Very happy to be in Brussels for #IGNCCIBDS25 #ComicsStudies conference - looking forward to a fabulous week of talks this week!

This Friday 20 June I’ll be running a FREE workshop on using dreams to kickstart your creative writing with Dr Rebecca Mills at Bournemouth Central Library - a few tickets still left at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dreamingwr..., come and join us!

I've written an article on 200 Years of British Comics for the uniofbrighton.bsky.social Comics Research blog... blogs.brighton.ac.uk/comics/2025/... with thanks to @hypnojoo.bsky.social and @annalouwalker.bsky.social for for copy editing and peer review

Time to shamelessly promote this new #comicsstudies collection ‘Horror and Comics’ - edited by me, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social and @komkunyosying - and packed with #horror themed goodness and looking at a global selection of comics! Due to be published by university of wales press next month.

Very excited to be heading to University of Ulster next week to give the keynote talk at the On The Margins #comicsstudies conference! I’m speaking about ‘Playing the Game’ and sports stories in British girls’ comics - so many fab stories to unveil!! www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar...

in a world of reboots and remakes and sanitised slush you gotta fight back by writing something really really fucking Weird

We’re currently running a competition where the winner will get £50 store credit to spend at Gosh! To enter, simply follow us on Bluesky (if you're seeing this, then there's a good chance you already do)! We’ll be drawing the winner next week on Friday 14th March, so make sure to follow us by then.

Proud to have a new article in The @uk.theconversation.com, co-written with @bournemouthuni.bsky.social’s Julia @hypnojoo.bsky.social Round, about @veradrew22.bsky.social’s groundbreaking LGBTQI+ superhero film The People’s Joker theconversation.com/the-peoples-...

Just sent back the final proofs for this new #ComicsStudies collection on #Horror and Comics which has been so much fun to put together. Out in May from Uni of Wales Press

Hi #ComicsStudies BlueSky - I’m doing some research on recipes in children’s comics/annuals - if you have any strong memories or (even better) page scans etc hit up my messages please! Looking mainly at girls comics rn but I’d be interested to know where else recipes might appear…

Gentle reminder that #CFP for the 2025 joint conference of #IGNCC and #IBDS is live - closes 31 Jan. Come explore The Taste of Comics (and #ComicsStudies) with us in Brussels (and online) in June/July! Details at www.IGNCC.com

Call for proposals for a free online conference on ‘Literatures & Medicines’ hosted by us lot at Bournemouth University next April. #Comicsstudies and #GraphicMedicine papers are very welcome, please share and submit! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...

Behold the Xmas tree in all its glorious glory. The embellishment at the front is ‘a rainbow’, in case you wondered 😆

#ComicsStudies folks - the CFP for our 2025 joint conference of IGNCC and the IntBDSoc has now launched - we’re off to Brussels (and online) to explore ‘The Taste of Comics’. Check it out at IGNCC.com.

I’m honoured to be one of the 2024 awardees of the Kinnard Comics Education Award which ‘honors educators doing outstanding work with comics and education.’ Many thanks to Laneha House and congrats to the other awardees! #comicsstudies #comicbook #comics www.lanehahouse.com/comics-educa...

Back on it for day 5 of my fave #britishcomics #girlscomics team ups - let’s go with the classic Four Marys from Bunty. Here’s a reprint of the ‘frolicsome foursome’’s debut in 1958.

Post a character/s you love and tag 5 people to do the same: @jasondbrawn.bsky.social @martinnutbeem.bsky.social @annapeppard.bsky.social @comiccontext.bsky.social @drtravislangley.bsky.social

Day 4 (belated as I went out last night and forgot) of my top #comicbook team ups from #britishcomics #girlscomics - it’s the Tiny Taylors from Spellbound! Shrunk to tiny size while on holiday in Scotland, they need to travel far to figure out how to return to their normal forms.

Day 3 of favourite #ComicBook team ups challenge - from #BritishComics #GirlsComics I’m going for Sadie and Freya, the good girl/bad girl combo from Misty’s ‘Black Widow’, nicknamed Tara and Tula by its titular villainess

Day 2 of my fave teams #comicbook challenge - it’s The Silent Three, who appeared from the very first issue of School Friend, the first #britishcomics #girlscomics. Solving mysteries, defying evil prefects, wearing awesome robes and masks!

OK I’m joining this #comicbook challenge - aiming for 10 days of my fave #BritishComics & #GirlsComics teams. Day 1: the Supercats! The unnecessarily sexily drawn crew of the Spaceship Lynx, a superpowered team (tho with a leader with no powers) whose adventures are a bonkers mix of sf and magic…

Aargh, I’m so out of the habit of posting anything on the socials… must do better! Sorry world.

My first post… Hmm… ok, so who’s off to Leeds for #ComicsForum or #ThoughtBubble this weekend? Comics scholars and fans assemble!!