Title: “Crossing Over: Hocus Pocus and the Magic of Comics in Research” Description: The creators of the Eisner Award-nominated comic Hocus Pocus: Magic, Mystery and The Mind (Vanishing Inc, 2023) explore their unique approach to merging research with comics. They discuss the distinctive capacity of comics as a medium for communicating research findings and how comics can be...
Writing the Now: Conjuncture Image credit: 'Osmosis' ally walsh, 2016. Photograph: Fenia Kotsopoulou. The Writing the Now collective is pleased to be joined by four fantastic UK writers - Jemma Desai; Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan; Lola Olufemi and Sita Balani to engage on our theme of 'Conjuncture' in an online roundtable. The question of how to capture the distinctiveness of our present moment...
Title: “Who Cares for Comics? Graphic Medicine and Comics Artforms” Description: This event focuses on the intersection of comics and healthcare in the context of graphic medicine. It features experts Kay Sohini, a comics practitioner specialising in healthcare justice, and Jared Garder, a comics historian with a focus on comics and medicine. They will discuss the...