Missed It: Benoit Peeters Named UK’s First Visiting Professor Of Graphic Fiction And Comic Art

This actually took place early Wednesday, so I'm not far from the story's origin but I still should have had it that day: Benoit Peeters -- a novelist, a scholar of Hergé and his work and a creative partner to Francois Schuiten on the Les Cites Obscures series -- will serve as Lancaster University's visiting professor in Graphic Fiction and Comic Art. It is the first such post in the UK.

Peeters will teach, run workshops and play an advisory role to post-graduate students appropriate to his assignment. It is a three-year post.

Something extremely interesting about the assignment above and beyond its groundbreaking aspects is that the post was created in partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. The appointment also received support from an organization devoted to increasing "the visibility of Belgium Francophone culture in UK," according to the linked-to article.
 
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