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For this week's class in Film and Comics, we're watching the 2017 Wonder Woman movie alongside the New 52 Wonder Woman series by Brian Azzarello, Cliff Chiang & Tony Akins, and reading scholarship by miriam kent, Neal Curtis, @CarolynCocca, and Suzanne Scott.

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Next week's speaker in our Comics Studies Research Seminar Series is Julia Round from Bournemouth Uni, whose talk is entitled "Modification or Mutilation? Mash-ups and Reprints in British Girls’ Comics." Open to the UEA Community—join here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…

This week, we welcome Ryoko Matsuba from UEA's Sainsbury Institute, who will talk to our students about the place of comics in museums. Ryoko was one of the curators for the incredible 2019 Manga exhibition at British Museum, so we're very excited about this one!

For this week's class in our Film and Comics module, we're discussing politics and transnationalism by watching the 2012 movie Dredd and comparing it to the original comics published in 2000 AD Comics, alongside scholarship by Jochen Ecke, Christopher Murray, and UEA's own Ben Little.

This afternoon at 4!

Thanks for a great talk, Julia!

Interested in applying for our MA in Comics Studies? There's a special information session on the postgraduate degrees offered by our School tomorrow (Friday) at 12pm, as part of UEA's Postgraduate Open Week. Click here for more info and to register: uea.ac.uk/visit/postgrad…

This week, we're thrilled to welcome @isabelgreenberg as our in-class guest! Isabel will talk to our MA students about her work making comics, which of course includes amazing titles like The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, The One Hundred Nights of Hero, and Glass Town.

In our Film and Comics module this week, we're looking at global and transnational adaptations by comparing The Adventures of Tintin from 2011 with the original 1943 album The Secret of the Unicorn, and reading scholarship by Ann Miller, Bart Beaty, and Isabelle Vanderschelden.

Check out this cool new book on cosplay in the series on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics edited by our director!

Our student Fern came up with this cool challenge—what does a noisy comic look like?

Check out this great new book by Miriam Kent, who did her PhD here at UEA!

We're now accepting applications for September 2021 admission to our MA in Comics Studies here at the University of East Anglia. You can read about the programme in this comic and on our website (uea.ac.uk/ama/comics), but get in touch if you have specific questions for us.

Here’s a very cool-looking symposium

This week, our in-class guest is Emma Hayley, the Managing Director and Founder of SelfMadeHero, who will talk to our students about the UK comics publishing industry. We're really excited about adding this perspective to our course!

In this week's class for Film and Comics, we're looking at Hong Kong through reading Wing Shing Ma's Storm Riders and watching the 2009 wuxia adaptation Storm Warriors by the Pang Brothers.

Our Comics Studies Research Seminar next week is by Paul Williams from @ExeterEnglish, who will join us for a talk called "I L̵o̵v̵e̵ ̵H̵a̵t̵e̵ Love Photocopying: Minicomics, Counterpublics, and (Self-)Reproduction." Open to the UEA community—join here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…