Ernesto Priego's blog. A personal repository of stuff.

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Ernesto Priego

The Post [?] Lockdown Chronicles: Maggie

You can keep the hidden treasures. Look below and say: these are my feet; this is the Earth and below  the substance of year after year. We spent days naming clouds. There were shapes of animals. Look up. You can hear yourself blinking. There is nothing here except this. It is true it all comes back to this hand,  these growing nails, hair where there was  none. No, I told you, there is no meter  to maintain these words in order.

The hidden treasures

A copyedited, annotated transcript of my interview with Martin Eve.

This work has been deposited on figshare as a PDF and can be cited as

 Priego, Ernesto; Eve, Martin Paul (2025). “If you want to make the world better, you’ve got to be prepared to put the groundwork in”: An Interview with Martin Eve on Social Justice and Design Justice in Open Access. figshare.

“If you want to make the world better, you’ve got to be prepared to put the groundwork in”: An Interview with Martin Eve on Social Justice and Design Justice in Open Access

In stressful times, finding inspiration is crucial.

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thought I’d share publicly here a message for my students I posted this term. I have edited it to remove internal links to libraries etc. Maybe someone else will find it interesting. Dear all, I just wanted to take a moment to send a message of solidarity, empathy, and understanding. I know these are stressful times—not just with coursework, assessments, and learning, but also with everything happening in the world.

A Personal Note [to my students] &amp; Some Reading Recommendations

On Friday the 13th of December 2024 our PhD student Linda Berube had her viva voce examination and was awarded a PhD with minor corrections in Human-Computer Interaction Design!

Friday the 13th of December this year was a day of achievement and celebration. Our PhD student Linda Berube had her viva voce examination and was awarded a PhD with minor corrections in Human-Computer Interaction Design!

Celebrating Linda Berube’s Success in Digital Comics PhD Viva

See you at Comics Forum 2024 this 14th and 15th November at Leeds Central Library!

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t’s that time of the year again and I am looking forward to attending and presenting at Comics Forum 2024! With the title “Between Bodies: Embodiment and Comics” Comics Forum will take place as usual at

 Leeds Central Library (UK)

on the

 14th and 15th of November

2024 as part of the annual Thought Bubble Festival.

Mexican Scholarly Insights on Women’s Representation in Comics at Comics Forum 2024

Dr Jonathan Evans and I will be presenting a joint paper at the Digital Humanities Congress 2024 in Sheffield.

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he University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute is hosting its two-day conference in Sheffield on the 4th and 5th September 2024. This will be a physical conference.

Degrowing the Digital Humanities: Presenting at the Digital Humanities Congress 2024, University of Sheffield (4-5 September 2024)

A note on the personal significance of collecting and listening to records, comparing it to meditation. I use Walter Benjamin’s concept of “erfahrung” to argue for the unique experience afforded by physical music formats. Finally, I share a mix of vinyl records.

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‘ve written here before about what it means to me to spend some time playing records and recording them the sessions to share later (also here). Taking the time to select, play, listen to and later rearrange and make recordings of my playing/listening sessions is for me akin to meditating, attentively watching a good film, reading a good book for pleasure or doing research.

Ride That Ridm: A New Session on Mixcloud, or, A Note On Vinyl-only Sets as Erfahrung

On how our constant connectivity demands a particular way of existing.

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‘ve lost count of how often I start my blog posts by admitting I haven’t blogged in a while. Long-form blogging seems to be on its way out, but it still holds a unique place in social media—it’s a constant source of guilt, never feeling frequent, good, seen, or shared enough. Now that’s out of the way, I want to briefly share some thoughts I’ve been mulling over recently.

Finding Equilibrium in a Hyperconnected World: The Struggle Against Burnout

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o supe en qué lengua tratar de contarles esto. Por algo el poeta intentó capturar esos momentos, más duraderos que sólo instantes, en que oscuridad y luz se seducen mutuamente. La mejor mañana después de un viaje de 11 horas, a contrareloj, es la primera: la noche ya es tu mañana, y la mañana ya es tu tarde. Las aves conocen de la circunferencia de la tierra, y cantan, con todo, en contra del permanente trafical de la avenida.

El crepúsculo de la mañana

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section.

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
 



is seeking contributions to its book reviews section. The journal seeks 2,000- to 2,500-word scholarly reviews of academic publications on comics and graphic novels, historical to contemporary, global north to global south, in all comics cultures.

