Items where Author is "Gibson, Mel"

Article

Gibson, Mel (2023) ‘...sure to delight every ballet fan.’ Consuming ballet culture through girls’ periodical Girl, 1952 to 1960. Film, Fashion & Consumption, 12 (1). pp. 11-32. ISSN 2044-2823

Hoult, Elizabeth and Gibson, Mel (2023) The Education and Exclusion of Heathcliff: a lesson on ‘looked after’ and ‘previously looked after’ children in schools from nineteenth century literature. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. ISSN 1468-1366 (In Press)

Gibson, Mel (2020) Rising from the ashes: making spaces for new children’s comics cultures in Britain in the 21st century. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 11 (2). pp. 212-225. ISSN 2150-4857

Gibson, Mel (2020) Queer Girlhoods in Contemporary Comics: Disrupting Normative Notions. Girlhood Studies, 13 (1). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1938-8209

Gibson, Mel (2019) Comics, childhood and memory: An autobiographical narrative (Part 3). Confessions of an Aca-Fan.

Gibson, Mel (2019) Comics, childhood and memory: An autobiographical narrative (Part 2). Confessions of an Aca-Fan.

Gibson, Mel (2019) Comics, childhood and memory: An autobiographical narrative (Part 1). Confessions of an Aca-Fan.

Gibson, Mel (2019) Obituary of Nickianne Moody. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 10 (3). p. 390. ISSN 2150-4857

Gibson, Mel (2019) Memories of a medium: Comics, materiality, object elicitation and reading autobiographies. Participations, 16 (1). pp. 605-621. ISSN 1749-8716

Gibson, Mel (2018) ‘Who’s the girl with the kissin’ lips?’ Constructions of class, popular culture and agentic girlhood in Girl, Princess, Jackie and Bunty in the 1960s. Film, Fashion & Consumption, 7 (2). pp. 131-146. ISSN 2044-2823

Gibson, Mel (2018) Let’s hear it for the girls! Representations of girlhood, feminism and activism in comics and graphic novels. MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, 1 (1).

Gibson, Mel, Nabizadeh, Golnar and Sambell, Kay (2014) Watch this space: childhood, picturebooks and comics [Editorial]. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 5 (3). pp. 241-244. ISSN 2150-4857

Weiner, Robert and Gibson, Mel (2011) Audiences and Readership. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2 (2). pp. 109-207. ISSN 2150-4857

Coogan, Peter, Gibson, Mel, Huxley, David, Ormrod, Joan and Royal, Derek (2011) Superheroes and Gender. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2 (1). pp. 1-107. ISSN 2150-4857

Gibson, Mel (2010) What Bunty did next: exploring some of the ways in which the British girls' comic protagonists were revisited and revised in late twentieth-century comics and graphic novels. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, 1 (2). pp. 121-135. ISSN 2150-4857

Gibson, Mel (2010) We don’t need just the DFC, we needs lots of comics, and what’s more, we can make them. Let’s get to it! Inis Magazine (33). pp. 19-23.

Gibson, Mel (2010) Dr Peter Venkman: 'Scuse me Egon? You said crossing the streams was bad!...' Dr Ray Stanz: 'Cross the streams...': Comics, manga, graphic novels and the challenge and excitement of cross-curricular work (with apologies to Ghostbusters [1984]). NATE Classroom, 10. pp. 10-12. ISSN 1753-6162

Carey, Anna, Gibson, Mel and Lyons, Cliodhna (2010) Through the looking glass: Skim by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. INIS: The Magazine of Children's Books Ireland, 31. pp. 26-28.

Gibson, Mel (2009) The war of the worlds? - Classics, comics and manga - ways of thinking about adaptations, with some suggestions about using them in classrooms. NATE Classroom, 9. pp. 11-13. ISSN 1753-6162

Gibson, Mel (2008) From 'Susan of St. Brides' to 'Heartbreak Hospital': nurses and nursing in the girls' comic from the 1950s to the 1980s. The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies, 5 (2). pp. 104-126. ISSN 1743-0526

Gibson, Mel (2008) '"So what is this mango, anyway?" understanding manga, comics and graphic novels (Primary and Secondary'. NATE Classroom, 5. pp. 8-10. ISSN 1753-6162

Gibson, Mel (2008) Nobody, somebody, everybody: ballet, girlhood, class, femininity and comics in 1950s Britain. Girlhood Studies, 1 (2). pp. 108-128. ISSN 1938-8209

Gibson, Mel (2008) What you read and where you read it, how you keep it: Children, comics and historical cultural practice. Popular Narrative Media, 1 (2). pp. 151-167. ISSN 1754-3819

Book Section

Gibson, Mel (2023) ‘It’s the girl!’: Comics, Professional Identity, Affection, Nostalgia and Embarrassment. In: Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice Comics Picturing Girlhood. Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels (11). Leuven University Press, Leuven, pp. 29-46. ISBN 9789462703612, 9789461664983, 9789462700307, 9789461664976

Gibson, Mel (2023) Librarians, Agency, Young People, and Comics: Graphic Account and the Development of Graphic Novel Collections in Libraries in Britain in the 1990s. In: Comics and Agency. Comics Studies . De Gruyter, pp. 201-216. ISBN 9783110754407, 9783110754483

