Dear all, With apologies for cross-posting, a quick update from *The Comics Grid* below. Three Calls for Papers: 1. Call for Rapid Responses: Comics in and of The Moment Editors: Jeanette D’Arcy and Kay Sohini Deadline for abstracts of up to 500 words: June 15, 2021 Full info at: https://www.comicsgrid.com/news/443/ 2. Call for Papers: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution Editors: Jonathan Evans, Kathleen Dunley, and Ernesto Priego Deadline for submissions (full papers): June 30, 2021 Full info at https://www.comicsgrid.com/news/419/ 3. Call for Papers: Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes Ediors: Alexandra Alberda, Anna Feigenbaum, and Julia Round Deadline (full papers): April 1, 2022 Full info at https://www.comicsgrid.com/news/435/ Our Next Webinar: The Comics Grid Webinar Series - Live Chats on Comics Scholarship Graphic Science and Narrative Drawing: A Comics Grid Webinar with Lydia Wysocki and Paul Fisher Davies Date: Tuesday June 1, 2021. Time: 4-5pm BST. Check your timezone here <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Comics+Grid+Webinar%3A+Narrative+Drawing+and+Graphic+Science+in+Comics&iso=20210601T16&p1=136&ah=1> . Registration: Free. Full info at https://www.comicsgrid.com/news/441/ On this third webinar co-hosted by Paula Clemente Vega (Open Library of Humanities) and Dr Nicolas Labarre (editor of *The Comics Grid's* Graphic Science Special Collection; Université Bordeaux Montaigne) panelists Lydia Wysocki (Newcastle University) and Dr Paul Fisher Davies (East Sussex College) will discuss the following *Comics Grid* articles: • Wysocki L., (2018) “Farting Jellyfish and Synergistic Opportunities: The Story and Evaluation of Newcastle Science Comic”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 8(0). p.6. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.119 • Davies P., (2018) “Enacting Graphic Mark-Making: A Review of A Theory of Narrative Drawing”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 8(0). p.7. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.127 Panelists: Lydia Wysocki is an educational researcher at Newcastle University, using sociocultural theory to explore how what people read influences how they understand the social world. She founded and leads Applied Comics Etc, working with subject specialists and comics artist-writers to make comics that communicate specific information. Dr Paul Fisher Davies gained his Ph.D. in 2017 in the school of English at University of Sussex. His monograph *Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach* was published by Palgrave in December 2019. He has published in Studies in *Comics, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics*, and *The Comics Grid* amongst others, including academic work in comics form. He currently teaches English Language at East Sussex College in Lewes, UK. As well as studying and writing about graphic narrative form, he has written a collection of graphic short stories, with previews archived at www.crosbies.co.uk. Hosts: Paula Clemente Vega (Open Library of Humanities) and Dr Nicolas Labarre (editor of *The Comics Grid's *Graphic Science Special Collection; Université Bordeaux Montaigne). *The Comics Grid* Webinar Series offers an online opportunity to chat live with authors about their articles published recently in the journal. Each episode focuses on two articles whose potential thematic and/or methodological interconnections can be explored and contrasted in order to stimulate scholarly discussion, collective learning and further research. You can watch the previous two webinars of the series, here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq9676xHYXQ&list=PLj2olTMuke-nm-08V-Nb3iG0U7lS35P9D> . Onwards, Dr Ernesto Priego Editor The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship https://www.comicsgrid.com/ @ernestopriego http://epriego.blog/ <https://epriego.wordpress.com/> The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Parables of Care: https://blogs.city.ac.uk/parablesofcare/ Symbola Comics: https://figshare.com/collections/Symbola_Comics/4090025 Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj The information contained in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail. The contents of this e-mail must not be forwarded, disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of any related organisations, projects, colleagues or employers.