentioned Online

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At Altmetric: On Digital Opportunity and Africa

Association for Computer and the Humanities Election Results Announced

Click on image to enlarge. Source images from the official UK Government website for data and insights on Coronavirus (COVID-19) at https://coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/. Daily Update. Last updated on Friday 16 October 2020 at 04:03pm.

The Semi-Lockdown Chronicles: Daily Update, Friday 16 October 2020 at 04:03pm

The Non-Lockdown Chronicles 3: Expecto Patronum!

tranquilo

, remember two parallel lines get together in the infinite.

Marco’s Sunday Roast

Toda observación sociológica es una experiencia mediatizada. Todo aforismo es la imposición de la idiotez en el mundo. Así éstos. Éstos no son aforismos. Ésto tampoco es un poema. Ni que lo fuera. Deja de pensar:  La teoría como experiencia está limitada por la infinita distancia de la inacción. La antropología como ciencia está arruinada. Le arruina su separación del campo observado.

La infinita distancia

I have finally published an archive of #transitions4 (2013) I collected more than a year ago, and that I have published a post on the Comics Grid blog summarising some data from my archives of tweets from comics conferences this year.

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very long title to announce I have finally published an archive of #transitions4 (2013) I collected more than a year ago, and that I have published a post on

 The Comics Grid

blog summarising some data from my archives of tweets from comics conferences this year. Links below. A #transitions4 Archive. fig

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. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1252098 — “Comics Scholars on Twitter?

A belated #Transitions4 Archive, and a post summarising some data about comics scholars on Twitter

Where I  look at some of the creative ways people responded to and processed the impact of the pandemic on their lives.

Covid Stories
 

uses material from across The British Library’s collections to highlight a variety of perspectives and reflections on the pandemic in the UK. These are grouped into reflective articles, each featuring a number of accessible ‘collection items’ to promote thought and discussion on this momentous period in our shared history.

 Covid Stories

was funded by UKRI AHRC as part of the ‘NHS Voices of

Creative responses to the Covid-19 pandemic – my article for The British Library’s Covid Stories

Digital Cultures (AMM 421)  For Week 3 of our Digital Cultures Module we’ll have an exciting day covering different aspects of digital strategies, including social media engagement and collaborative practices. To start the day Sabrina Francis, social media officer at City University, will talk with us about her role and the social media strategy at City.

Tomorrow: Social and Collaborative Practices, Authorship and Engagement Strategies

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ost of my personal journal writing, as well as many of my blog posts, tends to be self-reflective and self-referential, often musing on the nature and challenges of writing. It’s writing about writing, or, often, about being unable to write. Why do we write? Why do many of us feel like we need to write? What do we write about? Does it matter? After more than two decades of blogging, I still believe I should blog more.

Scraps- Quick Drafts

[and with apologies to Mr Cave]

“I get lucky/I get lucky” sings the voice: this morning always to-day

 (was it yesterday?)

as the day dawns slowly yet impossibly quick- unstoppable. We get lucky.

Le temps déborde

Here’s an edited list of the top 50 most frequent terms extracted from a cleaned dataset comprised of 10,721 #WLIC2016 Tweets published between Monday 15/08/2016 10:11:08 EDT and Wednesday 17/08/2016 07:16:35 EDT.

IFLA World Library and Information Congress82nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly13–19 August 2016, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Copyright by IFLA, CC BY 4.0.

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he first part of this series provides necessary context.

Most Frequent Terms in #WLIC2016 Tweets (part II)

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ste jueves 26 de noviembre a las 11am UTC-3 tendré el placer y el honor de participar en #NoviembreHD en el panel sincrónico en línea titulado “Un sur epistemológico para las Humanidades Digitales” junto con mis apreciados colegas Domenico Fiormonte (U. Roma Tre),  Priego, Riecardo Pimenta, (IBICT); y Gimena del Río (CONICET).

Panel sincrónico en línea: “Un sur epistemológico para las Humanidades Digitales” en #NoviembreHD (26/11/2020)

Click on the image below to read the comic strip in full size. Sources and references on this post under the comic strip below. Click on image for full size.

