Julia Round

Just a couple of weeks left to send in your chapter proposal for our proposed Companion to International #ComicsStudies, which aims to increase visibility of understudied comics cultures and industries. Very happy to hear from new voices and established ones - full details here lnkd.in/eq_eD52z.

Lilac top border with text saying ‘call for chapters’. Below is an image of southern hemisphere of the globe drawn in swirling blue and brown lines. Text below reads ‘Companion to International Comics Studies’.

#AcademicSky Please share this call for #ComicsStudies chapters for our proposed Companion to International Comics Studies as widely as possible. Full details here ow.ly/5vY050XipXT and deadline for proposals is 31 Jan 2026.

Many congrats to @charlottejohanne.bsky.social for this award winning #ComicsStudies article which we are delighted to have published in Studies in Comics! Free to read at the link below.

Thank you for sharing Keegan! Hope all’s good with you

it’s such a lovely looking collection!

Yes! Def in a few Misty stories - one that scared me was Flight of Fear where the character has a night she is thrown into a plague pit… there is also Black Agnes set in London plague. I have a database of plot summaries at juliaround.com/misty - if any sound familiar I can post scans…

Just a gentle reminder that we’re always looking for #ComicsStudies contributions - articles, interviews, short comics and reviews all welcome!

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

@bournemouthecho.bsky.social @drmllz.bsky.social @bmthwritingfest.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

Dreaming/Writing workshop Learn about the use of dreams in genre fiction and visual media, and use your own dreams to kickstart your writing.

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

It turned out so well, thanks to great contributors - some really exciting chapters and arguments!

Horror and Comics | UWP

Pretty far, we have a chapter on 17th century broadsheets :) and a comics essay on Poe adaptations. Blurb and contents page here www.uwp.co.uk/book/horror-...

My hand holding a Hardback book entitled ‘Horror and Comics’ with a cover picture of some battered copies of creepy and various Spanish comics on a rack at a flea market

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.

On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion This two-day event focuses on exploring the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion.

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.

HB is excellent, I also loved B&B and Livestock too, tho it’s not horror. Ah I hope you like Misty - the Rebellion reprints have been solid, the Jaime Rumeu collection from Rebellion is almost all Misty stuff too and some of the best!

Ah thanks - you too! I went out for rugby and karaoke and now have no voice for my sins 😆 How’s life?

Some of my faves (both recent and otherwise) are The low, low woods (machiado & dani) Locke and Key (Hill & Rodriguez). Adamtine (Berry). Wytches (Snyder & Jock). Misty (if you like old comics!)

The People’s Joker remixes familiar characters to create a new kind of comic book movie This Joker is supported by a slew of recognisable Batman villains, such as the Riddler, Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy.

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-...

I also have this one which is fun www.amazon.co.uk/Brighton-Gra... there is ‘Brighton a very peculiar history’ too

Copse is fab, out of print but I think there used to be a free pdf on her website, let me know if you can’t find it

yep that one - consulting prof was a friend of my father in law 😆

Evans

Also stuff like Kate Evan copse which is excellent re 1990s eco protests

Ooh good q. Struggling to think of general uk history ones, most I know of are on a specific event eg Peterloo, or place, I have ones for Brighton, Bristol, Dundee etc. also the awesome ‘you are Margaret thatcher’ by pat mills which is a choose ur own adventure style satire 😆

A flyer from UP Wales website for the new edited collection Horror and Comics. Cover shows old Italian and other horror comics hanging on a market stall.

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