Events

Speech Bubble

Speech Bubble is a comics reading group that meets fortnightly in Room T4 in the Tower Building at the University of Dundee. It is run by Dr Megan Sinclair.

Being Human Festival

Since 2015, the Division of Humanities at the University of Dundee has hosted events as part of the UK’s annual Being Human Festival. This is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities and is a celebration of humanities research through public engagement. The festival is led by the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, the UK’s national centre for the pursuit, support and promotion of research in the humanities, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. The University of Dundee’s participation is led by Dr Daniel Cook. Each year SCCS and DCCS produce a comic that responds to the theme of the festival. Examples of these comics may be accessed via the Publications section of this webpage.

Dundee Comics Prize

The Dundee Comics Prize is awarded by the University of Dundee. It started in 2011 as part of Dundee Comics Day, but since 2015 the competition has been run in conjunction with the Being Human Festival and presented at a launch event in November. Entrants submit a short comic (5 pages) in response to the theme of the Festival. The winning creator/creative team is awarded £500 and publication of their story in a comic produced by UniVerse. Stories by runners-up may also be published.
 
The aim of the competition is to nurture comics talent. Anyone can enter and the submission can be in any style, in black and white or colour, but the work must be original, not published elsewhere, complete (lettered, inked, etc), and suitable for publication at A4 size.
 

Dundee Comics Day

The University of Dundee’s Comics Day started in 2007 as part of the Dundee Literary Festival. It attracted top comics industry talent, who gave insightful and lively talks about their creative process and careers. The event ran every year until 2015, when it became part of the annual Being Human Festival events at the University of Dundee. Some aspects of the former Dundee Comics Day also feature in the University of Dundee’s Festival of the Future and the Being Human Festival. 
 
Past guests have included Grant Morrison, Dave Gibbons, Frank Quietly, Woodrow Phoenix,  Maria Stoian, Mary Talbot, Tom Gauld, Peter Doherty, Rian Hughes, Frazer Irving, Cameron Stewart, John Wagner, Monty Nero, Neil Slorance, Dan McDaid, Sydney Jordan, John Ridgway, Ian Kennedy, Robbie Morrison, Simon Fraser, Andrew Wildman, Tanya Roberts, Kev Hopgood, Warren Ellis, Bryan Talbot, Alan Grant, Alan Davis, Pat Mills, Simon Furman, Dez Skinn, Rian Hughes, Nana Li, Gary Erskine, Hunt Emerson, Metaphrog, Keith Robson, Ilya, Emma Vieceli, Morris Heggie, Bill McLoughlin, David Bishop,  Andrzej Klimowski, and Danusia Schejbal.
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DeeCAP

DeeCAP combines comic art and performance and was conceived as a way for an audience to experience comics in a very different environment from the usual solitary reading of strips in books or tablets. It also allows comics creators to think about their process in a new way. At a DeeCAP show visual imagery, which can include comics, art or illustrations, are projected onto a screen behind the presenters as they read out stories and interact with the pictures.

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Dee Con

Dee Con and DOJ-CON, is an anime, comics, games and animation convention held on the University of Dundee campus, usually in March or April. It’s a whole day of jolly good fun, featuring artist’s tables, film screenings, industry presentations, cosplaying, and a whole lot more! It is also the fundraiser for the Animation Degree Show at DJCAD and is organised by Animation students, often with a little help from SCCS.

Public Engagement Events and Public Involvement Workshops

As part of its commitment to public engagement and involvement the University of Dundee and the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law organise several events each year to bring the public onto the campus. SCCS plays a role in such activities in addition to organising and participating in events based in the local community. This often takes the form of workshops with school children and young people, as well as events hosted by charities and other partners.

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