Ernesto Priego's blog. A personal repository of stuff.

Another one from the Lost Haiku series, in a hardcover black notebook (2019-2022).

Ernesto Priego

There is no thing as total stillness sound is movement then the wind there are clouds behind the sunshine I sit in a corner and count the pebbles the shade under a tree the leaves dance imperceptibly

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Eat Out to Help Out reversed social distancing guidance and contributed to a second Covid wave. Hate to say we told you so.

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he UK Covid-19 Inquiry was set up “to examine the UK’s response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and learn lessons for the future”. At the time of typing this, you can catch up with the developments from the coverage here, or directly from the video recordings here, if you find the time. The evidence that has been presented at the Inquiry is hugely significant, but it is, sadly, nothing truly new.

UK Covid Inquiry: EOHO, Hate to Say We Told You So

The Lockdown Chronicles 32: Eglantyne

Merry Christmas and a happy new year! I made this ‘card’ reusing a British Library Public Domain digitised image from 1868.

Season’s Greetings 1868 (2022 Remix)

Twelveth comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #12

Fourth comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #4

Fifth comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #5

Third comic in what now has become a new experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #3

Originally posted on Digital Cultures (AMM 421): Time has flown and today we have the final session(s) of our Digital Cultures modules. We have attempted to offer a kaleidoscope of perspectives that might help us to re-configure the digital media/digital culture landscape.


Week 5: Digital Societies?

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Paying Dividends (Eoho!)

The so-called Nabokov Genitalia Cabinet in Nabokov’s former office at Harvard University’s Comparative Zoology department. (Photograph from Nancy Pick’s and Mark Sloan’s The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History).


Nabokov’s Cabinet

This term I will be leading the Libraries and Publishing in an Information Society (LAPIS) module at City University London.  The first session is tomorrow.


Libraries and Publishing in an Information Society (#LibPub)

The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference. I share the programe here.

Web/Comics 2023 is the first in a new workshop series for the ACM Hypertext conference. The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference, 4th September, at the Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome. I am very happy to be able to share the program below.

Web/Comics: 1st International Workshop on Webcomics and/as Hypertext, 4 September, Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome – Program

I shared two first drafts of a couple of alluvial charts I made visualising a dataset of the 25 highest scoring peer-reviewed articles with the term “Africa” in the title.


The Triple A: Africa, Access, Altmetrics

I am very happy to announce the publication of The Comics Grid’s latest special collection, out now in technicolour open access.


New Comics Grid Special Collection! ‘Rapid Responses: Comics in and of the Moment’

8. Los gallitos

35. El molcajete

An online event to launch The Lockdown Chronicles. A Comic Strip Quarantine by Ernesto Priego. Panel discussion and a virtual toast!


The Lockdown Chronicles Released On Print; Book Launch (Online) on the 2nd of November 2021, 7PM GMT

New year. Starting from our own positions.


Switch It Off and On Again

I hcreated an infographic showing the three interventions adivsed by SAGE:  more people working from home, facemasks in crowded indoor spaces, and ventilation.


COVID-19 ‘Personal Responsibility’ Infographic: 3 is the Magic Number

“A credible and touching picture of lockdown life.”


A Day in Lockdown:  COVID-19 Response comic depicts a day in the life of a family with a child with a disability

Happy Easter Holidays… (You might need to zoom-in).


The Lockdown Chronicles: After-effects

You are invited to this City HCID Research Seminar on the UK Coronavirus Dashboard via Zoom.


HCID Research Seminar: UK Coronavirus Dashboard: From Concept to Reality by Pouria Hadjibagheri [February 17, 2021 11:00 AM GMT]

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have now deposited on figshare my deck of slides from my presentation yesterday in Part B of the Lightning Talks on Day 1 of the LIS Bibliometrics 2021 conference (28 April 2021).

 Priego, Ernesto (2021): Using the Altmetric Explorer for Responsible Metrics as a Researcher, Author and Journal Editor. figshare. Presentation.

Slides from #LISBIB21 Lightning Talk: Using the Altmetric Explorer for Responsible Metrics as a Researcher, Author and Journal Editor [28 April 2021]

Presentaré en el seminario virtual “Las ciencias sociales y los entornos digitales” de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.


Webinar: El campo de estudios del cómic y la narrativa gráfica – 16-03-2021, 9AM CST/3PM GMT #ComicsStudies

CHI2021 extended abstract now deposited.


Now Deposited: SketCHI 4.0: Hands-On Special Interest Group on Remote Sketching in HCI

Call for Expressions of Interest: Editorial Positions at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Je Suis Bernie

Líneas compuestas en insomnio a modo de ahuyentar a los fantasmas.


Sueños de la Alhambra (sonsonete insomne de madrugada)

A new published poem by me in Visual verse, inspired by an image by Michael Easterling.


‘Definitions’,  in Visual Verse Vol. 8, Chapter 3 (January 2021)

100,000+ and counting. With apologies to W.H. Auden (1907–1973) and every Auden purist.


The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2- In Memoriam

Morrissey sobre México. De las páginas 450, 453-455. (Penguin Books 2013). Traducción de Ernesto Priego.


México en la Autobiografía de Morrissey

Maggie got her vaccine. Click on title to access.


The Post [?] Lockdown Chronicles: Maggie

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Ski Holiday Postcard

The Semi-Lockdown Chronicles: Postcard from Half Term

I have finally taken the time to locate and restore the files that composed my 2003 MA dissertation, and to make them into a single PDF that I have now self-archived open access on figshare.


