Paul Fisher Davies explores how comics theorists have built upon and offered alternatives to Scott McCloud's groundbreaking transitions model of meaning-making in comics. Read his essay, "What We Do in the Gutters: Or, If Not Transitions, What?" muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article…

Order back copies of the Inks special issue on "Understanding Comics at 30" here! --> press.jhu.edu/journals/cart/…

I was delighted to be able to chat about my book Comics as Communication with Elizabeth Woock a couple of weeks ago. You can listen to the podcast here: newbooksnetwork.com/comics-as-comm… #comics #comicsstudies

Sunak "For the first time in UK history pensioners will pay tax". Is very inaccurate phrasing. Pensioners do pay tax just like everyone else. What he's talking about is paying tax if you get the full State Pension and have no other income. #ITVdebate

So it seems the raise taxes £2,000 line is done by costing the Labour spending proposals and then calculating the impact pro-rata. Now of course even if correct it doesn't have to come from tax it could be from borrowing etc. #ITVdebate

I didn't come into politics to raise taxes on working people. Labour will not put up your income tax, national insurance or VAT. The Conservatives are the party of high tax.

You may not remember this, but back in 2019 Boris Johnson pulled out of various debates and interviews. Guess who deputised... I've been looking at exactly what Rishi Sunak promised voters five years ago. WATCH. SHARE. ~AA

Ticket sales have now closed for this year’s IGNCC #ComicsStudies conference - if you’re joining us at UEA or online this week we can’t wait to see you! Please tweet using the #IGNCC24 hashtag

#sketchnoting at #igncc2024 where I’ll be talking later in the afternoon about… sketchnoting! ⁦International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference⁩

#IGNCC24 Elizabeth Woock on historical sounds in futuristic soundscapes - using memory studies to argue that that we draw on indexical sound memories to create unknown and unknowable sounds, activated through staging and blending earwitnessed/known sounds with the unknown

Did my little talk at #IGNCC24 this morning, about building a repository & community online, but forgot to give out the link clearly: unicorerecords.com 😊

Ending a creatively and intellectually packed day 2 at #IGNCC24 #sketchnotes International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference

Last day of #igncc24 off to a great start! International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference #sketchnoting

Apologies to Yiqi Zhang for this portrait, but she, Paul Fisher Davies and Logan Scott brought day 1 to a great finish with a panel on virtual and material creation & consumption

Logan Scott Yiqi Zhang Paul Fisher Davies Simon Grennan (reviews of that book by Paul Fisher Davies comicsgrid.com/article/id/356…, Dr. Eszter Szép 🦕🦖🦆🦉The Great Unconformity muse.jhu.edu/article/698085…, and me berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… might be useful in orienting yourself to it! He also discusses it with E. Allyn Woock here newbooksnetwork.com/a-theory-of-na…) /

Not done any posting for a while so I’m a bit out of the habit… but think I’m finally off to The Other App 🦋 … come find me there please.

You can find me now on Bluesky… bsky.app/profile/paulfi…