{"id":1820,"date":"2020-11-19T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:05","slug":"new-worlds-in-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/new-worlds-in-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"New Worlds in Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join Dundee Comic Creative Space for an online event on the 20th of November at 6pm for the launch of the latest Being Human Comic books as a part of the Being Human festival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/11\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_112559933_166351038732_1_original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1821\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/11\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_112559933_166351038732_1_original-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/11\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_112559933_166351038732_1_original-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/11\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_112559933_166351038732_1_original-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/11\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_112559933_166351038732_1_original.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The comics being launched are the first to highlight the pandemic, charting responses to the Covid-19 outbreak as well as lockdown. They reflect on the ways that we have all had to adjust to this new way of life over the last 9 months.<\/p>\n<p>The event will also feature the winner and runners-up from the Dundee Comics Prize competition, in which comic creators are asked to respond to the theme, New Worlds. Additionally, there will also be stories about exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Chris Murray will open with a quick talk on the history of science fiction comics and Professor Divya Jindal-Snape will discuss the creation of the Pandemic Tales.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more and to book your space, check out the event page here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/new-worlds-in-comics-tickets-122580757345?aff=efbeventtix\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/new-worlds-in-comics-tickets-122580757345?aff=efbeventtix<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Dundee Comic Creative Space for an online event on the 20th of November at 6pm for the launch of the latest Being Human Comic books as a part of the Being Human festival. The comics being launched are the first to highlight the pandemic, charting responses to the Covid-19 outbreak as well as lockdown. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6381,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/6381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}