Blog – ReOPeN Graphic Futures

Message from the Stars: a fascinating story about Galileo Galilei, by Eleni Tsampra

Art by Eleni Tsampra @2018, all rights reserved. Eleni Tsampra (Associate Professor, AKTO College, Greece and Associate Lecturer, University of West Attica, Greece), is one of the team members of the …

Free-writing and emergent cartoons in a graphic social science context

ThINK on the page, by Sarah Catherine Firth What a delight: this festive season’s blog is written by Sarah Catherine Firth, an award-winning comic artist, graphic recorder, writer and animator b…

Graphic sociology: stories of migration, national identity, class and lived experiences

By Can Yalcinkaya, part 2 of Can Yalcinkaya’s graphic social science blog post. I got involved in the Australian alternative comics/graphic novels scene and created comics for local anthologies,…

Graphic Social Science blog series: Can Yalcinkaya

Reading time: app. 3 minutes Introducing part 1 of a 2-part-blog-entry hosted by Can Yalcinkaya. We are delighted to host blogs on Graphic Social Science, and spread the good word about the work of al…

Public lecture: Charlie Adlard and Andrew Tate

We are sharing Lancaster University public lecture “From Batman to the Walking Dead” held at the Grand Theatre in Lancaster in October 2017. Charlie Adlard, celebrated artist was in conver…

Graphic recording by Sarah Firth, GNC ReOPeN talk at academic sessions

This is a graphic recording of Andy’s and my talk abour ReOPeN at Lakes International Comics Arts Festival academic sessions in Kendal, kindly provided by the fabulous artist/author Sarah Cather…

Friday comics academic sessions: Erika’s departmental blog

by Erika Fülöp This post is an excerpt from Erika’s post originally published on Lancaster University Languages and Culture’s blog web page: Graphic recording artist: Sarah Firth; imag…

Charlie A. on comics & literacy: “the best of both worlds”

The short Vimeo video is below: to watch the video, insert password: adlard In this short 1-minute interview Charlie Adlard discusses his love of comics and what motivates him in his role as UK Comics…

An exercise in creative writing: of comics and ‘cool, rebel’ boys

Excerpt By George Green/ JJ was what some teachers called a rebel, a term which it didn’t take much to earn back in those days. Of course, there were other boys who were also deemed rebellious, but …

Internet dating in comics? Researching H-C Interaction

By Miriam Sturdee/ A year or two ago somebody suggested that I might be able to help paint some plaques in a mediaeval style to assist with a project in digital empathy (http://imagination.lancs.ac.uk…