The Comics Grid: Call for Comics Studies Book Reviews (Spring 2024)

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ecently we announced there’s new content in the journal, corresponding to our 13th and 14th volumes.Both volumes include a variety of work by 13 international scholars with affiliations in academic institutions based in nine different countries. I’d like to pesonally thank every author, editorial board member and peer reviewer who contributed to making the publication of these articles possible.

The Comics Grid: New and Recent Articles (2023-2024)

I repeat and update on the journal’s news section and Comics Grid’s end-of-year newsletter and wish this blog’s readers happy holidays.

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am getting everything ready before the holidays. Below I am sharing an update I posted yesterday on the journal’s news section and sent it as the Comics Grid’s end-of-year newsletter. Even though this means repeating the information, I hope it reaches more people. Thanks to everyone who reads this blog.

A Comics Grid 2023 Submissions Update and Season’s Greetings

Deadline for full submissions: 31 August 2024.

This post was originally published in the news section of the journal at https://www.comicsgrid.com/news/661/.


 Call for Submissions


 The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship


 Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction


 Special Collection Editors: Nancy Pedri (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) and Maria Juko (


 Independent

Call for Submissions. Graphic Biographical Fiction (Deadline: 31 August 2024). The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship Special Collection

Eat Out to Help Out reversed social distancing guidance and contributed to a second Covid wave. Hate to say we told you so.

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he UK Covid-19 Inquiry was set up “to examine the UK’s response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and learn lessons for the future”. At the time of typing this, you can catch up with the developments from the coverage here, or directly from the video recordings here, if you find the time. The evidence that has been presented at the Inquiry is hugely significant, but it is, sadly, nothing truly new.

UK Covid Inquiry: EOHO, Hate to Say We Told You So

Where I write, being día de muertos, about my copies of Rulfo’s El llano en llamas and Pedro Páramo.

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oday is 2 de noviembre, and as such it is and always will be día de muertos

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. Often an excuse not to write more is having ‘big’ topics that will become too complex and for which I won’t have the time to discuss as they deserve. Thought I could keep trying to write about some of the items in my personal library. As always, I am not promising anything.

Haunted by Juan Rulfo: On Books as Inheritance and Sites for Remembrance

In memoriam

Alan Grant, Norm Breyfogle, Adrienne Roy, Albert De Guzman, Dennis O’Neil and George Cordeiro.

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haven’t written here in a while, but it’s that time of the year. It’s also been a year since we moved to a house next to a Victorian cemetery. Before the clocks change, this week has had very dark mornings, and later in the day the light in the cemetery has been really beautiful.

We Gravely Read the Stones: Revisiting Detective Comics #610, January 1990

I will be presenting on Friday 8th September, 2023 with the title “Making Gatekeeping Transparent: Insights from a Decade of Trying Open Peer Review”.

I will be presenting at the Open Library of Humanities’

 The Lower Decks: A symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing

on Friday 8th September, 2023. The title of my panel participation is “Making Gatekeeping Transparent: Insights from a Decade of Trying Open Peer Review”, where I will discuss my experience as an editor managing peer review for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

Presenting at The Lower Decks. A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing. September 7–8, 2023 | Birkbeck, University of London

The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference. I share the programe here.

Web/Comics 2023 is the first in a new workshop series for the ACM Hypertext conference. The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference, 4th September, at the Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome. I am very happy to be able to share the program below.

Web/Comics: 1st International Workshop on Webcomics and/as Hypertext, 4 September, Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome – Program

We co-designed a poster to present at the Digital Humanities Conference 2023, Graz, Austria, 10-14 July 2023. You can download it open access.

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e co-designed a poster to present at the

 Digital Humanities Conference 2023

, which is taking place in Graz, Austria from the 10th to 14th July 2023. Have a look at the

 Conference Program.

You can also browse through the

 Book of Abstracts.

The Poster Reception will take place on Wednesday 12th July 2023 from 6:00pm-8:00pm at the MCG Gallery.

Our UK Digital Comics: Partnership and Collaboration Poster at the Digital Humanities Conference 2023 #DH2023

This year’s topic is one close to my heart (most literally if I may say so) and attending is a decision I did not take lightly.

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am pleased to share I’ll be attending The 2023 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel &amp; Comics and theInternational Bande Dessinée Society on the week of 3-7 July. It is being hosted by The Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. This year’s topic is one close to my heart (most literally if I may say so) and attending is a decision I did not take lightly.