For What It’s Worth: Self-archiving My 2003 MA Dissertation on Art Spiegelman’s Maus

Episode 2 in a series of auobiographical vinyl-only lockdown sessions.


20th Century Boy-  Episode 2 in an Autobiographical Vinyl-Only Lockdown Sessions series

Can we design new, safe interactions for the pandemic world?


The Pandemic as Opportunity: Designing ‘New Normal’ Human Interactions

At The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, the most frequent query I receive is about the time it takes to get a decision and get published. I share here my position on article processing times in the journal.


Modern Times: A Quick Note on Editorial and Peer Review Work in Accelerated Publish-or-Perish Academic Cultures

The Lockdown Chronicles 34: Susan

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section.

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
 



is seeking contributions to its book reviews section. The journal seeks 2,000- to 2,500-word scholarly reviews of academic publications on comics and graphic novels, historical to contemporary, global north to global south, in all comics cultures.

The Comics Grid: Call for Comics Studies Book Reviews (Spring 2024)

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nce more I feel inclined to write something about recovering time, focus and agency for ourselves. The very act of writing, and of writing something

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, is a key part of that need. Writing, not an email, not a text message, not work notes, not a post or comment on other social media, but taking the time to write, just because, as an attempt to make time and reconsider things.

The Practice of Writing for Self-Reflection and Agency

The Digital Humanities 2014 conference took place Monday 7 July 2014 – Saturday 12 July 2014 in Lausanne, Switzerland. I have shared on figshare an .XLS file containing a dataset of Tweets tagged with #dh2014 (case not sensitive).


An Incomplete #dh2014 Twitter Archive (Conference Days Only)

Where I write, being día de muertos, about my copies of Rulfo’s El llano en llamas and Pedro Páramo.

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oday is 2 de noviembre, and as such it is and always will be día de muertos

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. Often an excuse not to write more is having ‘big’ topics that will become too complex and for which I won’t have the time to discuss as they deserve. Thought I could keep trying to write about some of the items in my personal library. As always, I am not promising anything.

Haunted by Juan Rulfo: On Books as Inheritance and Sites for Remembrance

Where I  look at some of the creative ways people responded to and processed the impact of the pandemic on their lives.

Covid Stories
 

uses material from across The British Library’s collections to highlight a variety of perspectives and reflections on the pandemic in the UK. These are grouped into reflective articles, each featuring a number of accessible ‘collection items’ to promote thought and discussion on this momentous period in our shared history.

 Covid Stories

was funded by UKRI AHRC as part of the ‘NHS Voices of

Creative responses to the Covid-19 pandemic – my article for The British Library’s Covid Stories

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ike every year I drafted an end-of-year newsletter round-up for The Comics Grid this year. 2022 was our 12th year and therefore our 12th volume. I’d like to personally thank everyone involved in the production of the Grid: without everyone’s participation nothing would have been possible. For personal preservation purposes I have copied and pasted below the text from the newsletter.

Closing 2022 at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

It came to me in a dream: a poem about poetry is not poetry the words we use are never ours it cannot rhyme, 'cause times have changed the flow is out of joint, as is our world no periods, no accents, except the one we speak with we write in tongues we were not born with it came to me in a dream I no longer remember only the voice of a friend asking where I was and we write like kittens licking a blank page on a typewriter our language sandpaper

It Came to Me In a Dream

Webcomics/hypertext scholars! There’s still time to submit. See you in Rome or online?

The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference, 4 or 5 September, at the Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome. Remote participation can be considered. Participants are asked to submit a short lightning paper representing current work or original thinking in this area with the intention of encouraging interactive group discussion.

CFP: Web/Comics 2023- deadline extended to July 4; Workshop 4 September

29. El soplador

Recording of Professor Jonathan W. Gray’s 20 February 2023 talk at City, University of London.

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onathan W. Gray, Associate Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College, talked on the representation of race and disability in comics at City, University of London, on Monday, 20th February 2023. We have now shared the video recording.

Recording: Social Depths: Representing Race &amp; Disability in Comics &amp; Graphic Novels – Jonathan W. Gray

3. La calavera

4. El brasero

1. El sombrero

Second poem in the Lotería series. In hay(na)ku form.


13. El yoyo

First poem in what hopefully will be a series. This one in hay(na)ku form.


7. La matraca

On Wednesday 27th October 2021, as part of International Open Access Week, I will participate in the OLH Editors Workshop within the panel “Inclusivity in Scholarly Publishing”.


Discussing Inclusivity in Scholarly Publishing within the Open Library of Humanities Editors Workshop, Wednesday 27th October 2021, 2-5pm (UK time)

Webinar. Thursday May 27, 2021 from 10:00am – 11:30am Zoom (no registration required).


May Online Research Café: Using Arts-informed Research Approaches to Explore the Lived Experiences of Dementia

Thinking about this issue of the “pastness” of my record collection and the “presentness” of playback. Includes episode 1 of a series of autobiographical sessions.


20th Century Boy- Notes on Listening and Recording Vinyl Records as an Autobiographical Practice

The Lockdown Chronicles 40: Daniel

Announcing User’s Manual, a newsletter for new writing.


User’s Manual: A New Writing Project…

[This event was recorded and has been archived on the Embassy’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Embamexru/videos/158542686331722/ – no Facebook account required] This year’s Learning Disability Week will take place from 14 – 20 June 2021. The theme will be art and creativity.


