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Lydia Wysocki
Newcastle University venue for next Comics & Research: Applied Comics Network event
Newcastle University is to be the venue for a free Comics & Research: Applied Comics Network event next month. Speakers will be Lydia Wysocki (School of Education Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University), archaeological illustrator John Swogger, Florence Okoye (of… Read More ›
Applied Comics hints at big plans for 2019
2018 was a busy year was a busy year for inventive Newcastle upon Tyne-based comics provocateurs Applied Comics Etc. – and its driving force, Lydia Wysocki, has been hinting of major things to come this year
Looking Back at Thought Bubble 2018 and finding new ways to learn the comic craft
Artist and writer Gavin Pollock looks back at this year’s Thought Bubble Festival and reflects on its unique approach to promoting comics and, more widely the opportunities seeking to learn the comic craft it brings into focus… Thought Bubble day… Read More ›
Tynside’s freedom fighters immortalised in a new, free comic
Historical figures from Britain’s North East, including suffragette Emily Davison, the Jarrow Marchers and anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass are among the Tyneside radicals whose stories are told in Freedom City Comics, which is to be distributed free around Newcastle and… Read More ›
Wonderlands UK Graphic Novel Expo Returns to Sunderland in June
The Wonderlands UK Graphic Novel Expo is returning to the University of Sunderland City Space building on Saturday 3 June 2017. Running from 10am to 5pm it will feature its usual selection of talks, panels, workshops and a Publisher’s Hall of… Read More ›
Applied Comics seeks comic writers and artists for new
Lydia Wysocki over at Applied Comics Etc has dropped us a line appealing for comic creators to work on a great new project with a Civil Rights theme. “We’re making a comic to give children age 8-14 some context about… Read More ›
10 Days to Mancster Con 2015, celebrating indie sequential art in the North West
There are just ten days to go to MancsterCon 2015 on 29th August 2015, which will be held at the University of Salford Media City campus. Featured guests include Adam Cadwell, creator of Blood Blokes and Lydia Wysocki, creator of the Newcastle Science Comic, among others…. Read More ›
Free “Spineless” Comic released with 20,000 copy print run
I recently received a copy of Spineless comic from Lydia Wysocki at Applied Comics – a free comic put out under the Newcastle Science Comic banner about invertebrates published in partnership with the Spineless exhibition at Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle this summer. The exhibition and comic… Read More ›
Nerd Hutch Small Press Expo Hits Newcastle!
My abject apologues to the enthusiastic team behind Nerd Hutch, a day long event celebrating some of the UK’s hottest small press and DIY talent taking place tomorrow at the Travelling Man comic shop in Grainger Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Hosted on both floors… Read More ›
UnPearable, a fruity comic from Lydia Wysocki
Applied Comics Etc founder Lydia Wysocki, whose report on UnConference 2015 features here on DownTheTubes, kindly sent us her latest fun comic, UNpearABLE. It’s a quirky and fun thing she’s created in different ways that I’m sure you’ll be… Read More ›
Success of free “Asteroid Belter” comic springboards “Applied Comics Etc” project
Last year, the British Science Festival in Newcastle backed the creation of 10,000 copies of the wonderful, free Newcastle Science Comic Asteroid Belter, bringing science to life in a terrific comic newspaper, edited by editors Paul Thompson and Lydia Wysocki, whose over seventy… Read More ›
Comics Forum 2013 Registration Open
Registration is now open for Comics Forum 2013: Small Press and Undergrounds, which will be running at Leeds Central Library on the 21st and 22nd of November. This year features a fantastic lineup of speakers and papers, including a talk… Read More ›
Reading for pleasure helps kids in the classroom, says study (we know, say scientists)
Children who read for pleasure are likely to do significantly better at school than their peers, according to new research from the London-based Institute of Education. All the more reason to give them a comic, then – an ethos adopted… Read More ›
British Science Festival gets set to publish science comic
Science includes the study of epic themes. Themes so epic they go beyond research journals and textbooks. You know, the sort of epic themes that leap off the pages of comic books into the hearts and minds of children. The… Read More ›