Gibson, Mel (2021) ‘One upon a time, there was a very bad rat…’: constructions of childhood, children, animals and comics. In: Strong Bonds: Child-Animal Relationships in Comics. Collection ACME (6). University of Liege, Liege, pp. 149-163. ISBN 9782875622594

Gibson, Mel (2018) ‘Yeah. I think there still is hope’. Ms Marvel: youth, ethnicity, faith, feminism and fandom. In: Gender and the Superhero Narrative. University Press of Mississippi, Mississippi, USA, pp. 23-44. ISBN 9781496818805

Gibson, Mel (2018) It's all come flooding back: Memories of childhood comics. In: Comics Memory: Archives and Styles. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 37-56. ISBN 9783319917450, 9783319917467

Gibson, Mel (2018) ‘There is no race so wretched that there is not something out there that cares for them’: Multiculturalism, understanding, empathy and prejudice in Discworld. In: Terry Pratchett’s Narrative Worlds: From Giant Turtles to Small Gods. Critical Approaches to Children's Literature . Palgrave, pp. 57-72. ISBN 978-3-319-67297-7

Gibson, Mel (2016) Comics and Gender. In: The Routledge Companion to Comics. Routledge, pp. 285-293. ISBN 9780415729000

Gibson, Mel (2014) “Badgers? We don’t need no steenkin’ Badgers!” Talbot’s Grandville, Anthropomorphism and Multiculturalism. In: Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels. Taylor & Francis, New York, pp. 83-95. ISBN 9781138025158, 9781315775340

Gibson, Mel (2014) Who does she think she is? Female comic-book characters, second-wave feminism, and feminist film theory. In: Superheroes and Identities. Taylor & Francis, pp. 135-146. ISBN 9780415722001

Gibson, Mel (2013) ‘Something for the Girls? Constructions of Class and Girlhood in Girl, Princess and Bunty’. In: The Final Chapters: Concluding Papers of the Journal of Children's Literature Studies. Wizard's Tower Press, Trowbridge, UK, pp. 182-198. ISBN 9781908039309

Gibson, Mel (2013) Transformation, text and genre in The Birdman. In: Melvin Burgess. New Casebook . Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, pp. 116-134. ISBN 978-1137262790

Gibson, Mel (2012) Developing a core library collection for teenagers and young adults – selecting materials – comics, graphic novels and manga resources. In: Library Services for Children and Young Adults: Challenges and opportunities in the digital age. Facet Publishing, London. ISBN 978-1856047128

Gibson, Mel (2012) Sick Fictions: contamination, infection and addiction in accounts of young people’s reading of comics. In: Cultures of addiction. Cambria Press, New York, USA. ISBN 978-1604977998

Gibson, Mel (2011) Cultural Studies Approaches to Audience. In: Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods. Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0415885553

Gibson, Mel (2010) Changing Perceptions of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels in Britain. In: Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People. Pied Piper Publishing Ltd, Birmingham. ISBN 978-0954638498

Gibson, Mel (2010) What Bunty really did! Revisiting the protagonist of comics for girls. In: Scottish Comics: a celebration. Merchiston Publishing, Edinburgh, pp. 29-39. ISBN 978-0955356100

Sambell, Kay and Gibson, Mel (2010) The medium became the message: the MEDAL project as learning space. In: FDTL voices: drawing from learning and teaching projects. Higher Education Academy, York, pp. 100-107. ISBN 978-1907207136

Gibson, Mel (2008) The powerful world of graphic texts. In: Understanding children's books: a guide for educational professionals. Sage, London, pp. 109-118. ISBN 978-1847870315

Conference or Workshop Item

Rowland, Duncan, Porter, Dan, Gibson, Mel, Walker, Kevin, Underwood, Joshua, Luckin, Rose, Smith, Hilary, Fitzpatrick, Geraldine, Good, Judith, Walker, Brendan, Chamberlain, Alan, Rennick Egglestone, Stefan, Marshall, Joe, Schnädelbach, Holger and Benford, Steve (2010) Sequential art for science and CHI. In: CHI 2010 (ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), 10-15 April 2010, Atlanta, Georgia.

Gibson, Mel and Graham, Linda (2008) Signs of youth: new creative visual methods. In: Twenty First Century Teenager: Media Representation, Theory and Policy, 10 July - 12 July 2008, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds.

McDowell, Liz, Gibson, Mel, Penlington, Roger, Robinson, Jon, Sambell, Kay and Smailes, Joanne (2006) Putting assessment for learning into practice. In: Higher Education Academy Annual Conference, 3 July - 5 July 2006, Nottingham.

Book

Gibson, Mel (2015) Remembered Reading: Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood. Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels, 3 . Leuven University Press. ISBN 9789462700307

Sambell, Kay, Gibson, Mel and Miller, Sue (2010) Studying childhood and early childhood: a guide for students [2nd edition]. SAGE study skills . Sage, London. ISBN 184920134X

Broadcast

Gibson, Mel (2009) Experimenting with Comics: The use of comics in promoting reading and literacy. [Broadcast]

Other

Gibson, Mel (2007) Comics Britannia. BBC.