Barbara Postema
@barpos.bsky.social
Lecturer at the University of Groningen. Research on comics and graphic narrative, narrative theory, wordless comics. she/her
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If you find yourself in possession of this painting you can contact me at tomfowlerart at gmail dot com and I will facilitate its return, no questions asked.
Art theft alert!
This @tomfowler.bsky.social Batman original piece has been hanging in the Kingston Nexus for a decade!
It was recently stolen.
If you see or know anything about it, please let us know.
If you in possession, please return it.
This @tomfowler.bsky.social Batman original piece has been hanging in the Kingston Nexus for a decade!
It was recently stolen.
If you see or know anything about it, please let us know.
If you in possession, please return it.
April 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If you find yourself in possession of this painting you can contact me at tomfowlerart at gmail dot com and I will facilitate its return, no questions asked.
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One of my cool friends is teaching this course.
Please spread the word - it's going to be amazing!
I wish I could go myself, but alas. No trip to CAL for me.
www.calrbs.org/the-social-a...
#comics
Please spread the word - it's going to be amazing!
I wish I could go myself, but alas. No trip to CAL for me.
www.calrbs.org/the-social-a...
#comics
April 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
One of my cool friends is teaching this course.
Please spread the word - it's going to be amazing!
I wish I could go myself, but alas. No trip to CAL for me.
www.calrbs.org/the-social-a...
#comics
Please spread the word - it's going to be amazing!
I wish I could go myself, but alas. No trip to CAL for me.
www.calrbs.org/the-social-a...
#comics
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Attention, poets! We’re opening for original poems on April 1 (seriously) and will stay open for at least a month. smallwondersmag.com/submissions/
Submission Guidelines - Small Wonders
Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.
smallwondersmag.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Attention, poets! We’re opening for original poems on April 1 (seriously) and will stay open for at least a month. smallwondersmag.com/submissions/
Vandaag Amsterdam! Morgen neemt Groningen het stokje over!!
March 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Vandaag Amsterdam! Morgen neemt Groningen het stokje over!!
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If you don't agree, swiftly launch yourself into the sun 😘
March 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If you don't agree, swiftly launch yourself into the sun 😘
Good grief, why are people so reluctant to use the word “my”? “My sister’s and I’s room”? *shudder* Nothing wrong with “my sister’s and my”.
(Ranting at trivia to avoid larger issues)
(Ranting at trivia to avoid larger issues)
February 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Good grief, why are people so reluctant to use the word “my”? “My sister’s and I’s room”? *shudder* Nothing wrong with “my sister’s and my”.
(Ranting at trivia to avoid larger issues)
(Ranting at trivia to avoid larger issues)
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A Movable Book a Day: THE JOLLY JUMP-UPS AND THEIR NEW HOUSE (1939), paper engineer Geraldine Clyne. #movableadayin2025 #movablebooks #jollyjumpups #geraldineclyne
January 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A Movable Book a Day: THE JOLLY JUMP-UPS AND THEIR NEW HOUSE (1939), paper engineer Geraldine Clyne. #movableadayin2025 #movablebooks #jollyjumpups #geraldineclyne
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FWIW: I genuinely & firmly believe that Palestine is one of very few instances where Posting About It actually makes a material difference (because of Palestine Exception bullshit, ironclad media silencing of Palestinian voices, & the COST of speaking up), so if you haven't? Maybe consider it?
Just one of several moments in the last 14 months where I wonder whether this is when ostensibly progressive people in my life confront their indoctrination & experience the soul-shaking horror of their own mealy-mouthed complicity
Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
www.amnesty.org
December 5, 2024 at 4:45 PM
FWIW: I genuinely & firmly believe that Palestine is one of very few instances where Posting About It actually makes a material difference (because of Palestine Exception bullshit, ironclad media silencing of Palestinian voices, & the COST of speaking up), so if you haven't? Maybe consider it?
Heading back to Groningen after joining 20,000 other protesters in The Hague to call on the government to call off the devastating cuts to higher education. Doe het niet! #WOinActie @NOS
November 25, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Heading back to Groningen after joining 20,000 other protesters in The Hague to call on the government to call off the devastating cuts to higher education. Doe het niet! #WOinActie @NOS
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In case there was any doubt at all
November 20, 2024 at 2:23 PM
In case there was any doubt at all
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We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!
It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...
>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...
🧵 below
It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...
>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...
🧵 below
The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
blogs.york.ac.uk
November 13, 2024 at 12:17 PM
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!
It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...
>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...
🧵 below
It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...
>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...
🧵 below
I got to moderate a panel on the world of comics at #Glasgow2024. Thanks for sharing pictures!
Today at Glasgow Worldcon, with @corabuhlert.bsky.social and @barpos.bsky.social we shared our love for comics as a storytelling form that can cross every border
August 11, 2024 at 1:35 PM
I got to moderate a panel on the world of comics at #Glasgow2024. Thanks for sharing pictures!
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Bees are coming out of winter hibernation all across the Northern hemisphere. Which ones are visiting YOUR backyard?
March 5, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Bees are coming out of winter hibernation all across the Northern hemisphere. Which ones are visiting YOUR backyard?
It’s me! Talking about an Excalibur comic!!
Want more @barpos.bsky.social?? Run, don't walk, to read or revisit her fabulous book "Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments"!
press.rit.edu/978193336095...
press.rit.edu/978193336095...
Narrative Structure in Comics
In Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments, Barbara Postema seeks to explain how comics communicate and create meaning, with an emphasis on ...
press.rit.edu
October 1, 2023 at 3:16 PM
It’s me! Talking about an Excalibur comic!!
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So looking forward to this pop-up book! It’s on my Christmas list 🎄
Here’s the official catalog solicitation for “my” HERE COMES CHARLIE BROWN! A PEANUTS POP-UP in the Spring 2024 ABRAMS Catalog! (Collaborating “with” Charles M. Schulz? 10 year-old Gene is hyperventilating in his closet “office”)
September 1, 2023 at 1:57 PM
So looking forward to this pop-up book! It’s on my Christmas list 🎄