Congratulations to wonderful, brilliant Hannah Berry! Image showing Hannah coming to the stage to get her well-deserved award at LICAF! From one comic genius to another: Friday evening saw Hannah Berry taking over the role of the Comics Laureate from Charlie Adlard! We were very happy when Charlie graciously thanked Lancaster University for supporting his work in […]

Comics Forum, an established forum and academic conference on all things comics and graphic novels is taking place in Leeds, aligned with the Thought Bubble comics convention in Leeds. It is absolutely fabulous to be a part of this diverse comics community, see old friends and meet new ones. The presentations and conversations so far […]

The Comics for Inclusive English Language Learning (CIELL) project is an ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership (€234,289) in Higher Education that aims to develop the competences of second language teachers by promoting the use of comic art, and other visual representations of knowledge, to enhance the quality of teaching materials and make them more relevant to supporting […]

Graphic Futures: New Methods in Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration event, 10th May 2018 This interesting workshop offered a space to present, debate, re-design, and re-think interdisciplinary research. It took as its model the preliminary findings and creative outputs from the ISF’s six-month project, ‘Graphic Futures’, which explored how techniques from graphic fiction could be applied to futures […]

This event, organised by Dr Andrew Tate and Dr Brian Baker (Creative Writing) in conjuction with ReOPeN brought together researchers and graphic novels-comics enthusiast from Lancaster and Manchester. Opening talk: Prof Benoit Peeters, The French and Belgian tradition in the Graphic Novel and Science Fiction The featured image shows Peeters and Schuiten’s graphic novel “Revoir […]

The latest ReOPeN-linked project explores health inequalities across the UK. Artist Joe Decie has been working with two researchers at Lancaster University – Dr Emma Halliday ( Health and Medicine) and Dr Natasa Lackovic (Educational Research) – to create a collective graphic memoir booklet about UK communities’ experiences and action, related to health inequalities. The […]

The latest ReOPeN-linked project is a graphic vignette booklet about community well-being and social connectedness: The booklet was created by artist Len Grant, who applied a technique of graphic ethnography and sketching, in collaboration with the community of and around Haslingden, Haslingden Resident advisors (Dawn Vear, Jennifer Shilliday, Lisa Bloor and Gemma Shingler), Kayt Horsley […]