Test Post again

Dundee University has announced that its English department will offer a one-year Masters in Comic Studies, to launch at the start of the new academic year this autumn, the BBC reports and will be lead by a name well known to those in comics studies in the UK, Doctor Chris Murray, with modules set to include subjects such as autobipgraphical comics work and the relationships between different international comics, with workshops on more practical subjects such as script writing and artwork also available. Interesting to see – the course joins the academic studies in science fiction at the University of Liverpool in taking an area of literature that hasn’t always had the respect it deserves and giving it some serious attention and it seems highly appropriate it should be offered by Dundee given the university’s support of the city’s comic day, organised by Doctor Murray (part of the Dundee Literary Festival, the next one is on October 30th and should include Frank Quitely, John Wagner, Cam Kennedy and Colin MacNeil), and because, of course, it is the home to the mighty DC Thomson publishing family which has been a major force in British comics for the best part of a century.