Presenting at Better Living Through Comics: The 2023 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel &amp; Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society, Cambridge, 3-7 July 2023

I will participate the panel “Comics in the Capitalocene”, with my City colleagues Dr Dom Davies and PhD student Reed Puc.

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HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics” is an international conference that “sets out to critically assess the current state of research on graphic narrative as means of writing – and drawing – history and of examining, representing, and engaging with the past.” The conference will take place in the Amerikahaus and the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, Munich, Germany, June -15-17,

Presenting at HistorioGRAPHICS. Framing the Past in Comics, Munich, June 15–17, 2023

To live life like a Keith Jarrett  improvisation a forceful   subtleness a willingness to let things become  surprising both difficult   and sweet.

2018 Note to Self

A new publication with Linda Berube, Stephann Makri, Ian Cooke and Stella Wisdom.

Citation

Linda Berube, Stephann Makri, Ian Cooke, Ernesto Priego, and Stella Wisdom. 2023. “Webcomics Archive? Now I’m Interested”: Comics Readers Seeking Information in Web Archives. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 412–416.

 https://doi.org/10.1145/3576840.3578325.

Publication: “Webcomics Archive? Now I’m Interested”: Comics Readers Seeking Information in Web Archives

Senior Communications Officer John Stevenson (City, University of London) had a quick Q&amp;A with Professor Gray in anticipation of his seminar. We share it below: JS: How has the academy contributed to an awareness of the need for representation and diversity in graphics and comics? How do you assess your own contribution at CUNY?

What:

Professor Jonathan W. Gray from City University of New York will be giving a seminar titled “Social Depths: Race &amp; Disability in Comics &amp; Graphic Novels” at City, University of London.

 When:

Monday 20 February 2023, 6pm GMT.

 Where:

On campus at City, University of London, Room AG07b, College Building. [Campus Map].

Representing Race &amp; Disability in Comics: A Quick Q&amp;A with Jonathan W. Gray in Anticipation of his Seminar (City, University of London, 20 February 2023 6pm GMT)

Esta no es una pipa. Es un rastro de vida; una memoria de infancia.

Esta no es una pipa

You are invited to a seminar with Jonathan W. Gray (CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College, United States).

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e have organised an event with Jonathan W. Gray, Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center and John Jay College, United States. The seminar will take place on campus at City, University of London, Room AG07b, College Building, at 6pm (GMT) on Monday 20 February 2023.  [Campus Map].

Seminar: Social Depths: Representing Race &amp; Disability in Comics &amp; Graphic Novels (City, UoL, Mon 20 Feb 23 6pm GMT)

Fifteenth comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #15

On Friday 16 December 2022, Linda Berube will present our paper ‘My Heart Goes Boom Boom!”: Understanding the Experience of Reading Digital Comics’ at the Margins 22 conference.

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omorrow Friday 16 December 2022, Linda Berube be presenting our paper ‘

 My Heart Goes Boom Boom!”: Understanding the Experience of Reading Digital Comics’

-by Linda Berube (City, University of London), Ernesto Priego (yours truly, City, University of London), Stella Wisdom (British Library), Ian Cooke (British Library), and Stephann Makri (City, University of London) – at the

 On the Margins: Hypertext,

‘My Heart Goes Boom Boom!”: Understanding the Experience of Reading Digital Comics’ at On the Margins: Hypertext, Electronic Literature, Digital Humanities

Fourteenth comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #14

Sixth comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #6

First comic in what I hope will be a new experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #1

It is not clear what if anything we will leave behind for whom, what for, how long- it is not clear if we will have the right. Instead, even the rain  stops falling for a while and  filters through the cracks drops do drip and drip, brown into a marmalade jar, bricks rotting away  (since the distant past) Everybody is out and about and you are cocooned, indoors shrouded by sirens, and echoes.

Not Clear

Another one from the Lost Haiku series, in a hardcover black notebook (2019-2022).

There is no thing as total stillness sound is movement then the wind there are clouds behind the sunshine I sit in a corner and count the pebbles the shade under a tree the leaves dance imperceptibly

Untitled

Para Paty, Natalia y Camilla (salió en inglés).

Para Paty, Natalia y Camilla        "En hierva de primavera nos convertimos" -Aztec poem, as quoted by Alfonso Caso (1953) What is time when love and memory are eternal? Pages on the kitchen's calendar; the flickering of dates on screens. It is all about "having the courage to continue", as I remember the poet &amp; the thinker talk about, discuss distance as bodies in spirits, over the line.