#LearningDisabilityWeek 2021 Online Event: Chat on Covid-19 Response Comics at the Embassy of Mexico in the UK [15 June, 5-6 PM BST] #LDWeek2021 #LDArtWeek

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: One-Way Road

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Burnout

Freedom of Speech Trading Cards

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Square One (but Much Worse)

To wrap-up the year and the decade…. Dunley, K., Priego, E. and Wilkins, P., 2020. Our Pandemic Year: On the Comics Scholarship to Come.


Wrapping up the 10th Volume of The Comics Grid! Our Pandemic Year: On the Comics Scholarship to Come

Este jueves 10 de diciembre de 2020 a las 02:00 p.m. (hora Colombia) | 07:00 p.m. (hora Londres) participaré en el III Encuentro de Investigadores, Editores y Bibliotecólogos organizado por la Editorial Uniagustiniana, en el panel titulado “Ciencia en 280 caracteres: difusión científica y redes sociales”.


Online Panel: Research Dissemination and Social Media: III Encuentro de Investigadores, Editores y Bibliotecólogos, 10/12/2020 @UniagustOficial

Un no-poema pandémico

The Non-Lockdown Chronicles 3: Expecto Patronum!

Like London buses, two new journal articles appeared nearly at the same time today.


Two New Articles Published Today: ‘Where Comics and Cultural Heritage Meet’ and  ‘Uses of Comics by Mental Health and Social Care Library Users’

The Lockdown Chronicles 27: Ludwig

“Comics as COVID-19 Response: Visualising the Experience of Video-conferencing with Ageing Relatives” was published yesterday in ACM Interactions Magazine.


In ACM Interactions Magazine: Comics as COVID-19 Response: Visualising the Experience of Video-conferencing

The Lockdown Chronicles 7: Sarah

The Lockdown Chronicles 39: Bernard

The Lockdown Chronicles 24: Herman

The Lockdown Chronicles 18: Walt

Virginia said she would order the flowers herself.


The Lockdown Chronicles 14: Virginia

Pepys keeps count of the increasing fatalities, and the safety he feels being in the “City” relatively diminishes as the plague gets very close home.


“In a sickly time”: Reading Pepys in 2020

Juana is looking after her sick sisters.


The Lockdown Chronicles 9: Juana

Samuel is an extrovert. Staying at home is hard for him.


The Lockdown Chronicles 4: Samuel

Francisco de la Mora and I co-created a poster for a call by the World Health Organisation to use any creative medium to produce work that captures one of their coronavirus key messages. We submitted this poster under the “Viral Contagion” theme.


Physical Distancing: Everyone is Different; Let’s Be Kind

I woke up this morning thinking/T.S. Eliot had no clue


The Burial of the Dead

Announcing the release of a new output in the Parables of Care series:  I Know How This Ends: Stories of Dementia Care (2020).


Using narrative to convey the experience of dementia care-giving: I Know How This Ends: Stories of Dementia Care

The British Library and City, University of London will offer a fully-funded PhD studentship on ‘Understanding UK digital comics information and publishing practices: From creation to consumption.’


Digital Comics AHRC Collaborative PhD Opportunities with the British Library

A new translation of Parables of Care (2017) makes comic about  creative responses to dementia care available to German speaking audiences


Parabeln der Pflege: new translation of Parables of Care makes comic about dementia care available to German-speaking audiences

Sharing the podcast in memoriam Manrico Montero.


Manrico Montero (1973-2018) In Memoriam

The advert for the UK Digital Comics information and publishing practices: from creation to consumption PhD studentship opportunity is now available.


PhD studentship-Understanding UK digital comics information and publishing practices: From creation to consumption

Here’s a listing of the articles we published during 2019, our 9th volume, by section.


This was 2019 in The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (Vol. 9)

Today I will give a talk as part of the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design’s HCID Research Seminar series: The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. Implications for HCID.


HCID Research Seminar:  The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. Implications for HCID

On learning to interrogate our own privilege in order to build more transparent, accountable, fairer scholarly organisations.


Openness, Transparency, Accountability: On New Ways of Being Scholarly

I will present at the HCID Open Day 2018 on Friday 4th May at City, University of London as part of the knowledge exchange and impact activities around the Parables of Care project.


Presenting at HCID Open Day 2018: On Comics and  Collaborative Art Practice as Human-Computer Interaction Methodology

Creating Comics, Creative Comics is a 2-day academic symposium. Friday June 1st &amp; Saturday June 2nd 2018.


Presenting at The First USW Cardiff: Comics Symposium- Creating Comics, Creative Comics

I was interviewed by the Open Library of Humanities for their Open Insights series today, part of their EmpowOA programme.


Open Insights Interview

En el pasado se te acababa el papel o la tinta.


Impasse

Dr Simon Grennan (University of Chester) will present at the HCID Research Seminar series at City, University of London (College Building, Room A214) tomorrow Friday 17 November at 1pm.


HCID Research Seminar: Making Parables of Care

Segunda entrada en esta serie. Espero no la última.


Última parada

Parables of Care, a comic that adapts dementia care stories from the Care’N’Share app, is out now.


Parables of Care: A Comic About Dementia Care, Available for Free

Dr Abi Roper is speech and language therapist and researcher passionate about technology use within atypical speech &amp; language populations. Recently Abi asked me some questions about working on Parables of Care.


