About the scholar Dr. Eszter Szép works for the promotion and advancement of comics in various roles. She teaches comics, and visual culture studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of […]
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Eszter Szép Interview
Dr. Szép talks about the importance of the line or the trace, how reading comics is a give and take experience, and reflects on the act of making comics in […]
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Neil Cohn, Who Understands Comics? (Bloomsbury Academic: 2020)
About the scholar Dr. Neil Cohn is currently an Associate Professor at the Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication at Tilburg University, in the Netherlands, Neil Cohn is an American cognitive scientist best known for […]
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Neil Cohn Interview
Dr. Neil Cohn discusses some common misconceptions about comics, the ability to read and make comics, and how drawings are at the core of so many creations. Listen to more The […]
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Chris Bishop, Medievalist Comics and the American Century (University Press of Mississippi: 2016)
About the scholar Dr. Chris Bishop is a honorary lecturer at the Australian National University. He has published widely on the history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, […]
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Chris Bishop Interview
Dr. Bishop talks about the uses and abuses of classical and medieval texts in popular media, the value of studying flops, and how we all might misunderstand history for our […]
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Simon Grennan, A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2017)
About the scholar Dr. Simon Grennan is a Professor of Art and Design, at the University of Chester and has been practicing internationally as an artist since 1990. As part the […]
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Simon Grennan Interview
In this Interview Dr. Simon Grennan discusses different strategies for reading this book, explains the graphiotactic array, and talks about how one can draw in drag. Listen to more The […]
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Kate Polak, Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics (Ohio State University Press: 2017)
About the scholar Dr. Kate Polak is a writer, artist, performer, and scholar specializing in comics, poetry, 21st century women writers, and the literatures of genocide. She is an Instructor […]
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Kate Polak Interview
Dr. Polak talks about empathy in reading comics, how narratives of violence can lead readers to consider ethics, and the tricky bits of graphic memoir. Listen to more The interview […]
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Johannes C. P. Schmid, Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2021)
About the scholar Dr. Johannes Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany, and associate editor at American Studies: A Quarterly, the official journal of the German Society for American Studies […]
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Johannes Schmid Interview
Dr. Schmid talks about how war photography led him to documentary comics, dives deeper into the role of the author, and speaks about the issues to consider when consuming documentary […]
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Geraint D’Arcy, Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2020)
About the scholar Dr. Geraint D’Arcy is a lecturer in Media Practice, at the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia in the UK […]
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Geraint D’Arcy Interview
Dr. D’Arcy covers inspirations from the worlds of theatre, film, and comics, the materiality of puppets and comics, and the mystery of what’s inside Snoopy’s dog house. Listen to more […]
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Harriet Earle: Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War (University Press of Mississippi: 2017)
About the scholar Dr Harriet Earle is a senior lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University and a Research Fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at the […]
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Harriet Earle Interview
Dr. Earle talks about the challenges of analyzing war comics, the silencing of certain characters in war stories, and graphic proclivities of conflict narratives. Listen to more The interview audio […]