A Year On

I had forgotten I had handwritten these notes in one of my notebooks and I thought I’d type them up and share them here.

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haven’t posted anything here in a while. The pandemic, changes in the social media ecosystem and a heavy workload have kept me away from this blog. I had forgotten I had handwritten these notes in one of my notebooks and I thought I’d type them up and share them here. They are based on my personal learning as a journal editor for over a decade.

Some Notes on Editing a Scholarly Journal

Destiny is rhyme and spring nine hells three heavens our  remains hard and sweet sugar. Mictlantecuhtli  wore bones as their amor owlsong at night voice of cougar. Destiny is rebirth dead wood regreened nine hells three heavens       the black path to Xibalbá our remains our names &amp; thirsts.

3. La calavera

So many thoughts of home burst with the smell then heat sight religiously a crowd of faithful revere the old woman el comal cóncavo la vida en la calle roots not la hoguera not chimenea cooking to  take away  the embers with  the hand of other braceros took braseros, died with them- a new land as promised legend. Arms, glowing coals abrazos and remembrance.

4. El brasero

On Wednesday 27th October 2021, as part of International Open Access Week, I will participate in the OLH Editors Workshop within the panel “Inclusivity in Scholarly Publishing”.

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his year’s International Open Access Week runs from 25

 th

– 31

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October 2021, and the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) has organised an OLH Editors Workshop.

Discussing Inclusivity in Scholarly Publishing within the Open Library of Humanities Editors Workshop, Wednesday 27th October 2021, 2-5pm (UK time)

Second poem in the Lotería series. In hay(na)ku form.

We come back to ourselves again and again and  again and again we know it as kids, remember  it as adults then come back up and down the thread hangs.

13. El yoyo

First poem in what hopefully will be a series. This one in hay(na)ku form.

For Paty In my language,  cog rattle, noisemaker,  ratchet: Signal to noise Arabic: from  مَطْرَق‎  maṭraq stick, hammer, chatterbox to knock, bang,  strike. Aramaic: from טרק‎  to hit, sting,  bite,  close a door,  mix. Talmud: pakia?  What is a  madra? Rav Papa  says:  An Arabian whip  whose end is split. Suena la matraca noisy, fun, old. Every  sound comes  from somewhere else. What fortunes will the racket bring?

7. La matraca

I’d like to dedicate this version to my mother and my sister, who are fluent in the languages of love, care, and mourning.

It’s been a while since I translated a poem. One morning while doing something else, you randomly take a book from the shelves, open it and find a poem that speaks to you, and calls you to translate it, in order to share it with others who also share your mother tongue.

Los seres queridos (una traducción de ‘The Dear Ones’, de Margaret Atwood)

Today!  Join us for our Comics Grid Webinar as part of International Open Access Week 2021.

Today!

Our

 Comics Grid Webinar

as part of International Open Access Week 2021.

 Date:

Tuesday 26 October 2021.

 Time:

4-5pm BST. Check your timezone here.

 Registration:

Free. Please register here.

 To join the webinar:

We recommend that attendees use Chrome to join. Collaborate works better if Google Chrome is used.

Wrestling Graphic Novels: A Comics Grid Webinar with Anna Marta Marini and Jessica Fontaine

On Thursday 23 September 2021, 18:30 UK time, I will give a talk as part of the UXPA UK Skecthing UX September Workshop.

XPA UK September 2021 – Sketching UX Workshop

About this event

 Thursday 23 September 2021, 18:30 – 20:00 UK Time.


 Free registration via EventBrite .

As the old adage goes, a picture tells 1000 words. We’re seeing an increase of visual storytelling in UX and indeed many UX events are already complemented by a detailed Sketchnote – possibly courtesy of one of our very own Committee Members.

UXPA UK September 2021 – Sketching UX Talk and Workshop – Co-designing Comics about Pandemic Experiences: Methods and Insights

Announcing User’s Manual, a newsletter for new writing.

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nspired by the work by friends such as f [s] and Karl Whitney, I’ve dared to set up a newsletter to get me writing more about different things. It’s a cliché I know but I’ve titled the new site/newsletter

 User’s Manual

. I’d like it to be an open notebook about memories, ideas, and things I care about.

User’s Manual: A New Writing Project…

What does “learning to live with the virus” really mean?

