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Inaugural lecture on 8th March
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be in Lancaster on 8th March, doing a public lecture on ‘Life in Graphic Biography’, followed by a book signing. It’s at the Storey, on Meeting House Lane, and it’s free. If you’d like to attend, you just need to register via Eventbrite.
There’s a write-up by John Freeman on Down the Tubes
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Happy New Year from Dotter & Co!
Last month I was contacted by Isabella Ford, a student at Lancaster University. I was delighted to hear that she’d been introduced to Dotter of her Father’s Eyes on her English Literature course there. How times have changed! Comics really are gaining a foothold as a legitimate art form. And about time too!I knew there were people working at Lancaster who liked the book; they invited me to do a keynote at a conference on literary celebrity a couple of years ago. Nevertheless it’s nice to know I’m on the syllabus now as well!
Isabella runs a careers website for women and she asked to interview me for it. Here’s the result, published yesterday. The website’s called She Works and it’s well worth a look.
All the best for a happy and healthy 2017 and try to keep cheerful in these interesting times. My slogan for last year was “Pessimism of the Intellect; Optimism of the Will”. I can’t remember who coined it, but I think I’ll be using it again this year.
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March update
This month’s activities have been varied and really rather interesting. Bryan and I did the first two of our talks on Sally Heathcote Suffragette for Read Regional 2015. So that’s Hull and North Tyneside library authorities done – seven more to go! We also took part in the exciting Dotter-based event on Storytelling &Adaptation for Huddersfield Literature Festival -which I’ve already posted about here.I’ve also done a couple of solo talks at universities. Last year, to my great surprise, I was invited to do the keynote lecture for a Lancaster
conference on Discourse on Literary Celebrity Across Genres. Stevie Marsden, one of the delegates, has just posted this lovely write-up. Some very agreeable post-grads at Queen Mary University had invited me to talk as well, so I’d tried out the lecture with them a couple of weeks previously.
Another busy month ahead. So where’s next, you ask? Barcelona, as guests of the Barcelona International Comics Fair. Now that should be nice! -
Lancaster University alumni magazine
I’ve now been profiled as a notable Lancaster University alumna.
