A Virtual Roundtable with Hugo Frey, Hillary Chute, Mark McKinney, and Eszter Szep, moderated by Aubrey Gabel. … More Violence, Politics, and the Graphic Novel – Virtual Panel
In October 2021 I was invited by Lina Ghaibeh to hold a lecture to graphic design students about drawing and comics. I was and am still honored by this opportunity. … More Guest Lecturing at the American University of Beirut, Reporting on Arab Comics for TCJ
Andrew Godfrey-Meers looks at Comics and the Body from the perspective of Graphic Medicine on Comics Grid. … More The first review of my book is here
You can watch the 20-minute presentation on Monsters, a very creative and playful comic on STDs by Ken Dahl (penname for Gabby Schulz) on YouTube. This video was made for the Transitions 9: New Directions in Comics Studies conference in 2021. Before the actual video, I also would like to share sketchnotes made by fantastic … More Drawing and Transforming the Body in Ken Dahl’s Monsters: Video and Sketchnotes
2020 was the most productive year in my life if we look at the number of academic and non-academic publications – I have to add that a number of them were written in 2018. On a personal level, 2020 was difficult because of the isolation of COVID, my own weeks of being ill, and because of the lack of success in finding an academic or cultural job. … More 2020 – Publications, Podcast, Jobseeking
I made a short video to introduce the basic ideas of my book. … More Comics and the Body is now released
I talk about my personal journey as a comics scholar with Frederick Luis Aldama. I also talk about what I think of drawing, how comics and the body are related, and what my latest publications are about. It is an honor to be part of this videocast series. … More Video: Discussing Comics with Frederick Luis Aldama
I am happy and proud to show you the first academic comic I co-created: Lines and Bodies. This is an argumentative piece on some of the ways in which our bodies are involved in reading comics. It draws on theories by Laura U Marks, Robert Vischer, and James Elkins. The text and the art together … More “Lines and Bodies” – Academic Comic @ Sequentialsjournal.net
I am totally thrilled and mesmerized. I feel flattered by the care and attention of the editors and designers at the Ohio State University Press, and I am particularly grateful to Amanda Weiss, who drew the cover. The cover of my book represents everything that this book is about: first, the vulnerability of bodies, which … More The Cover of My Book is Here
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