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his week I had to go in my local GP surgery in London. I wondered if they would soon be removing the “Stop Coronavirus! Covid-19. Please wear your face mask” signage they have visible outside and inside. Working from home long hours, I haven’t really gone out much at all, and seeing the signs again made me reflect what a simple gesture that was, merely asking us to please wear a facemask.

Notes on “Learning to Live with the Virus”

[This event was recorded and has been archived on the Embassy’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Embamexru/videos/158542686331722/ – no Facebook account required]

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his year’s Learning Disability Week will take place from 14 – 20 June 2021. The theme will be art and creativity.

#LearningDisabilityWeek 2021 Online Event: Chat on Covid-19 Response Comics at the Embassy of Mexico in the UK [15 June, 5-6 PM BST] #LDWeek2021 #LDArtWeek

Webinar. Thursday May 27, 2021 from 10:00am – 11:30am Zoom (no registration required).

High-impact Practices in Education Presents:


 May Online Research Café: Using Arts-informed Research Approaches to Explore the Lived Experiences of Dementia


 Thursday May 27, 2021 from 10:00am – 11:30am Vancouver time / 18:00hrs UK time on Zoom (no registration required). Passcode: 782011

This Research Café features two projects that involve Douglas College researchers and their research

May Online Research Café: Using Arts-informed Research Approaches to Explore the Lived Experiences of Dementia

Un cómic de 4 páginas que muestra un día en la vida de una familia con un niño con discapacidad durante la cuarentena del 2020 en el Reino Unido.

“Un verosímil y comovedor retrato de la vida en cuarentena” – cómic en respuesta al COVID-19 muestra un día en la vida de una familia con un niño con discapacidad en el Reino Unido



 Descarga el cómic en español en PDF de https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/26068


 Download the comic in English as a PDF from https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/26067


 Téléchargez la bande dessinée

Un día en cuarentena: cómic en respuesta al COVID-19 muestra un día en la vida de una familia con un niño con discapacidad en el Reino Unido

“A credible and touching picture of lockdown life.”

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 A credible and touching picture of lockdown life.”
 
 COVID-19 Response comic depicts a day in the life of a family with a child with a disability


 Download the comic in English as a PDF from https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/26067


 Download the Spanish version as a PDF from https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/26068


 Download the comic in French as a PDF from:

A Day in Lockdown:  COVID-19 Response comic depicts a day in the life of a family with a child with a disability

Remixed from the first Lockdown Chronicle, 7 April 2020, available at https://epriego.blog/2020/04/07/the-lockdown-chronicles-julian/

 Data sourced from

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk last updated on Wednesday 7 April 2021 at 4:00pm BST.

 Julian of Norwich

(late 1342 – after 1416) was an English anchorite.

The Lockdown Chronicles: Julian (2021 Remix)

José Antonio Rodríguez (1961-2021), historiador mexicano

 [An Automated English Translation of this post is available via Google Translate]

José Antonio Rodríguez (1961-2021)

Click on image to enlarge. *See The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Burnout, Sunday 21 February 2021. -Ed.

 Sources:

Panel 1: Andrew Sparrow, “Boris Johnson says more deaths inevitable whenever lockdown lifts as he sets out roadmap for England – as it happened”, The Guardian, Mon 22 Feb 2021 20.44 GMT. First published on Mon 22 Feb 2021 09.20 GMT.

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: One-Way Road

Click on image to enlarge. Sources: Panel 1: A dose of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine is seen near Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, based on photo by Michael Dantas/AFP/Getty Images. In Sarah Boseley, “Brazil variant evaded up to 61% of immunity in previous Covid cases”, The Guardian, Tue 2 Mar 2021 15.09 GMT. Panel 2: A traveller arrives at Heathrow airport, London, based on photo by James Veysey/Rex.

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Roadmap

Click on image to enlarge.

 Sources:

Panel 1: Lou Reed, “Venus in Furs”, The Velvet Underground &amp; Nico, 1967. Panel 2: The official UK Government website for data and insights on Coronavirus (COVID-19), last updated on Saturday 20 February 2021 at 4:00 pm, https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk; Sarah Marsh, “‘Pandemic burnout’ on rise as latest Covid lockdowns take toll”, The Guardian, Fri 5 Feb 2021 11.54 GMT.

