Book Launch: Ernesto Priego's The Lockdown Chronicles. A Comic Strip Quarantine (2 November 2021)

Unedited Zoom recording of the online panel discussion to launch The Lockdown Chronicles. A Comic Strip Quarantine, by Ernesto Priego, Tuesday 2nd November 2021, 7pm GMT.

This online event was free but required registration. The comic is distributed by Good Comics. Contact goodcomics@hotmail.com to purchase copies or for press enquiries. https://www.goodcomics.co.uk/

Panelists
Professor Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Anna Feigenbaum, Bournemouth University
Dr Paddy Johnston, Good Comics
Francisco de la Mora, Symbola Comics
Dr Natalia Pérez, University of Southern California
and Dr Ernesto Priego, City, University of London

Published originally online during the early days of the pandemic, The Lockdown Chronicles is series of comic strips Ernesto made made reusing freely-available, openly-licensed or public domain items from news sources, digital collections and open data resources. The series documents and comments on the Covid-19 Pandemic from a UK perspective. This edition brings together the first 40 strips in print for the first time.

"This book brings together the first series of The Lockdown Chronicles, providing a real-life documentation of artmaking from inside the end times. If we were wise, we might pay attention to Priego’s messages; to listen to the voices from inside these graphic forms."

-Professor Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London, from the preface

About the author

Ernesto Priego has been actively promoting the study and practice of comics since the early 1990s. He has a keen interest in open access to information and the importance of documentation, design, participation, reuse, and the preservation of memory. He leads the Parables of Care: Responses to Dementia Care project, co-designing, with Simon Grennan and Peter Wilkins, comic books on the experience of dementia care (2017-2020). Comics have also influenced his poetic practice; he is the author of Not Even Dogs. Hay(na)ku Poems (2006); the amazing adventures of Gravity & Grace (2008); The Present Day. The Mañana Poems (2010), and The Strip Hay(na)ku Project. A Collaborative Experiment in Sequential Graphic Poetics (2019). He has also collaborated with comics artist Francisco de la Mora in co-designing comics on access to information, Covid, and disability. He co-founded and co-edits The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.