Here are links to a selection of the archaeological comics I’ve published as comic books, weekly strips and museum panels:
- Good Grasshopper and Bad Grasshopper. A comic book version of a traditional story from Palau, Micronesia. Produced for National Archaeology Day, 2020 (Palauan language version).
- The Grid. First issue of an archaeological comics anthology, distributed at the 2019 Theoretical Archaeology Group conference.
- Archaeology on Yap 2018. Comic book about an archaeological research project on the island of Yap, Micronesia.
- Journeys To Complete The Work. A comic book about NAGPRA: the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and how it affects communities and museums in the USA.
- Archaeometallurgy. Comic book for the Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia, about analysis of metals.
- Radiocarbon Dating. Comic book for the Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia, about carbon-14 dating.
- Oswestry Heritage Comics II. A 52-week series of short strips about local history, archaeology and heritage published in the Oswestry and Borderlands Advertizer, June 2017 – June 2018.
- Oswestry Heritage Comics I. A 13-week series of short strips about local history, archaeology and heritage published in the Oswestry and Borderlands Advertizer, July-October 2016.
- Palau 2015. Comic journal of the 2015 University of Oregon excavations in the islands of Palau, Micronesia (reprinted by the Gov’t of Palau, 2020).
- The Romans and the River. Interpretation panel/comic for the Museum of London, 2014.
- Archaeology in the Caribbean/Archaeology on Carriacou. Originally produced 2010, revised for display in Carriacou Tourism Office, 2014.
- Archaeology on Mustique. Mustique Island Archaeology Project/The Mustique Company, 2014.
- Middleport Pottery. Princes Regeneration Trust/MB Heritage Management, 2014.
- Comics about the sites of Bryn Celli Ddu, Llyn Cerrig Bach and Barclodiad y Gawres on Anglesey (English editions only of Welsh/English comics). CADW/MB Heritage Management, 2013.
- The Truth Is. 2013.
- Çatalhöyük Nedir? Çatalhöyük Research Project, 2005.
A select biography of some of the papers I’ve written for recent archaeological publications, journals and related websites about the use of comics in archaeology, local history and heritage:
- Envisioning Wat’s Dyke, with Howard Williams in Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands. Archaeopress, 2020.
- Telling the Story of Old Oswestry in Cartoons and Comics, published in Old Oswestry Hillfort and its Landscape: Ancient past, uncertain future, ed. T. Malim and G. Nash. Archaeopress, 2020.
- Making Earthworks Visible: The example of the Oswestry Heritage Comics, published in Offa’s Dyke Journal, Vol. I. 2019.
- Comics, Creativity and Community, published in Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement, ed. Howard Williams. Archaeopress, 2019.
- Comics, Narrative and the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from the Journal of the Friends of the American School of Oriental Research. October 2018.
- Ceramics, Polity and Comics: Visually Re-presenting Formal Archaeological Publication, in the journal Advances in Archaeological Practice. February 2015.
- The Sequential Art of the Past. Comics Forum blog post, 2012)
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