Interviewed by Abi Roper re: Parables of Care

Repository Fringe is a gathering for repository managers and others interested in research data repositories and publication repositories. I collected an archive of #rfringe17, containing 1118 Tweet IDs. I then analysed the text of the tweets with Voyant Tools to identify most frequent terms and refined the results to 230 terms.


#rfringe17: Top 230 Terms in Tweetage

The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. I made a quick mix with some of my favourite tunes.


The Strangest Secret: A Great 78s Mix

Everything is Connected

High-impact Practices in Education Presents:



May Online Research Café: Using Arts-informed Research Approaches to Explore the Lived Experiences of Dementia



Thursday May 27, 2021 from 10:00am – 11:30am Vancouver time / 18:00hrs UK time on <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://douglascollege-ca.zoom.us/j/65889822559?pwd=b3VNM3orc3RoS0VFS1Nxdk1TaFpqZz09" target="_blank">Zoom</a> (no registration required). Passcode: 782011



This Research Café features two projects that involve Douglas College researchers and their research collaborators:



Parables of Care: Using Comics to Enhance the Impact of Dementia Care Practice and Research



<ul><li>Peter Wilkins, Douglas College</li><li>Ernesto Priego, City, University of London</li><li>Simon Grennan, University of Chester</li><li>Ruhina Rana, Douglas College</li></ul>



Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experiences of Dementia



<ul><li>Colleen Reid, Douglas College</li><li>Chad Hershler, Deer Crossing the Art Farm</li><li>Bruce Devereux, Christenson Village</li></ul>



The presenters will describe the genesis of their projects, their interdisciplinary approach, and their vision for the future of dementia research. These partnership-driven projects demonstrate the potential for innovative College-based research.



Thursday May 27, 2021 from 10:00am – 11:30am <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://douglascollege-ca.zoom.us/j/65889822559?pwd=b3VNM3orc3RoS0VFS1Nxdk1TaFpqZz09" target="_blank">Zoom</a> (no registration requiThursday May 27, 2021 from 10:00am – 11:30am Vancouver time / 18:00hrs UK time on <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://douglascollege-ca.zoom.us/j/65889822559?pwd=b3VNM3orc3RoS0VFS1Nxdk1TaFpqZz09" target="_blank">Zoom</a> (no registration required). Passcode: 782011



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**High-impact Practices in Education Presents:**

**May Online Research Café: Using Arts-informed Research Approaches to
Explore the Lived Experiences of Dementia**

**Thursday May 27, 2021 from 10:00am -- 11:30am Vancouver time /
18:00hrs UK time on
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target="_blank"} (no registration required). Passcode: 782011**

This Research Café features two projects that involve Douglas College
researchers and their research collaborators:

**Parables of Care: Using Comics to Enhance the Impact of Dementia Care
Practice and Research**

- Peter Wilkins, Douglas College
- Ernesto Priego, City, University of London
- Simon Grennan, University of Chester
- Ruhina Rana, Douglas College

**Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experiences of Dementia**

- Colleen Reid, Douglas College
- Chad Hershler, Deer Crossing the Art Farm
- Bruce Devereux, Christenson Village

The presenters will describe the genesis of their projects, their
interdisciplinary approach, and their vision for the future of dementia
research. These partnership-driven projects demonstrate the potential
for innovative College-based research.