 George Bernard Shaw

(1856-1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His play T

 he Doctor’s Dilemma

was first staged in 1906.

The Lockdown Chronicles 39: Bernard

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 Stuart Hall

(Kingston, Jamaica, 1932– London, England, UK, 2014) was an influential British sociologist, cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review.

The Lockdown Chronicles 37: Stuart

Click on the image below to read the comic strip in full size. Sources and references on this post under the comic strip below. Click on file for full size.

The Lockdown Chronicles 33: Emmeline

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 Susan Sontag

(1933–2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist.

The Lockdown Chronicles 34: Susan

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 Eglantyne Jebb

(1876–1928) was a British social reformer and teacher who co-founded Save the Children in 1919 to relieve the effects of famine in Austria-Hungary and Germany.

The Lockdown Chronicles 32: Eglantyne

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Joining City University London

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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

(1797–1851) was an English novelist, best known for writing

 Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

(1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The Lockdown Chronicles 26: Mary S

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 Frida Kahlo

(6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.

The Lockdown Chronicles 17: Frida

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 Mary Somerville

(née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish science writer and polymath.

The Lockdown Chronicles 15: Mary

I’d like to dedicate this version to my mother and my sister, who are fluent in the languages of love, care, and mourning.

It’s been a while since I translated a poem. One morning while doing something else, you randomly take a book from the shelves, open it and find a poem that speaks to you, and calls you to translate it, in order to share it with others who also share your mother tongue.

Los seres queridos (una traducción de ‘The Dear Ones’, de Margaret Atwood)

Presentaré en el seminario virtual “Las ciencias sociales y los entornos digitales” de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

Este martes 16 de marzo de 2021 a las 9AM hora del centro de México / 3PM hora del meridiano de Greenwich (Londres, UK)

tendré el placer de presentar en el seminario virtual “Las ciencias sociales y los entornos digitales” organizado por Rosario Rogel y Verónica Benitez ( Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México) hablando del tema de los estudios sobre cómic y narrativa gráfica, en

Webinar: El campo de estudios del cómic y la narrativa gráfica – 16-03-2021, 9AM CST/3PM GMT #ComicsStudies

Virginia said she would order the flowers herself.

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 Adeline Virginia Woolf

( 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. Her novel

 Mrs Dalloway

(1925) and her essay

The Lockdown Chronicles 14: Virginia

This is part IV. For necessary context, methodology, limitations, please see here (part 1),  here (part 2), and here (part 3). Since this was published and shared for the first time I may have done new edits. I often come back to posts once they have been published to revise them.

IFLA World Library and Information Congress82nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly13–19 August 2016, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Copyright by IFLA, CC BY 4.0.

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his is part IV. For necessary context, methodology, limitations, please see here (part 1),  here (part 2), and here (part 3). Since this was published and shared for the first time I may have done new edits.

Libraries! Most Frequent Terms in #WLIC2016 Tweets (part IV)

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 Giovanni Boccaccio

(6 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.

The Lockdown Chronicles 12: Giovanni

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Announcing User’s Manual, a newsletter for new writing.

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nspired by the work by friends such as f [s] and Karl Whitney, I’ve dared to set up a newsletter to get me writing more about different things. It’s a cliché I know but I’ve titled the new site/newsletter

 User’s Manual

. I’d like it to be an open notebook about memories, ideas, and things I care about.

Everything is Connected

35. El molcajete

4. El brasero

1. El sombrero

13. El yoyo

7. La matraca

Switch It Off and On Again

Los seres queridos (una traducción de ‘The Dear Ones’, de Margaret Atwood)

Released Today 1st November 2021: The Lockdown Chronicles: A Comic Strip Quarantine (Book Launch Tomorrow)

On the Good Comics blog, I was interviewed about the creative process behind The Lockdown Chronicles

Wrestling Graphic Novels: A Comics Grid Webinar with Anna Marta Marini and Jessica Fontaine

The Lockdown Chronicles Released On Print; Book Launch (Online) on the 2nd of November 2021, 7PM GMT