Contributors
Jeff Albertson Dr Jeff Albertson has worked in the liminal spaces between the humanities and neuroscience for
Brad Brooks is a graphic designer, cartoonist and writer based on the South Coast of England. He
nearly thirty years. A San Francisco native, he has conducted empirical research on the effects
has worked in and around comics for many years, including being the UK correspondent for The
of hallucinogens on the interpretive processes of male comic book readers. He is currently writ-
Comics Journal, co-founding the bilingual collective/publishing house Les Cartoonistes Dangereux,
ing a theoretical volume on tomography as multimodal storytelling, forthcoming in Ficticia
and co-writing (with Tim Pilcher) & designing two books on comics. Married with two daughters,
Academica Press.
he loathes writing biographies, but loves Arsenal FC and Apple computers.
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Tiago Canário
Dr James Baker is an Associate Lecturer in School of History at the University of Kent, Canterbury,
Tiago Canário is a journalist studying an MA in Communication and Contemporary Culture at
Project Manager of the ESRC funded ‘City and Region, 1400-1914’ project, collaborator with the
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil. His research focuses on the nouvelle manga movement,
British Cartoon Archive, and lead investigator of ‘Cradled in Caricature’ (symposium June 2011;
considering the relationships between the structure of manga and nouvelle vague’s narrative, also
conference Spring 2012). In September 2010 he completed a PhD in Cartoons and Caricature at the
discussing the construction of authorship in comics.
University of Kent, Canterbury, the title of which was ‘Isaac Cruikshank and the notion of British Liberty, 1783-1811’.
Esther Claudio Roberto Bartual
Esther Claudio is a PhD student whose thesis is about ergodic reading on comics and cyberculture. She and Roberto Bartual organised the International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels in
Roberto Bartual is a scholar, translator, writer and cineaste maudit. Spent a certain amount of his life
Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
in L.A. doing the only two things you can do in L.A. (smoke weed and hate films), so he decided to devote his life to comics: they are cheaper to make and usually better than movies. He likes to use French words once in a while and... you know, you can never trust people who use French words once in a while. A founding member and co-editor of The Comics Grid, he’s got a PhD from Universidad
Jason Dittmer
Autónoma de Madrid, in Graphic Narration and European Literature. He is currently based in Spain. Dr Jason Dittmer is Reader in Human Geography at University College London. As a political geographer, he is interested in the relationship between media, space, and representation.
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