**Thursday May 27, 2021 from 10:00am -- 11:30am
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<h5 style="padding-left:40px;">Quiero llorar mi pena y te lo digo</h5>
<h5 style="padding-left:80px;">-Federico García Lorca, &#8220;El poeta dice la verdad&#8221;, en Sonetos del amor oscuro, 1936</h5>
<h5 style="padding-left:40px;">And when that happens, I know it. A message saying so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received, severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string.</h5>
<h5 style="padding-left:80px;">-Truman Capote, &#8220;A Christmas Memory&#8221;, 1956</h5>
<h5 style="padding-left:40px;">Cada quien tiene los fantasmas que ha convocado para sí en los ámbitos construidos para ese propósito, compartiéndolos y asimilándolos.</h5>
<h5 style="padding-left:80px;">-José Antonio Rodríguez, <a href="https://www.librosmexico.mx/libros/685780" target="_blank" rel="noopener">El arte de las ilusiones. Espectáculos precinematográficos en México</a>, 2009</h5>
José Antonio murió ayer. Me llamaron a las 8:20am de la mañana hora de Londres, Inglaterra, mientras hacía el café y el té sabatinos. Son seis horas de diferencia así que serían las 2:20 de la madrugada en la ciudad de México.
En ese momento justo pensaba en él. And when that happened, I knew it.
No soy creyente ni supersticioso, pero me impactó -aunque haya razones lógicas- ese tipo de coincidencia o sincronía cósmica a través de la distancia. Como un click. Y luego un ligero pero clarísimo snap, como cuando se rompe el cordón de un papalote.*
José Antonio era, es y será mi cuñado, pareja de mi hermana Patricia y padre, con ella, de Natalia y Camilla.
Cada quien tendrá una versión diferente de su Toño. Versiones diferentes, todas amalgamadas, yuxtapuestas, sobreimpuestas, veladas y reveladas. Habría que coleccionarlas y presevarlas todas. Hay diferentes formas de hacerlo. No es posible sintetizarlo, resumirlo todo. Nadie es de nadie, somos millones de partículas de polvo estelar y como el polvo cotidiano es infinito y democrático. No hay quien se libre de él por más que limpie.
A José Antonio le decíamos Toño, pero también Toñito, Mitón, Jar, Jarcito, maestro, wey, cabrón, man, José Antonio, todos esos nombres dependiendo del contexto y la ocasión pero a veces también todos al mismo tiempo. Toño fue como un padre para mí, un amigo y un mentor, instructor y guía, patrocinador intelectual y muchas veces financiero y emocional. Fue un ancla y un pilar.
Si hoy en día puedo decir que soy un académico, un investigador, un editor y curador, es principalmente por Toño. Toño y Paty, también conocidos como Patitoño, porque eran/son un organismo simbiótico, una marca registrada, una compañía limitada, una empresa familiar, un proyecto multidisciplinario sin deadline, son co-responsables de prácticamente todo lo que puedo decir que soy hoy, y no estaría escribiendo estas líneas esta mañana de no ser por el rol que han jugado en mi vida. Los tiempos verbales se cuatrapean, porque es aún muy pronto, y porque the time is out of joint, y estamos en duelo.
Toño murió ayer. Apenas había cumplido 60 años en febrero. Suena extrañísimo pero se los digo porque, como cantó el poeta, tengo que llorar mi pena compartiéndola. La pandemia de COVID-19 significa que no pude tomar un avión para estar con mi familia y compartir con ellos aunque fuera sociodistanciadamente. No es la primera vez que pasa que no puedo estar en un funeral, y eso tiene su propia pena y su propio duelo.
Toño murió ayer, y lo que quería decir desde el principio es que una de las primeras enseñanzas que recuerdo él me dio es la importancia de la primera línea en un escrito. &#8220;Los grandes escritores saben cómo empezar un relato&#8221;, me dijo desde siempre, y era como si su criterio de selección y curaduría literarias siempre hubiese sido el de juzgar un libro por la primera línea. De ahí siguieron los ejemplos, las recomendaciones literarias que todos estos años después siguen siendo formativas y definitivas.
Por Toño -y paralelamente por mi padre y mi madre- descubrí a los grandes de la literatura mundial pero sobre todo la estadounidense del siglo XX. Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Carson McCullers, J.D Salinger, Dashiel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, pero también autores más relativamente recientes, de género, como Stephen King, Clive Barker y Peter Straub. Toño lo había leído todo en una época sin Internet y sin Wikipedia y sin Amazon, era un geógrafo de los cánones literarios, cinematográficos, artísticos en general, sin discriminación de origen nacional, idioma o género.
Toño murió ayer, y mientras hacía el café alrededor de las 8:20 de la mañana pensaba en Albert Camus y ese libro que él también me regaló, L&#8217;Etranger (El extranjero en su traducción al español), y cómo comienza: &#8220;Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.&#8221;  Pum.
Así son mis recuerdos de Toño, además de millones de otro tipo (tengo docenas de &#8216;reels&#8217; mentales de él bailando música cubana con Paty, sus hijas o mi esposa), donde él me recomendaba libros por cómo comenzaban. Todo Capote, todo John Fante. Toño tenía un gusto claro por novelas y relatos inheremente melancólicos, para él, uno no sabía el significado del blues si no se había leído bien. Yo aseguro que su gusto por la fotografía -y esto lo hablamos varias veces en apasionadas conversaciones sobre W.G. Sebald- era su preferencia por lo melancólico, por la espectralidad y fanstamagoría de la foto y del cine, por la ambición de fijar para el futuro lo finito y perecedero, no sólo como imágenes y culturas visuales sino como tecnologías, como crafts. 
Ya otros harán los recuentos de su extensa bibliografía y museografía, los premios y distinciones que recibió; sus grados y puestos académicos e institucionales. Hay ejemplos<a href="https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/fallece-jose-antonio-rodriguez-historiador-de-la-fotografia-en-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> aquí</a>, <a href="https://museoamparo.com/biografias/perfil/20/jose-antonio-rodriguez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aquí</a> y <a href="https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/adios-al-investigador-de-las-imagenes-jose-antonio-rodriguez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aquí</a> y <a href="https://www.jornada.com.mx/2021/03/14/cultura/a03a1cul#.YE4ZgmGccAp.twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aquí</a> y seguro en muchas otros documentos que no he visto todavía y en muchos por venir. Lo que no puedo dejar de decir es que Toño se perfilaba ya desde siempre como una creatura de otro tiempo y espacio, porque su trabajo de investigación, su investigación, era su vida, su pasión, y puedo verdaderamente asegurar que nunca estuvo motivado por los &#8220;puntajes&#8221; de la evaluación institucional ni la &#8220;reputación&#8221; académicas institucionales.
Antes que incluso hiciera la maestría, ya dejemos el doctorado, Toño tenía un corpus de publicaciones de impacto internacional absolutamente impresionante tanto en calidad como cantidad. Disculpen si me permito decir que ya no hay académicos así. Tampoco los que combinen investigación con práctica no sólo docente sino museográfica y de difusión pública. Antes que el &#8220;public engagement&#8221; fuera buzzword, Toño y Paty, Patitoño, ya lo habían hecho pan de cada día.
Quisiera decir más pero por ahora me obligo a terminar. Es muy difícil escribir sobre los idos sin caer en lugares comunes, ¿pero qué más lugar común para lo humano que la muerte? Habrá tiempo, esperemos, para expandir y compartir y perpetuar.
José Antonio murió ayer. Alguien irremplazable se ha ido pero sigue con nosotros en su legado no sólo profesional sino personal. Termino con esta canción del Trío Matamoros, que tanto le gustaba.
Descanza en paz, Toñito.
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##### Quiero llorar mi pena y te lo digo {#quiero-llorar-mi-pena-y-te-lo-digo style="padding-left:40px;"}

