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 Erasmus + CIELL project led by Lancaster University. CIELL aims to support essay writing in an engaging and deep manner, to support students who […]

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 based in Melbourne. Sarah’s work relates to the concept of graphic social science via her thought-provoking art, such as the series of “thINK on the […]

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, as well as limited run zines. While none of these earlier comics were created as “scholarly” works, they were nonetheless informed by my research interests. “Wounds […]

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 conversation with Dr Andrew Tate about his life in comics. http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/events/public-lectures/past-events/

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 Catherine Firth from her sketchbook – thank you Sarah! At our Friday session talk we introduced the network, the work done by network members across Lancaster […]

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; image copyrights: ©Sarah Catherine Firth, graphic recording of the panel discussion, Sarah’s web page: http://www.sarahthefirth.com ‘Comics are fun to read; therefore comics are for kids (and occasionally for […]

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 Laureate.

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 they tended to be in the sixth form, and they were against Important Things such as Apartheid and […]

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/activities/Creating_and_Exploring_Digital_Empathy ), which led to some interesting conversations about design fiction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_fiction ) and the useful nature of drawing in, and as, research. […]