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The Nimble Scholar: An Interview with Chris Murray by Ian Hague

Dr Chris Murray teaches English and Film Studies at the University of Dundee. He researches comics and organises two annual conferences: the Scottish Word and Image Group conference and the Annual Dundee Comics Day. He is also the co-editor of the journal Studies in Comics. In 2011, Chris was responsible for launching the UK’s first MLitt in Comics Studies, based in Dundee’s humanities department.

In this interview, conducted on the 29th of October 2011 at the University of Dundee, we discuss the value of studying comics, the place of Comics Studies in the universities, and where the discipline might be headed.

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Posted by Comics Forum on 2012/03/20 in Guest Writers, Interviews

Snapshots by Dan Berry

12 Mar

Interviews

At the end of 2010, I took it upon myself to interview as many comic artists, publishers, retailers and writers working in the UK as possible. There was a sense at the time that something was changing in comics. This change, however, was difficult to define. I asked a relatively standard set of questions that explored working process, influences and ambitions. I also asked the question ‘What do you think of the health of the UK comics scene at the moment, and what do you think it can do better?’

However hard it is to define change or progression, it is made all the harder to define without a benchmark against which to measure it. What I hoped for with these interviews was the beginnings of a record of popular opinion amongst the comics industry.

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