Nancy Pedri reveals ‘Town: St. John’s in Comics’ anthology

Here’s my chat with Nancy Pedri about the Town: St. John’s in Comics anthology published by Black Panel Press.

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Nancy Pedri is Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, where she has taught since 2006. She is an award-winning author and has published extensively in the fields of comics studies, visual narratology, and word and image studies, including photography in literature. She has also edited or co-edited over 10 books or special issues of journal. Her latest monographs on comics, Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics with Silke Horstkotte (Ohio State UP) and A Concise Dictionary of Comics (UP of Mississippi) were published in 2022. Nancy is the curator of the recently published graphic novel Town: St. John’s in Comics.

Town: St. John’s in Comics, published by Black Panel Press, is a “graphic anthology that captures the spirit of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador — its crooked streets, tangled wires, salt-stained houses, and the people who live in them. Told by artists who call this place home, each story spotlights a different neighbourhood, from Rabbittown to Rawlin’s Cross, through a unique visual voice. Some are funny, some melancholic, some bursting with colour, and others inked in black and white, but all of them share the same beating heart: a deep connection to place. It’s not just a comic about a city. It’s a comic of a city — shaped by it, inspired by it, and impossible without it”.

You can discover more about Nancy Pedri on the Memorial University website MUN.ca/english/npedri

You can discover more about Town: St. John’s in Comics here

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