##### -Federico García Lorca, "El poeta dice la verdad", en *Sonetos del amor oscuro*, 1936 {#federico-garcía-lorca-el-poeta-dice-la-verdad-en-sonetos-del-amor-oscuro-1936 style="padding-left:80px;"}

##### And when that happens, I know it. A message saying so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received, severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string. {#and-when-that-happens-i-know-it.-a-message-saying-so-merely-confirms-a-piece-of-news-some-secret-vein-had-already-received-severing-from-me-an-irreplaceable-part-of-myself-letting-it-loose-like-a-kite-on-a-broken-string. style="padding-left:40px;"}

##### -Truman Capote, "A Christmas Memory", 1956 {#truman-capote-a-christmas-memory-1956 style="padding-left:80px;"}

##### Cada quien tiene los fantasmas que ha convocado para sí en los ámbitos construidos para ese propósito, compartiéndolos y asimilándolos. {#cada-quien-tiene-los-fantasmas-que-ha-convocado-para-sí-en-los-ámbitos-construidos-para-ese-propósito-compartiéndolos-y-asimilándolos. style="padding-left:40px;"}

##### -José Antonio Rodríguez, *[El arte de las ilusiones. Espectáculos precinematográficos en México](https://www.librosmexico.mx/libros/685780){target="_blank" rel="noopener"},* 2009 {#josé-antonio-rodríguez-el-arte-de-las-ilusiones.-espectáculos-precinematográficos-en-méxico-2009 style="padding-left:80px;"}

**J**osé Antonio murió ayer. Me llamaron a las 8:20am de la mañana hora
de Londres, Inglaterra, mientras hacía el café y el té sabatinos. Son
seis horas de diferencia así que serían las 2:20 de la madrugada en la
ciudad de México.

En ese momento justo pensaba en él. *And when that happened, I knew it*.

No soy creyente ni supersticioso, pero me impactó -aunque haya razones
lógicas- ese tipo de coincidencia o sincronía cósmica a través de la
distancia. Como un *click*. Y luego un ligero pero clarísimo *snap,*
como cuando se rompe el cordón de un papalote.\*

José Antonio era, es y será mi cuñado, pareja de mi hermana Patricia y
padre, con ella, de Natalia y Camilla.

Cada quien tendrá una versión diferente de su Toño. Versiones
diferentes, todas amalgamadas, yuxtapuestas, sobreimpuestas, veladas y
reveladas. Habría que coleccionarlas y presevarlas todas. Hay diferentes
formas de hacerlo. No es posible sintetizarlo, resumirlo todo. Nadie es
de nadie, somos millones de partículas de polvo estelar y como el polvo
cotidiano es infinito y democrático. No hay quien se libre de él por más
que limpie.

A José Antonio le decíamos Toño, pero también Toñito, Mitón, Jar,
Jarcito, maestro, wey, cabrón, man, José Antonio, todos esos nombres
dependiendo del contexto y la ocasión pero a veces también todos al
mismo tiempo. Toño fue como un padre para mí, un amigo y un mentor,
instructor y guía, patrocinador intelectual y muchas veces financiero y
emocional. Fue un ancla y un pilar.

Si hoy en día puedo decir que soy un académico, un investigador, un
editor y curador, es principalmente por Toño. Toño y Paty, también
conocidos como Patitoño, porque eran/son un organismo simbiótico, una
marca registrada, una compañía limitada, una empresa familiar, un
proyecto multidisciplinario sin deadline, son co-responsables de
prácticamente todo lo que puedo decir que soy hoy, y no estaría
escribiendo estas líneas esta mañana de no ser por el rol que han jugado
en mi vida. Los tiempos verbales se cuatrapean, porque es aún muy
pronto, y porque *the time is out of joint*, y estamos en duelo.

Toño murió ayer. Apenas había cumplido 60 años en febrero. Suena
extrañísimo pero se los digo porque, como cantó el poeta, tengo que
llorar mi pena compartiéndola. La pandemia de COVID-19 significa que no
pude tomar un avión para estar con mi familia y compartir con ellos
aunque fuera sociodistanciadamente. No es la primera vez que pasa que no
puedo estar en un funeral, y eso tiene su propia pena y su propio duelo.

Toño murió ayer, y lo que quería decir desde el principio es que una de
las primeras enseñanzas que recuerdo él me dio es la importancia de la
primera línea en un escrito. "Los grandes escritores saben cómo empezar
un relato", me dijo desde siempre, y era como si su criterio de
selección y curaduría literarias siempre hubiese sido el de juzgar un
libro por la primera línea. De ahí siguieron los ejemplos, las
recomendaciones literarias que todos estos años después siguen siendo
formativas y definitivas.

Por Toño -y paralelamente por mi padre y mi madre- descubrí a los
grandes de la literatura mundial pero sobre todo la estadounidense del
siglo XX. Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald,
Carson McCullers, J.D Salinger, Dashiel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, pero
también autores más relativamente recientes, de género, como Stephen
King, Clive Barker y Peter Straub. Toño lo había leído todo en una época
sin Internet y sin Wikipedia y sin Amazon, era un geógrafo de los
cánones literarios, cinematográficos, artísticos en general, sin
discriminación de origen nacional, idioma o género.