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Burnout

Freedom of Speech Trading Cards

Click on image to enlarge. Based on a portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) by Vasili Perov, 1872, Public Domain., via Wikimedia Commons. A quick Friday reflection. Creativity, agency, time and space help us stay focused. We all need variety to maintain physical and mental health. Every action has an effect. Pauses can help us and others catch up- too many immediate responses disallow time and space for meaningful work.

Out of Office Trading Card

Call for Expressions of Interest. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship


 Editorial Positions

The editors of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship seek expressions of interest to join our editorial team in the following volunteer positions: ·

 Editorial and Peer Review Workflow Coordinator(s)

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Call for Expressions of Interest: Editorial Positions at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

Seventh comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #7

I recorded another vinyl-only session- this time a bit longer than usual…

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t’s Saturday and this morning I recorded another vinyl-only session- this time a bit longer than usual…

World Groove Remedy: An All-Vinyl Extended Lockdown Session

Líneas compuestas en insomnio a modo de ahuyentar a los fantasmas.

Federico García Lorca en el laboratorio de la Residencia de Estudiantes en 1923.

Sueños de la Alhambra (sonsonete insomne de madrugada)

Click on image to enlarge.

 Sources:

Panel 1: Titanic at Southampton docks, prior to departure, photographer unknown, 10 April 1912, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Titanic

Click on image to enlarge. Just sayin’.  N.B. I am not suggesting EOHO (sic) was the trigger, even less the sole trigger of the second wave. For me, however, EOHO scheme remains the poster strategy (as in “poster boy”) of the failed overall approach.

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Paying Dividends (Eoho!)

Click on image to enlarge. N.B. I am not suggesting EOHO (sic) was the trigger, even less the sole trigger of the second wave. For me, however, EOHO scheme remains the poster strategy (as in “poster boy”) of the failed overall approach.

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Pass 100,000

Click on image to enlarge. Cases. People tested positive. Latest data provided on 3 January 2021. Daily 54,990. Last 7 days 366,435. The latest R number is estimated at 1.1 to 1.3 with a daily infection growth rate range of +1% to +6% as of 23 December 2020.

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Back to School?!

This is most likely my last post from 2020. I have deposited on figshare a basic sheet listing a selection of my articles, blog posts and outputs I published openly during 2020.

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he end of the year is nigh and this is most likely my last post from 2020. Wishing you all safe and happy holidays and the best for 2021. In order to make sense of some the work I did this year I have deposited on figshare a basic sheet listing a selection of my articles, blog posts and outputs I published openly during 2020. It does not include every single thing I published, and does exclude my musical podcast episodes etc.

FWIW: A list of stuff I published in 2020

Click on image to enlarge. According to the official UK Government website for data and insights on Coronavirus (COVID-19), last updated on Thursday 05 November 2020 at 09:30pm, “The latest R number is estimated at 1.1 to 1.3 with a daily infection growth rate range of +2% to +4%.”. Source: https://coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/. With apologies to Harvey Pekar. This comic strip was published at lunchtime Friday 6 November 2020.

The Lockdown Chronicles S2 E1

Sharing the video recording and slides of my presentation on 10 December 2020 within the III Publishing, Research and Library and Information Science symposium organised by the Universidad Agustiniana, Bogotá, Colombia.

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ast night (Thursday 10 December 2020) I talked about 10 years of The Comics Grid and our experience with open access and social media for research dissemination in the III Publishing, Research and Library and Information Science symposium organised by the Universidad Agustiniana, Bogotá, Colombia

Video Recording and Slides from “Acceso abierto y redes sociales. Sobre 10 años de The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship”, III Encuentro de Investigadores, Editores y Bibliotecólogos, Universidad Agustiniana, Bogotá, Colombia

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ste jueves 10 de diciembre de 2020 a las 02:00 p.m. (hora Colombia) | 07:00 p.m. (hora Londres) participaré en el III Encuentro de Investigadores, Editores y Bibliotecólogos organizado por la Editorial Uniagustiniana, en el panel conversatorio titulado

 “

Ciencia en 280 caracteres: difusión científica y redes sociales”. Se me ha pedido hable sobre diez años de trabajo en The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship y el

Online Panel: Research Dissemination and Social Media: III Encuentro de Investigadores, Editores y Bibliotecólogos, 10/12/2020 @UniagustOficial

Where I share an invitation to two online events where I will participate this week.

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ime waits for no one. I’d like to invite you to two online synchronous events I will present in this week. Apologies for the short notice- too busy to even do this.

