@paulfisherdavies
Doctor of comics studies, language and linguistics teacher, author of Comics as Communication. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-29722-0#:~:text=About%20this%20book,of%20linguistic%20and%20multimodal%20communication.
Check out this page for the Comics in Theory and Practice roundtable we did a few weeks back. You can watch the talk halfway down the page.
Thanks to @karriefransman.bsky.social @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social and @miriamkent.bsky.social for a great chat!
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Rik Worth in front of a poster for the Comics: Theory and Practice round table
Gallery pages of Hocus Pocus by Worth, Collver and Watts
Has a great time chatting with Paul Davies and @karriefransman.bsky.social about comics and academia!
Special thanks to @miriamkent.bsky.social for putting it together
Thank you to @karriefransman.bsky.social @rikworth.bsky.social and @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social for the extremely insightful chat and thanks to everyone who came out in the characteristically inhospitable weather!
If any of you lovely people are in Leeds for the @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The Comics Research Group at Leeds University is hosting a roundtable and exhibition event on Comics Theory and Practice on Nov 12.
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Join us on Wednesday 12 November for a roundtable discussion about comics and research, featuring @karriefransman.bsky.social @rikworth.bsky.social and @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social, plus art to look at and snacks to enjoy! Book while you can, tickets are going fast!
I won't be able to make it to this excellent panel discussion with @karriefransman.bsky.social @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social and my boy Rik, but some of my art will be part of the exhibition alongsides greats like @nsousanis.bsky.social @kaysohini.bsky.social @cartoonkate.bsky.social !
Let’s all celebrate Superman co-creator Joe Shuster on his birthday July 10th!
Just a fraction of the conversation at @fesussex.bsky.social #fesussex panel on AI and the future of education…
Tech history and the future from @brightblack-arts.bsky.social in the second set of keynotes at #fesussex
Sketchnoting at FE Sussex today #fesussex
New report from CCIC, asking @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social to back the comics sector: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of...
Please SHARE, have a good READ, and if you like what you see, SIGN to show your support at lnkd.in/dmsKCc-d Thank you! #comics
I asked Grok what a president would do if he wanted to destroy his country. Grok listed the following:
Economic Sabotage, Undermining National Security, Social Division, Political Erosion and Attack the Rule of Law, International Isolation & Neglecting Crises.
Trump is checking all of the boxes.
Ah I thought this would have an automatic link… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘Something magical is happening’: sales boom for children’s comics creating young readers of the future
Love The Phoenix.
Hand drawn ink on paper sketch notes from Comics and Architectural Practice, Graphic Brighton 2024 final session with Sabba Khan, Alison Sampson and Henry Chebane in conversation with Alex Fitch.
Hand drawn ink on paper sketchnotes from Graphic Brighton 2024: Walking the Territory with Barbara Chamberlin and Architectural Comics round table with Clarrie Pope, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Woodrow Phoenix.
Hand drawn ink on paper sketchnotes from Graphic Brighton 2024: Miracle Windows panel with Karrie Fransman, Zara Slattery and Sabba Khan; Panel 4 Engaging with Graphic Architecture featuring Peeves Kallitsis and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
Hand drawn ink on paper sketchnotes from Graphic Brighton 2024: Panel 3 Comics and Flanerie with Trisha Dasgupta, Marion Eisenmann, and Reed Puc; Keynote with Enrique Bordes.
Late on the upload, but here are scans of my sketch notes from Graphic Brighton December 2024 #sketchnotes #comicsstudies #comics #architecture
Four panels of David Lynch (older white man with sticky-uppy white hair wearing a rumpled white shirt and dark suit jacket): 1. Serious face. “As soon as you finish a film” 2. Similar serious face “people want you to talk about it” 3. Scrunched-up amused face 4. Slight smile “and it’s, um, the film is the talking”
RIP to the king
The Art Life
Eulogies are, by their very nature, the hardest thing to write. When an artist dies it's tempting to fill the hole they leave in the universe with praise and analysis of their work. In the case of David Lynch his films, paintings and music are designed to speak for themselves
Yeah! We’ll have to talk more to sort out what that would look like. :)
Black and white pen and ink sketches of participants Sabba Khan, Alison Sampson and Henry Chebaane discussing comics and architectural practice, with notes on their comments on this subject, written in an a5 sketchbook.
Phew! Final panel at #graphicbrighton #comicsstudies conference. @alisonsampson.bsky.social, @henrylx8.bsky.social and Sabba Khan on #comics and architectural practice.
Sketchnote page showing Woodrow Phoenix, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Clarrie Pope in a panel on comics architecture. Above is a sketch of Barbara Chamberlin’s previous talk. The speakers are sketched in pen and ink with sketches of their work. Some notes surround them capturing the gist of their talks and comments they made.
Sketchnoting in #comics and #architecture at #graphicbrighton is making me very aware of the need to structure the page space for my notes and how that is related to the structure of the panels and of each paper. This planning interacts with the improvisation of where everything can go on the page.
Karrie Fransman, Sabba Khan and Zara Slattery in the background talking with Alex Fitch at Graphic Brighton comics conference. In the foreground, sketchnotes showing pen and ink sketches of the speakers and notes of their discussion of the work.
@karriefransman.bsky.social , @zaraslattery.bsky.social and Sabba Khan speaking with @panelborders.bsky.social at #graphicbrighton about their Canterbury Cathedral comics project #comics #comicsstudies #sketchnotes
Pens, glasses, and an open sketchbook showing notes from an academic conference of comics and the flâneur, including sketches of the speakers and their content in pen and ink.
The panel on flâneuring was suitably meandering — but led to an intriguing Q&A taking in Spider-Man, the upper and lower city, and the streets of Brighton. Space left for the keynote! #graphicbrighton #comics #comicsstudies
News! Graphic Brighton 2024 – Graphic Architecture is the Theme for this Year’s Two Days of Free Comics-Related Talks and Panels on December 13th-14th. www.brokenfrontier.com/graphic-brig...
Sketchnotes from Graphic Brighton conference, with pen and ink notes and drawings from three panel presentations completed in a journal sketchbook.
Sketchnoting this afternoon at #graphicbrighton — themed on comics and architecture. Missed the morning but an interesting first panel this afternoon exploring the social and personal value of spaces. #comicsstudies
Wow. This is important. Now on BlueSky
House of Commons
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House of Lords
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It’s happening👏
A series of podcasts were recorded during the Graphic Medicine Conference in Athlone and we are thrilled to be sharing them with you now!
These will be released very couple of weeks until they've all been shared.
#GraphicMedicine #GraphMed2024
Fantastic. There’s definitely a research project to be done on how people go about writing alt text for comics panels or pages…
My take on it is that comics do the *work* that language does, and it’s useful to describe that work in ways presented by functional linguistics — because it uses the resources of language to do its work as well as visual and drawn resources!
A mighty stack of prints, all in aid of the third 100 Words zine
A richly decorated manuscript page with many applications in gold that are well visible because of the uneven surface of the parchment. Light reflects from these letter.
Sometimes, because parchment undulates, even in digital facsimile we can see medieval illuminations as they would have looked with an indirect light source. Light and shadow made the page come alive every time it was used, for example, in a liturgical context.
BSB Clm 22311, late 9th century