Toño murió ayer, y mientras hacía el café alrededor de las 8:20 de la
mañana pensaba en Albert Camus y ese libro que él también me regaló,
*L'Etranger* (El extranjero en su traducción al español), y cómo
comienza: "[Aujourd'hui]{.sc}, maman est morte."*  Pum*.

Así son mis recuerdos de Toño, además de millones de otro tipo (tengo
docenas de 'reels' mentales de él bailando música cubana con Paty, sus
hijas o mi esposa), donde él me recomendaba libros por cómo comenzaban.
Todo Capote, todo John Fante. Toño tenía un gusto claro por novelas y
relatos inheremente melancólicos, para él, uno no sabía el significado
del blues si no se había leído bien. Yo aseguro que su gusto por la
fotografía -y esto lo hablamos varias veces en apasionadas
conversaciones sobre W.G. Sebald- era su preferencia por lo melancólico,
por la espectralidad y fanstamagoría de la foto y del cine, por la
ambición de fijar para el futuro lo finito y perecedero, no sólo como
imágenes y culturas visuales sino como tecnologías, como* crafts.*

Ya otros harán los recuentos de su extensa bibliografía y museografía,
los premios y distinciones que recibió; sus grados y puestos académicos
e institucionales. Hay ejemplos
[aquí](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/fallece-jose-antonio-rodriguez-historiador-de-la-fotografia-en-mexico){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"},
[aquí](https://museoamparo.com/biografias/perfil/20/jose-antonio-rodriguez){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"} y
[aquí](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/adios-al-investigador-de-las-imagenes-jose-antonio-rodriguez){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"} y
[aquí](https://www.jornada.com.mx/2021/03/14/cultura/a03a1cul#.YE4ZgmGccAp.twitter){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"} y seguro en muchas otros documentos que no he visto
todavía y en muchos por venir. Lo que no puedo dejar de decir es que
Toño se perfilaba ya desde siempre como una creatura de otro tiempo y
espacio, porque su trabajo de investigación, su investigación, era su
vida, su pasión, y puedo verdaderamente asegurar que nunca estuvo
motivado por los "puntajes" de la evaluación institucional ni la
"reputación" académicas institucionales.

Antes que incluso hiciera la maestría, ya dejemos el doctorado, Toño
tenía un corpus de publicaciones de impacto internacional absolutamente
impresionante tanto en calidad como cantidad. Disculpen si me permito
decir que ya no hay académicos así. Tampoco los que combinen
investigación con práctica no sólo docente sino museográfica y de
difusión pública. Antes que el "public engagement" fuera buzzword, Toño
y Paty, Patitoño, ya lo habían hecho pan de cada día.

Quisiera decir más pero por ahora me obligo a terminar. Es muy difícil
escribir sobre los idos sin caer en lugares comunes, ¿pero qué más lugar
común para lo humano que la muerte? Habrá tiempo, esperemos, para
expandir y compartir y perpetuar.

José Antonio murió ayer. Alguien irremplazable se ha ido pero sigue con
nosotros en su legado no sólo profesional sino personal. Termino con
esta canción del Trío Matamoros, que tanto le gustaba.

Descanza en paz, Toñito.

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\*En inglés, caigo en cuenta después, el término onomatopéyico *snap*
también denota una foto o el acto de tomar una fotografía.

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I am very pleased to share we have launched the 11th volume of<a href="https://www.comicsgrid.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship</a>  with the following two articles:
Marini A., (2021) “Discursive (Re)Contruction of Mexican American Identity in J. Gonzo&#8217;s La Mano del Destino”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 11(1). doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.211" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.211</a>
Commins J., (2021) “Composing the Handmaid: From Graphic Novel to Protest Icon”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 11(1). doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.214" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.214</a>
These are the first wo articles we publish since we migrated from <a href="https://www.ubiquitypress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ubiquity Press</a> to <a href="https://janeway.systems/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Janeway Systems. </a>
Janeway is a digital platform for publishing scholarly articles online, developed by Professor Martin Eve, Mauro Sanchez and Andy Byers at the Centre for Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London, and the Open Library of Humanities, UK.  It is used by the Open Library of Humanities,  Iowa State Digital Press, Huddersfield University Press, ID Pro, UCL Press, Michigan Publishing, the University of Essex and the University of West London and will soon be in use by California Digital Library to support preprints projects.
We hope you like the new look of the journal. Thank you Andy, Mauro, Martin, Rose, Paula and everyone at OLH.
I remain immensely grateful to everyone at Ubiquity Press for 7 years of incredible support- the journal would not be what it is now without them.
If you like the work that the Open Library of Humanities is doing, please consider asking your institution to support us financially. We cannot operate without our library members. More details for libraries can be found here: <a href="https://www.openlibhums.org/plugins/supporters/signup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.openlibhums.org/plugins/supporters/signup/</a>.

