Happy New Year everyone! And look, events have conspired to arrange the start of a new chapter to ring in the new year. Neat!
Posts authored by Merlin
6.9. A Bold New Day
And as a new day dawns, chapter six concludes. Join us next week for what I’m boldly predicting to be both a new chapter (likely number seven) and a new year (I’m thinking probably 2022).
6.8. The Spirit Of Compromise
Yay compromise! It’s a Christmas Miracle!
6.7. Flawed Assumptions
Disclaimer: opinions expressed by members of the cast as to the relative badassness of the word “pentad” are not necessarily those held by the author.
6.6. A Better Configuration
Oooh yes! The Asymmetry Debate! I hope there are diagrams and everything.
6.5. Post-Retro-Neo-Ironic
For anyone interested in the digital comics discussion I mentioned last week, the video of the whole livestream is now up on YouTube over here.
6.4. Wish To Be
Hey folks, if you’d like to hear what I’ve been up to lately in the land of experimental comics, then I’m giving an online talk on Digital Narratives on Thursday that you’re very welcome to come along to. Full details available in this news post over here.
Digital Narratives Symposium
Comics Research Alert! On Thursday 25th November I’ll be taking part in an Online Research & Comics Seminar on Digital Narratives hosted by Newcastle University. I’ll be talking about some of the research I’ve been doing into Game Comic Walking Simulators, while Chris Bailey will be talking about his use of comics to transcribe children’s play in Minecraft. And then artist Kristyna Baczynski will be on hand to create a graphic response to the ideas we discuss at the symposium.
If you fancy coming along you’ll need to sign up to the event via this webpage. Even if you can’t make it on the day, if you sign up you’ll get access to a bunch of videos and other resources released at the start of the week. Then our live discussion will be taking place from 1.15 pm on Thursday.
6.3. Rough Day?
Earth-standard weeks are just the worst weeks.
6.2. Just Data
Mechra is always serious. And occasionally overly melodramatic.