Paul Fisher Davies

Not done any posting for a while so I’m a bit out of the habit… but think I’m finally off to The Other App 🦋 … come find me there please.

You can find me now on Bluesky… bsky.app/profile/paulfi…

@Logan_D_L_Scott @YiqiZhangComics @CrosbieTweets @SimonGrennan_ (reviews of that book by @CrosbieTweets comicsgrid.com/article/id/356…, @eszterlikesrain muse.jhu.edu/article/698085…, and me berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… might be useful in orienting yourself to it! He also discusses it with @eallyn_woock here newbooksnetwork.com/a-theory-of-na…) /

Apologies to @YiqiZhangComics for this portrait, but she, @CrosbieTweets and @Logan_D_L_Scott brought day 1 to a great finish with a panel on virtual and material creation & consumption

Order back copies of the Inks special issue on "Understanding Comics at 30" here! --> press.jhu.edu/journals/cart/…

Paul Fisher Davies explores how comics theorists have built upon and offered alternatives to Scott McCloud's groundbreaking transitions model of meaning-making in comics. Read his essay, "What We Do in the Gutters: Or, If Not Transitions, What?" muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article…

@Logan_D_L_Scott Bought this one. Cheers Logan!

#IGNCC24 Elizabeth Woock on historical sounds in futuristic soundscapes - using memory studies to argue that that we draw on indexical sound memories to create unknown and unknowable sounds, activated through staging and blending earwitnessed/known sounds with the unknown

Did my little talk at #IGNCC24 this morning, about building a repository & community online, but forgot to give out the link clearly: unicorerecords.com 😊

Last day of #igncc24 off to a great start! @TheIGNCC #sketchnoting

Ending a creatively and intellectually packed day 2 at #IGNCC24 #sketchnotes @TheIGNCC

Ticket sales have now closed for this year’s IGNCC #ComicsStudies conference - if you’re joining us at @uniofeastanglia or online this week we can’t wait to see you! Please tweet using the #IGNCC24 hashtag

#sketchnoting at #igncc2024 where I’ll be talking later in the afternoon about… sketchnoting! ⁦@TheIGNCC⁩

I didn't come into politics to raise taxes on working people. Labour will not put up your income tax, national insurance or VAT. The Conservatives are the party of high tax.

So it seems the raise taxes £2,000 line is done by costing the Labour spending proposals and then calculating the impact pro-rata. Now of course even if correct it doesn't have to come from tax it could be from borrowing etc. #ITVdebate

Sunak "For the first time in UK history pensioners will pay tax". Is very inaccurate phrasing. Pensioners do pay tax just like everyone else. What he's talking about is paying tax if you get the full State Pension and have no other income. #ITVdebate

I was delighted to be able to chat about my book Comics as Communication with Elizabeth Woock a couple of weeks ago. You can listen to the podcast here: newbooksnetwork.com/comics-as-comm… #comics #comicsstudies

Featuring @brookes_gareth and @RachelEager2, @JoanOrm and others!

#IGNCC23 image scans from last week's amazing conference, as promised. Just one day = not enough!