Some 12″s recorded in sequence in one go (human errors and all) to see January off.

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.

Deadline for full submissions: 31 August 2024.

Eat Out to Help Out reversed social distancing guidance and contributed to a second Covid wave. 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.

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

Honoured to have been invited as keynote speaker, along esteemed colleagues Zu Dominiak and Damon Herd.

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

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

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.

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.