Researches comics & gothic & children’s lit. Writes comics. Edits @StudiesInComics & @EncapsComics. Organises @TheIGNCC. Assoc Prof of Goth @HLBU7. She/her.
Bournemouth and Bristol, UK
Joined October 2009
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I need a new pinned tweet so here’s another shameless plug for my award-winning book ‘#Gothic for Girls: Misty and #BritishComics’. Available everywhere but cheapest from eurospanbookstore.com/gothic… with 20% off code MISTY20 and free worldwide delivery.
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🚨We are surrounding Parliament right now.🚨
Holding the line. And telling PM @Keir_Starmer loud and clear: Starving children is a red line. Stop arming Israel.
#RedLine #StarmerActNow #ArmsEmbargoNow #SanctionIsrael
Not done any posting for a while so I’m a bit out of the habit… but think I’m finally off to The Other App 🦋 … come find me there please.
Had such a great time at the #VictorianGothic evening at the @Russell_Cotes museum - great to chat about British girls’ comics with so many lovely folk in such an atmospheric space!
ALT Julia sat in front of a statue, at a table covered with copies of old British comics like Misty and spellbound,
I’ve been discussing the sublime with my third-year BAEnglish students this week @hlbu7 - this photo says it all… #GothicStudies
Nice to see this pop up on the socials again, it was a lot of fun to put together!
My next public talk is part of the @Russell-cotes museum lates Victorian gothic evening in Oct russellcotes.com/event/museu…. Then likely to be Ireland next May - details to follow!
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really happy to have a new article in @ConversationUK in collaboration with Julia @hypnojoo Round about the multiverse in pop culture theconversation.com/multiver… in reference to #DeadpoolAndWolverine & RDJ playing #Doom
Help Hive Mind-am looking for contemporary British graphic novels with adolescent protagonists. Esp those with themes of gender & sexuality or political conflict/war. Eg Una’s Becoming Unbecoming; Gareth Brookes’ Black Project; Zoe Thorogood’s Impending Blindness of Billie Scott
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The story of Misty comic, the new Misty and Roxy Kickstarter @britcomics @hypnojoo @GailSimone @AlyFell @elliewrightart @CarolaBorelli @ComicsWrangler @IgnazziMarianna @toadlett @scarygorgon @tulalotay #scdcc comicscene.org/2024/07/17/th…
Day 3 of #IGNCC24 and Karrie Fransman’s keynote is exploring so many ways of pushing comics storytelling abilities and formats across multiple media - both analogue and digital - from paper, sculpture, dollhouses to digital, AR, AI - amazing stuff!
Today has been super busy for me at #IGNCC24 so no tweets sorry!! - but have seen some fantastic papers and honoured to have been part of a publishing panel with representation from @IntellectBooks, @JGNandComics, @ComicsGrid, @degruyter_pub, @PalgraveHums, and @encapscomics!
#IGNCC24 Paul Noguerol wraps up today by analysing de Sosa’s Teen Trans - a superhero allegory for trans history in S America, based on queer activism
#IGNCC24 Nick Stember speaking on the adaptation and reception of AstroBoy in China - first long form serial animation, community watching, modified format - media ecology a useful way of understanding these sorts of changes in production and reception of comics over time
Final #IGNCC24 panel of the day - Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandra on Tinker.Solder.Tap - VHS player in poor community represents an invasion of technology - people being colonised by a new kind of mentality
#IGNCC24 Elizabeth Woock on historical sounds in futuristic soundscapes - using memory studies to argue that that we draw on indexical sound memories to create unknown and unknowable sounds, activated through staging and blending earwitnessed/known sounds with the unknown
#IGNCC24 Brian Fagence surveying theory on scripting - story, char, world, theme - but sf comics are different…