Last week’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival Auction raised a staggering £15,000 towards next year’s Festival (14-16 October 2016) with the expert help of TV presenter, comics writer and expert Jonathan Ross and Kendal’s local MP Tim Farron. Organised by Peter Kessler and hosted… Read More ›
Lancaster University has appointed renowned French graphic novelist and critic Benoit Peeters as its Visiting Professor in Graphic Fiction and Comic Art, the first ever such appointment in the UK. The news was announced by Professor Simon Guy, Dean of the University’s Faculty of… Read More ›
British Education Secretary Michael Gove recently suggested that teenagers should read Middlemarch rather than Twilight. But new research from Lancaster University shows that Gothic fiction aimed at Young Adults can be as rewarding a topic for study as the literary… Read More ›
This got right up my nose this week: a Lancaster University lecturer has declared rich people should come first on matters of transport. Law lecturer Richard Austen-Baker, who works at Lancaster University’s law school, took magazine Private Eye to task… Read More ›