Warwick Comics Research Network

An interdisiplinary research network exploring the art of graphic storytelling from @WarwickUni

[James C. Taylor @tayloredchatter]

My book, The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning, is now available to pre-order from @upmiss ! It boasts spectacular cover art by the amazing @portolandia, so please feel free to judge this book by its cover! Find out more and order here: https://t.co/zFwx0iKGzs

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

We had a great work in progress event, with network members presenting on bandes dessinées, representing migrant experience, comics about Giacomo Leopardi, ecological resistance in La Borinqueña, and The Incredible Hulk! So much exciting comics research going on at @uniofwarwick!

[International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference @TheIGNCC]

And we’re off! #IGNCC24

[James C. Taylor @tayloredchatter]

Join us on Friday to talk about Superman (something I'm very qualified to do)! Very much looking forward to this.

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

We're excited for our reading group this Friday, 3pm, in collaboration with the Comic Book Society, where we'll discuss a selection of Superman comics from different eras! You can attend in-person (FAB1.38) or online. DM or email for access to the comics and Teams link.

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

What an amazing turnout!

Thanks to all who attended our 'Bridging Translation and Comics' workshop last Friday and for playing along with us in finding the best translation strategies of Heartstopper vol. 5 💬💥

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

https://t.co/QXZ18XEEp3

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

Join us either online or in-person tomorrow for 'Bridging Translation and Comics'.

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Link to the event in the comments

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

We're thrilled to announce our next event: Bridging Translation and Comics. We'll be joined by Heartstopper translator Anna Martino, who'll be in conversation with Dr. Anna Lanfranchi. The workshop is on 26th April, 5-6:30pm in FAB 4.76. Sign up here: https://t.co/UssNkUFWHj

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Our Queer Migrations event is coming up on the 24 April! Join us at 1pm at FAB 2.32 University of Warwick. We're looking forward to a timely discussion. @SCAPVC @DC_Warwick @WarwickFilmTV

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Our friends @WarwickComicRes are organising a brilliant reading group on underground women’s comix, we will be there and we hope you will be too ! ❤️‍🔥

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

It Ain't Me Babe: https://t.co/gyDLNYXwF5

Graphic Women (via Warwick Library, login needed): https://t.co/xhcyfKgBKH

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

We're excited to announce our next event, which is our first reading group of the year! We'll be meeting at 5pm on 1st March to discuss It Ain't Me Babe, the first comic book produced entirely by women, along with the introduction of Hillary Chute's Graphic Women. Links below.

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

Thanks to everyone for your amazing participation in yesterday's event on Trans voices in comics in collaboration with @sexqueerrn!

It was a great opportunity to discuss and problematise notions of 'good', 'bad', and 'alright' trans objects together with our guest Dr. Ash Stokoe

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Join us and @WarwickComicRes for our Emerging Trans Voices in Comics reading group on the 7 February at 5pm.

No experience required, open to staff and students of all levels.

Email us at [email protected] to reserve your place and receive the extracts.

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Save the Date for our first event of Term 2. We are thrilled to be collaborating with @WarwickComicRes, and discussing Emerging Trans Voices in Comics. This event is set up as a reading group led by Dr Ash Kayte Stokoe from the University of Birmingham.

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

Thanks to everyone who attended the first event of the academic year on Italian comic book series Dylan Dog 🧟 It was great to see lots of familiar and new faces!

More infos on our next events coming soon 💥

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

The Warwick Comics Research Network will be taking part in the Festival of the Gothic in collaboration with @WarwickItalian and the Study Café with the workshop "London gothic ‘made in Italy’: Transnational, translational, and transmedial readings of Dylan Dog". 💬🧟