BU Research Blog

Professor Anna Feigenbaum takes her team’s AHRC-funded #Covidcomics research on the real and virtual road. First stop was the Lakes International Comics Arts Festival on 15^th October where the team launched their ‘Humanising Public Health’ and ‘Infocomics vs Infodemics’ Comic Guides to Best Practice illustrated by FMC alumni Dr Alexandra Alberda. Sustainably traveling by five trains to Kendal, the team met comics artists and scholars from around the world and watched their very first ‘hot air balloon debate.’ On the back of the festival, Professor Feigenbaum was invited to speak to the Oxford Comics Network at Oxford University on 4^th November, this time from her office chair. Later that week the project was picked up by BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme with Professor Feigenbaum as a guest, in the lead up to Saturday 13^th November’s Being Human Festival event that turns the team’s research project into an interactive drawing workshop co-designed by MAMC alumni Conor Byrne, #covidcomics and me. For more on the project and the research team check out our website, designed by CI Dr. Jose Blazquez: https://www.covidcomics.org/