 Wednesday, 25 November 2020.

Two Online Synchronous Events: Wed 25 and Thurs 26 November 2020: On Comics, Dementia and Narrative Design, and Un sur epistemológico para las Humanidades Digitales

21 de Noviembre de 2020

Mi vida se ha vuelto muy anticlimática   Aunque agradezco el privilegio de vivir en paz y relativa seguridad.   Tanta gente no tiene eso, incluída gente cercana a nosotros.   Y sin embargo sí dan ganas de decir, no mames qué de hueva nos volvimos.

Un no-poema pandémico

Click on image to enlarge.  Source: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk. Original chart available under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The latest R number is estimated at 1.2 to 1.4 with a daily growth rate range of 3% to 6%. This comic published 23/10/20, CC-BY-NC-SA epriego.blog

The Semi-Lockdown Chronicles: Daily update. Last updated on&nbsp;Friday 23 October 2020 at 4:21pm

Sharing the article for UK Black History Month Linda Berube and I wrote for the City, University of London News, saying ‘grand narratives’ in comics research must be challenged.

Panel from The Legal Deposit and You, by Olivia Hicks (British Library 2018). Reproduced with permission from the British Library   Click

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to read the article for UK Black History Month Linda Berube and I wrote for the City, University of London News, saying ‘grand narratives’ in comics research must be challenged. Both authors contributed equally to this article.  Our gratitude to Ian Cooke and John Stevenson.

Reflecting on the diversity and complexity of comics for UK Black History Month

Click on image to enlarge. Moon Patrol was a video game produced by Irem in 1982. The situation however is indeed very serious and it seems like for some it’s just a game, and people are just scores. Behind every number there is pain and suffering and mourning and economic and spiritual anguish.

The Semi-Lockdown Chronicles: Daily Score, Wednesday 21 October 2020 at 08:06pm

Click on image to enlarge. Source images from the official UK Government website for data and insights on Coronavirus (COVID-19) at https://coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/. Daily Update. Last updated on Friday 16 October 2020 at 04:03pm.

The Semi-Lockdown Chronicles: Daily Update, Friday 16 October 2020 at 04:03pm

The Non-Lockdown Chronicles 3: Expecto Patronum!

I have finally taken the time to locate and restore the files that composed my 2003 MA dissertation, and to make them into a single PDF that I have now self-archived open access on figshare.

Panel from

 Maus

by Art Spiegelman (1991) “There are essential reasons for which a concept in the process of being formed always remains inadequate relative to what it ought to be, divided, disjointed between two forces. And this disjointedness has a necessary relationship with the structure of archivization. It follows, certainly, that Freudian psychoanalysis proposes a new theory of the archive;

For What It’s Worth: Self-archiving My 2003 MA Dissertation on Art Spiegelman’s Maus

An 18-year old clip of me being interviewed by Gregory Gransden on Mexican Comic Books for Greg’s 2002 Historietas documentary.

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long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. (Ah, yoof!)…. I was interviewed by Gregory Gransden on Mexican Comic Books for his 2002 Historietas documentary. Shared with Greg’s kind permission.

Time Machine: Where I discussed Mexican comic books with Greg Gransden in 2002

Click on image to enlarge. Data and charts sourced from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/. According to this source “COVID-19 cases are identified by taking specimens from people and sending these specimens to laboratories around the UK to be tested for COVID-19 antigens. If the test is positive, this is a referred to as a lab-confirmed case. If a person has had more than one positive test they are only counted as one case.

Everything is Connected

Two New Articles Published Today: ‘Where Comics and Cultural Heritage Meet’ and ‘Uses of Comics by Mental Health and Social Care Library Users’

Comics as COVID-19 Response: Now Deposited ‘Green’ Open Access

#IGNCC20 Workshop Materials: Ambiguity, Empathy and Narrative Co-Design: The User Experience of Reading Dementia Care Comic

Modern Times: A Quick Note on Editorial and Peer Review Work in Accelerated Publish-or-Perish Academic Cultures

In ACM Interactions Magazine: Comics as COVID-19 Response: Visualising the Experience of Video-conferencing

The Lockdown Chronicles 40: Daniel

The Lockdown Chronicles 39: Bernard

The Lockdown Chronicles 38: The Department of Health and Social Care

The Lockdown Chronicles 37: Stuart

The Lockdown Chronicles 36: George

The Lockdown Chronicles 35: Walter