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Associate Professor of English and Film @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. Author of Chester Brown (https://edushare.ing/C) and Serial Selves (https://edushare.ing/D) + editor of Chicago: A Literary History (https://edushare.ing/E).
I just received my author copies of this exciting volume. It contains 8 short comics about migration by a super-talented group of cartoonists, who worked with academics to create the narratives, and the resulting book exhibits an incredibly diverse approach to comics-making.
Want to buy my book Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics at a huge discount? Rutgers is offering the hardcover (usually $100+) at just $15 (!) if you enter this code at checkout: rauthor15. Buy it here: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/serial-selve...
Pirates, yes!
Check this out, @sequentialscholars.bsky.social and @claremontrun.bsky.social
Cover of book collection of comics about migration
I'm really excited that this amazing collection of short comics about migration that I helped edit will be out in October from U of Toronto Press. Cover art by the great Jonathon Dalton.
The book "Chester Brown" by Frederik Byrn Køhlert
A page from the book "Chester Brown" by Frederik Byrn Køhlert, showing a drawing by Brown of Ronald Reagan's head attached to a character's penis.
I just received my copies of my new book on Chester Brown—this was a fun one to write!
It can be ordered here: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Ches...
Congrats!
If you're an academic working on any aspect of comics and gender/sexuality, the two book series I edit are both open for submissions—so get in touch if you have an idea for a book!
You can see the existing titles here: www.routledge.com/Research-in-... and here: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Fo...
It's not that hard! :-)
Also, this is why you pay indexers instead of doing it yourself! I would never have thought to index this, but now it seems crucial to the book.
Image from a Chester Brown comic, showing Chester eating his own snot
This was a fun book to write!
Just received the index for my forthcoming book "Chester Brown," which was expertly prepared by @baindex.org, and was delighted to see this entry:
snot eating 27, 56, 57, 129n17
Read about the project behind "Crossing Lines: Comics about Human Migration" here: migration.ubc.ca/graphic-narr...
Check out "Chester Brown" here: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Ches...
It's not often that you get to send two book manuscripts off on the same day, but I've just submitted the final proofs for "Chester Brown," out in April from @upmississippi.bsky.social, & the revisions for "Crossing Lines: Comics about Human Migration," out sometime next year from U of Toronto P 🎉
There's also the companion series for shorter "Focus" books: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Fo...
Hello new followers! For those of you who are academics working on comics (or on comics-adjacent stuff), the book series I edit called Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics is open for submissions, so if you have an idea for a book get in touch! www.routledge.com/Research-in-...
I'd love to be in that starter pack too, Jared! Lots of work in comics studies, of course, but also two books on the literary history of Chicago.
me too! and thanks for doing this work—super helpful!
Gabby Schulz, one of my favorite cartoonists and someone I've written about a lot, now has a Patreon. If you can afford to support him, it will without a doubt be worth it: www.patreon.com/c/gabbyschul...
Here's my article on "Sick," an absolute masterpiece: muse.jhu.edu/article/764587
This was a fun one to write! My book on Canadian comics artist Chester Brown is out next year in the Biographix series from the University Press of Mississippi. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Ches...
This excellent book is out now in the series I edit on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics—check it out! We're always looking for cool projects for the series, so get in touch if you have an idea for a book.