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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · 4d

Just a gentle reminder that we’re always looking for #ComicsStudies contributions - articles, interviews, short comics and reviews all welcome!

Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Studies in Comics
General CFP

Papers are welcomed for Studies in Comics, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal that aims to describe the nature of comics, to identify the medium as a distinct art form and to address its formal properties.

More 👉https://ow.ly/iUA550X2EZo

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Jun 30

Very happy to be in Brussels for #IGNCCIBDS25 #ComicsStudies conference - looking forward to a fabulous week of talks this week!

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Jun 17

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Jun 17

This Friday 20 June I’ll be running a FREE workshop on using dreams to kickstart your creative writing with Dr Rebecca Mills at Bournemouth Central Library - a few tickets still left at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dreamingwr..., come and join us!

Dreaming/Writing workshop

Learn about the use of dreams in genre fiction and visual media, and use your own dreams to kickstart your writing.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · Jun 11

I've written an article on 200 Years of British Comics for the
uniofbrighton.bsky.social Comics Research blog... blogs.brighton.ac.uk/comics/2025/... with thanks to @hypnojoo.bsky.social and @annalouwalker.bsky.social for for copy editing and peer review

200 Years of British Comics? | Comics and Graphic Narratives REG

Alex Fitch writes a piece of original research for this blog, asking the question: Is June 11th 2025 the 200th anniversary of British Comics? Origin ...

blogs.brighton.ac.uk

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · May 7

It turned out so well, thanks to great contributors - some really exciting chapters and arguments!

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · May 7

Pretty far, we have a chapter on 17th century broadsheets :) and a comics essay on Poe adaptations. Blurb and contents page here www.uwp.co.uk/book/horror-...

Horror and Comics | UWP

www.uwp.co.uk

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · May 7

Time to shamelessly promote this new #comicsstudies collection ‘Horror and Comics’ - edited by me, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social and @komkunyosying - and packed with #horror themed goodness and looking at a global selection of comics! Due to be published by university of wales press next month.

My hand holding a Hardback book entitled ‘Horror and Comics’ with a cover picture of some battered copies of creepy and various Spanish comics on a rack at a flea market

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Apr 22

Very excited to be heading to University of Ulster next week to give the keynote talk at the On The Margins #comicsstudies conference! I’m speaking about ‘Playing the Game’ and sports stories in British girls’ comics - so many fab stories to unveil!! www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar...

On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion

This two-day event focuses on exploring the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion.

www.ulster.ac.uk

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · Apr 11

in a world of reboots and remakes and sanitised slush you gotta fight back by writing something really really fucking Weird

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Gosh! Comics @goshcomics.bsky.social · Mar 7

We’re currently running a competition where the winner will get £50 store credit to spend at Gosh! To enter, simply follow us on Bluesky (if you're seeing this, then there's a good chance you already do)! We’ll be drawing the winner next week on Friday 14th March, so make sure to follow us by then.

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Mar 10

HB is excellent, I also loved B&B and Livestock too, tho it’s not horror. Ah I hope you like Misty - the Rebellion reprints have been solid, the Jaime Rumeu collection from Rebellion is almost all Misty stuff too and some of the best!

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Mar 10

Ah thanks - you too! I went out for rugby and karaoke and now have no voice for my sins 😆 How’s life?

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Mar 9

Some of my faves (both recent and otherwise) are The low, low woods (machiado & dani) Locke and Key (Hill & Rodriguez). Adamtine (Berry). Wytches (Snyder & Jock). Misty (if you like old comics!)

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · Mar 6

Proud to have a new article in The @uk.theconversation.com, co-written with @bournemouthuni.bsky.social’s Julia @hypnojoo.bsky.social Round, about @veradrew22.bsky.social’s groundbreaking LGBTQI+ superhero film The People’s Joker theconversation.com/the-peoples-...

The People’s Joker remixes familiar characters to create a new kind of comic book movie

This Joker is supported by a slew of recognisable Batman villains, such as the Riddler, Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy.

theconversation.com

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Mar 3

I also have this one which is fun www.amazon.co.uk/Brighton-Gra... there is ‘Brighton a very peculiar history’ too

Brighton: The Graphic Novel

Brighton: The Graphic Novel : Tim Pilcher, Bryan Talbot: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Mar 3

Copse is fab, out of print but I think there used to be a free pdf on her website, let me know if you can’t find it

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Mar 3

yep that one - consulting prof was a friend of my father in law 😆

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Mar 1

Evans

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Mar 1

Also stuff like Kate Evan copse which is excellent re 1990s eco protests

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Mar 1

Ooh good q. Struggling to think of general uk history ones, most I know of are on a specific event eg Peterloo, or place, I have ones for Brighton, Bristol, Dundee etc. also the awesome ‘you are Margaret thatcher’ by pat mills which is a choose ur own adventure style satire 😆

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Feb 5

Just sent back the final proofs for this new #ComicsStudies collection on #Horror
and Comics which has been so much fun to put together. Out in May from Uni of Wales Press

A flyer from UP Wales website for the new edited collection Horror and Comics. Cover shows old Italian and other horror comics hanging on a market stall.

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Jan 24

Hi #ComicsStudies BlueSky - I’m doing some research on recipes in children’s comics/annuals - if you have any strong memories or (even better) page scans etc hit up my messages please! Looking mainly at girls comics rn but I’d be interested to know where else recipes might appear…

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Jan 22

Gentle reminder that #CFP for the 2025 joint conference of #IGNCC and #IBDS is live - closes 31 Jan. Come explore The Taste of Comics (and #ComicsStudies) with us in Brussels (and online) in June/July! Details at www.IGNCC.com

The International Graphic Novel & Comics Conference - International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference

call for papers for international graphic novel and comics academic conference comics and technologies university of east anglia norwich 2024

www.IGNCC.com

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · Dec 17

Call for proposals for a free online conference on ‘Literatures & Medicines’ hosted by us lot at Bournemouth University next April. #Comicsstudies and #GraphicMedicine papers are very welcome, please share and submit! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...

Literatures & Medicines 2025 — Literatures &

www.litsampersand.org

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