Julia Round

@hypnojoo.bsky.social

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Independent scholar and award-winning writer. Have taught at Bournemouth University, UAL and Bristol University. Mostly researching British comics, and especially the intersections of comics, gothic and children's lit. Ask me about Misty!

Lilac top border with text saying ‘call for chapters’. Below is an image of southern hemisphere of the globe drawn in swirling blue and brown lines. Text below reads ‘Companion to International Comics Studies’.
My hand holding a Hardback book entitled ‘Horror and Comics’ with a cover picture of some battered copies of creepy and various Spanish comics on a rack at a flea market
A flyer from UP Wales website for the new edited collection Horror and Comics. Cover shows old Italian and other horror comics hanging on a market stall.
An over decorated cmas tree. 6 extra bits of tinsel of various colours have been draped over the front in a rainbow shape.
Full page black and white comic about four girls at a boarding school
Comics panel of John Constantine: a blond man wearing a trench coat with a hand cupping a fireball
Two panels of a comics page in black and white. In the first a telephone operator at a switchboard is answering the phone. In the second a family of four tiny people are standing around a telephone receiver that is bigger than them and realising their voices are still too small to be heard.
Cover page from Black Widow in Misty - a woman in robes and a spider headdress dominates the page, with a blond and a dark haired teenage girl taking instructions from her.
Black and white comic book panel showing three young girls wearing hooded robes and black masks
Splash page in monochrome and red showing four female space adventurers posing heroically / gasping in fear
A splash page from the British comic book serial Supercats, full page in monochrome and red, showing four female space adventurers