Remembering UK Comics: Series Index

REMEMBERING UK COMICS

Edited and curated by William Proctor and Julia Round

As editors on the ‘Remembering UK Comics’ series, we are both delighted with the generous wealth of material that contributors provided. Thanks to each and every one of you for keeping British Comics history alive and in rude health. As the series has closed, we thought it would be productive to share the full contents of the series with easy to access links to each of the essays, interviews and discussions. To British comics studies scholars, and comics readers in general, we know that we have barely scratched the surface with the series, but our first and only mission was to spread the word to those who may not know much about the rich, varied, and generically broad landscape that British comics inhabited for over a century, so we must also thank Henry Jenkins for being so keen on the idea, and for handing us the keys to Confessions of an Aca-Fan for the best part of three months or so. We hope you enjoy the series as much we have had in curating it.

Thanks to each of our contributors: Mel Gibson, Roger Sabin, Michael Connerty, Joan Ormrod, Dona Pursall, Dave Miller, Adam Twycross, Martin Barker, Andrew Edwards, Olivia Hicks, Zu Dominiak, John Caro, Chris Murray, David Huxley, Maggie Gray, James Chapman, and Will Brooker.

For scholars interested in learning more about British Comics History, the BBC ran a three-part documentary in 2008 titled Comics Britannia. The second part is difficult to track down, but here are links to the first and third parts:

Comics Britannia (Part 1, ‘The Fun Factory’)

Comics Britannia (Part 3, ‘X-rated, Anarchy in the UK’)

Contents

1.  Remembering UK Comics: A Conversation with William Proctor and Julia Round

Part 1

Part 2

2. Comics, Childhood and Memory: An Autobiography

Mel Gibson

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

3. Misty and the Horrible History of British Comics

Julia Round

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

4.  The Early Development of the Comic Strip in the UK

Roger Sabin and Michael Connerty

Part 1

Part 2

5.  Promoting Tommy Steel Through 1950s UK Comics

Joan Ormrod

Part 1

Part 2

6. On The Beano: Naughty National Icons and a History of Misbehaviour

Dona Pursall

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

7. The Beano’s Lord Snooty

Dave Miller

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

8. More than Mere Ornament: Reclaiming Jane

Adam Twycross

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

9. An Interview with Martin Barker

Part 1

Part 2

10. Less is More: Alan Moore’s 2000AD Short Stories

Andrew Edwards

Part 1

Part 2

11. Super-Cats and Fantasta-Cats

Olivia Hicks and Zu Dominiak

One-Shot

12. Celebrating Action: The Comic of the Streets

John Caro

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

13. Tracing Scottish Comics History

Chris Murray

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

14. Adventures Underground—UK Underground Comix (1969-1982): A Memoir

David Huxley

Part 1

Part 2

15.  UK Underground Comix: Ar:Zak, the Birmingham Arts Lab, and Street Comix #4

Maggie Gray

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

16. British Comics Go to the Movies

James Chapman

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

17..  Crisis on Inbetween Earths

Will Brooker

Part 1

Part 2

18. Preserving British Comics: A Call to Arms!

Julia Round and Chris Murray

One-Shot

Dr William Proctor is Principal Lecturer in Film & Transmedia at Bournemouth University, UK. He has published widely on various topics related to popular culture, including Batman. James Bond, Stephen King, Star Wars and more. William is a leading expert on franchise reboots, and is currently writing his debut monograph, Reboot Culture: Comics, Film, Transmedia (forthcoming, Palgrave). He is the co-editor of Global Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth (with Matthew Freeman, Routledge 2018), and Disney’s Star Wars: Forces of Promotion, Production, and Reception (with Richard McCulloch, University of Iowa Press 2019).

Dr Julia Round is a Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK. She is one of the editors of Studies in Comics journal (Intellect Books) and a co-organiser of the annual International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (IGNCC). Her first book was Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (McFarland, 2014), followed by the edited collection Real Lives, Celebrity Stories (Bloomsbury, 2014). In 2015 she received the Inge Award for Comics Scholarship for her research, which focuses on Gothic, comics, and children’s literature. She has recently completed two AHRC-funded studies examining how digital transformations affect young people's reading. Her new book Misty and Gothic for Girls in British Comics (forthcoming from UP Mississippi, 2019) examines the presence of Gothic themes and aesthetics in children’s comics, and is accompanied by a searchable database of all the stories (with summaries, previously unknown creator credits, and origins), available at her website www.juliaround.com.