Category: publication

Showcasing New Hungarian Comics and Graphic Novels (PDF!)

January 15, 2022

A catalog showcasing contemporary Hungarian comics came out in fall 2021, but I completely forgot to share the news here. I was working on New Hungarian Comics and Graphic Novels: Speech Bubbles to Leave You Speechless in the spring, it was commissioned by the Petőfi Literary Fund. It was big work: I selected the artists … More Showcasing New Hungarian Comics and Graphic Novels (PDF!)

2020 – Publications, Podcast, Jobseeking

January 7, 2021

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

New Publication: Children’s Comics in Hungary

November 17, 2020

In my essay I provide a background on the history of children’s comics in Hungary and also of the prevailing stereotypes about comics. The heritage of having ONLY adaptations of literary works during state socialism has not benefited the reputation of comics. I also write about the sudden change in the 1980s when comics reading children suddenly found themselves in a true transmedial environment. … More New Publication: Children’s Comics in Hungary

My Review of Nimona and Women in Battle is Out

June 7, 2020

… in Hungarian. The literary journal “Alföld” kindly commissioned comics reviews for its May issue (link). The plan was to sync these with the International Comics Festival Budapest. The festival was cancelled, and the journal ran out of funding so it only publishes online instead of print and cannot pay the authors for an indefinite … More My Review of Nimona and Women in Battle is Out

“Lines and Bodies” – Academic Comic @ Sequentialsjournal.net

May 23, 2020

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

Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies – Editorial Board

May 23, 2019

University of Nebraska Press has launched its comics studies series with a long-needed focus: “By looking at understudied and overlooked texts, artists, and publishers, Encapsulations facilitates a move away from the same “big” and oft-examined texts. Instead the series uses more diverse case studies to explore new and existing critical theories in tune with an … More Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies – Editorial Board