Comics Studies UEA

Master of Arts programme in Comics Studies @uniofeastanglia. Follow us and @frederikbk for news and updates.

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Our Comics Studies Research Seminar next week is by @paulgwilliams1 from @ExeterEnglish, who will join us for a talk called "I L̵o̵v̵e̵ ̵H̵a̵t̵e̵ Love Photocopying: Minicomics, Counterpublics, and (Self-)Reproduction." Open to the UEA community—join here: https://t.co/927UUofoRz

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In this week's class for Film and Comics, we're looking at Hong Kong through reading Wing Shing Ma's Storm Riders and watching the 2009 wuxia adaptation Storm Warriors by the Pang Brothers.

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This week, our in-class guest is Emma Hayley, the Managing Director and Founder of @SelfMadeHero, who will talk to our students about the UK comics publishing industry. We're really excited about adding this perspective to our course!

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Here’s a very cool-looking symposium

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We're now accepting applications for September 2021 admission to our MA in Comics Studies here at the University of East Anglia. You can read about the programme in this comic and on our website (https://t.co/K61Xbp05PX), but get in touch if you have specific questions for us.

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Check out this great new book by Miriam Kent, who did her PhD here at UEA!

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Our student Fern came up with this cool challenge—what does a noisy comic look like?

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Check out this cool new book on cosplay in the series on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics edited by our director!

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In our Film and Comics module this week, we're looking at global and transnational adaptations by comparing The Adventures of Tintin from 2011 with the original 1943 album The Secret of the Unicorn, and reading scholarship by @blacknwhitecat, @bartbeaty, and @ivanderschelden.

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@gjtorikian @sawadhussain It was online, but it was a closed class just for our students on UEA's MA in Comics Studies. You can read more about the programme here: https://t.co/qQ10Rjv4wf

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This week, we're thrilled to welcome @isabelgreenberg as our in-class guest! Isabel will talk to our MA students about her work making comics, which of course includes amazing titles like The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, The One Hundred Nights of Hero, and Glass Town.

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Interested in applying for our MA in Comics Studies? There's a special information session on the postgraduate degrees offered by our School tomorrow (Friday) at 12pm, as part of UEA's Postgraduate Open Week. Click here for more info and to register: https://t.co/W79F7gtAkG

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Thanks for a great talk, Julia!

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Happening 4pm GMT today - join us if you'd like to!

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@zenithbootleg @FTM_UEA @2000AD @jochen_ecke @ProfChrisMurray @BenLittle It's an MA-level module, and is part of our MA in Comics Studies and also available as an option on other degrees, such as the MA in Film Studies. Are you considering an MA next year?

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For this week's class in our Film and Comics module, we're discussing politics and transnationalism by watching the 2012 movie Dredd and comparing it to the original comics published in @2000AD, alongside scholarship by @jochen_ecke, @ProfChrisMurray, and UEA's own @BenLittle.

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@zenithbootleg @FTM_UEA @2000AD @jochen_ecke @ProfChrisMurray @BenLittle Unfortunately, this is part of a class for students only. But we're open for applications for September 2021 admission :-)

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This afternoon at 4!

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Next week's speaker in our Comics Studies Research Seminar Series is @hypnojoo from @bournemouthuni, whose talk is entitled "Modification or Mutilation? Mash-ups and Reprints in British Girls’ Comics." Open to the UEA Community—join here: https://t.co/u2eCkXveiq

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This week, we welcome @RyokoM822 from UEA's @SISJAC_UK, who will talk to our students about the place of comics in museums. Ryoko was one of the curators for the incredible 2019 Manga exhibition at @britishmuseum, so we're very excited about this one!

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Next week's speaker in our Comics Studies Research Seminar Series is @hypnojoo from @bournemouthuni, whose talk is entitled "Modification or Mutilation? Mash-ups and Reprints in British Girls’ Comics." Open to the UEA Community—join here: https://t.co/u2eCkXveiq