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Frederik Byrn Køhlert

@frederikbk

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).

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Crossing Lines - University of Toronto Press A graphic anthology co-created by migration scholars and comics artists, Crossing Lines explores issues of displacement, identity, and community, offering nuanced perspectives amid rising anti-immigrant populism.

Read more and order here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

15.10.2025 15:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

15.10.2025 15:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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...

25.09.2025 12:16 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Pirates, yes!

24.08.2025 21:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Check this out, @sequentialscholars.bsky.social and @claremontrun.bsky.social

31.05.2025 08:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of book collection of comics about migration

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.

28.04.2025 09:54 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The book "Chester Brown" by Frederik Byrn Køhlert

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.

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...

20.03.2025 16:53 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats!

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Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press Routledge & CRC Press Series: Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics publishes original research in the areas of gender and sexuality studies as they relate to comics cultures pa

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...

13.02.2025 15:11 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's not that hard! :-)

14.12.2024 08:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

24.11.2024 13:39 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Image from a Chester Brown comic, showing Chester eating his own snot

Image from a Chester Brown comic, showing Chester eating his own snot

This was a fun book to write!

24.11.2024 11:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

24.11.2024 11:19 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1
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Graphic Narratives of Migration Workshop - Centre for Migration Studies On May 27-28, 2022, the Graphic Narratives of Migration research project brought together an interdisciplinary team of 39 UBC and Concordia migration scholars and Vancouver-based community practitione...

Read about the project behind "Crossing Lines: Comics about Human Migration" here: migration.ubc.ca/graphic-narr...

21.11.2024 18:33 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Chester Brown Best known for his alternative comics, Chester Brown (b. 1960) is one of the most acclaimed and influential cartoonists of the last half century. This first biography provides a critical account of Br...

Check out "Chester Brown" here: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Ches...

21.11.2024 18:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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 🎉

21.11.2024 18:33 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press Routledge & CRC Press Series: Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics publishes original short-form research in the areas of gender and sexuality studies as they relate to comics cu

There's also the companion series for shorter "Focus" books: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Fo...

15.11.2024 21:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press Routledge & CRC Press Series: Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics publishes original research in the areas of gender and sexuality studies as they relate to comics cultures pa

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-...

15.11.2024 21:05 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

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.

11.11.2024 11:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

me too! and thanks for doing this work—super helpful!

11.11.2024 11:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Get more from Gabby Schulz on Patreon comics, etc (official launch 10/21)

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

21.10.2024 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

21.10.2024 10:35 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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.

17.10.2023 09:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0