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**I** am very pleased to share we have launched the 11th volume of *[The
Comics Grid: Journal of Comics
Scholarship](https://www.comicsgrid.com/){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"} * with the following two articles:

**Marini A., (2021) "Discursive (Re)Contruction of Mexican American
Identity in J. Gonzo's La Mano del Destino", *The Comics Grid: Journal
of Comics Scholarship* 11(1). doi:
[https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.211](https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.211){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"}**

**Commins J., (2021) "Composing the Handmaid: From Graphic Novel to
Protest Icon", *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship* 11(1).
doi:**
[**https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.214**](https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.214){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"}

These are the first wo articles we publish since we migrated from
[Ubiquity Press](https://www.ubiquitypress.com/){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"} to [Janeway
Systems. ](https://janeway.systems/#){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}

Janeway is a digital platform for publishing scholarly articles online,
developed by Professor Martin Eve, Mauro Sanchez and Andy Byers at the
Centre for Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London,
and the Open Library of Humanities, UK.  It is used by the Open Library
of Humanities,  Iowa State Digital Press, Huddersfield University Press,
ID Pro, UCL Press, Michigan Publishing, the University of Essex and the
University of West London and will soon be in use by California Digital
Library to support preprints projects.

We hope you like the new look of the journal. Thank you Andy, Mauro,
Martin, Rose, Paula and everyone at OLH.

I remain immensely grateful to everyone at Ubiquity Press for 7 years of
incredible support- the journal would not be what it is now without
them.

If you like the work that the Open Library of Humanities is doing,
please consider asking your institution to support us financially. We
cannot operate without our library members. More details for libraries
can be found here:
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We have launched the 11th volume of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship with two new articles.


Launching The Comics Grid’s Volume 11- Powered by Janeway Systems!

<a href="https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/free-speech-champion.jpg"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="8294" data-permalink="http://ernestopriego.com/2021/02/16/freedom-of-speech-trading-cards/free-speech-champion/" data-orig-file="https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/free-speech-champion.jpg" data-orig-size="1750,1238" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="free speech champion" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/free-speech-champion.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/free-speech-champion.jpg?w=1024" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-8294" src="https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/free-speech-champion.jpg?w=656" alt="free speech chamption trading card " width="656" height="464" srcset="https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/free-speech-champion.jpg?w=656 656w, https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/free-speech-champion.jpg?w=1312 1312w, https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/free-speech-champion.jpg?w=150 150w, https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/free-speech-champion.jpg?w=300 300w, https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/free-speech-champion.jpg?w=768 768w, https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/free-speech-champion.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px" /></a>
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Collect them all!
(<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/feb/16/proposed-free-speech-law-will-make-english-universities-liable-for-breaches" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Context</a>) (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/landmark-proposals-to-strengthen-free-speech-at-universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gov press release</a>)

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Collect them all!

([Context](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/feb/16/proposed-free-speech-law-will-make-english-universities-liable-for-breaches){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"}) ([Gov press
release](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/landmark-proposals-to-strengthen-free-speech-at-universities){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"})

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Based on <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Vasily_Perov_-_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%A4.%D0%9C.%D0%94%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a portrait</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a> (1821-1881) by Vasili Perov, 1872, Public Domain., via Wikimedia Commons.
A quick Friday reflection. Creativity, agency, time and space help us stay focused. We all need variety to maintain physical and mental health. Every action has an effect. Pauses can help us and others catch up- too many immediate responses disallow time and space for meaningful work. We must try to allow some air in. Patience, tolerance, empathy, time and space so that the work that needs doing does get done well.

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rel="noopener"} of [Fyodor
Dostoevsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"} (1821-1881) by Vasili Perov, 1872, Public Domain., via
Wikimedia Commons.

A quick Friday reflection. Creativity, agency, time and space help us
stay focused. We all need variety to maintain physical and mental
health. Every action has an effect. Pauses can help us and others catch
up- too many immediate responses disallow time and space for meaningful
work. We must try to allow some air in. Patience, tolerance, empathy,
time and space so that the work that needs doing does get done well.

Out of Office Trading Card

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*Your déjà vu is justified. Cfr. The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Square One (but Much Worse), <a href="https://epriego.blog/2021/01/05/the-lockdown-chronicles-year-2-square-one/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tuesday 5 January 2021</a>. ** That’s a lot of text for a single speech balloon! Sorry. —Ed.
This strip reuses text and images from Getty Images and BBC News, “Wuhan lockdown: A year of China&#8217;s fight against the Covid pandemic”, available at <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55628488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55628488</a>, and from the Guardian, “UK Covid live: Boris Johnson to hold news briefing after 1,401 new deaths reported” available at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/p/g73vv/stw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.theguardian.com/p/g73vv/stw</a>. See also <a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk</a>.
This comic strip was published on Friday 22 January 2021 PM GMT. Excepting any third-party material this comic strip is licensed CC-BY-NC-SA.
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\*Your déjà vu is justified. Cfr. The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Square
One (but Much Worse), [Tuesday 5 January
2021](https://epriego.blog/2021/01/05/the-lockdown-chronicles-year-2-square-one/){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"}. \*\* That's a lot of text for a single speech balloon!
Sorry. ---Ed.

This strip reuses text and images from Getty Images and BBC News, "Wuhan
lockdown: A year of China's fight against the Covid pandemic", available
at
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55628488](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55628488){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"}, and from the Guardian, "UK Covid live: Boris Johnson to
hold news briefing after 1,401 new deaths reported" available at
[https://www.theguardian.com/p/g73vv/stw](https://www.theguardian.com/p/g73vv/stw){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"}. See also
[https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"}.

This comic strip was published on Friday 22 January 2021 PM GMT.
Excepting any third-party material this comic strip is licensed
CC-BY-NC-SA.

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