Danny Graydon

It’s my great pleasure to announce that I will working with Inter-Disciplinary.net to lead an academic conference on The Superhero to be held in Oxford this September. I presented, with my colleague Barbara Brownie, my first academic paper – entitled “Negotiating Ordinariness and Otherness: Superman, Clark Kent and the Superhero Masquerade“ – at an I-D.net conference devoted […]

Ricky Rouse? Oh, I know the guy. Hair-trigger temper and a penchant for finding trouble. In fact, I have known about the aimless, ex-soldier Mr. Rouse and his strangely-familiar alter-ego since he was naught but a glint in his creator Jorg Tittel’s eye, the subject of many an excitable phone conversation. But look at Ricky now. All […]

 Last week at the New York Comic-Con, the 75th anniversary of Superman was commemorated with the release of a fantastic animated sequence that soared through the archetypal superhero’s illustrious seven-and-a-half decades in just two minutes, from Joe Schuster’s first sketch of the character right through to Henry Cavill’s turn in Man of Steel earlier this […]

At the end of last month, my efforts in Academia took a pleasing development when I delivered my first ever piece of academic research – suitably, on Superman –  at the 2nd Global Conference on The Graphic Novel. Organised by Inter-Disciplinary.net and held at the exceedingly convivial location of Mansfield College in Oxford, my UH […]

Released in late 2010, Taschen’s imperious 75 YEARS OF DC COMICS: THE ART OF MODERN MYTHMAKING made for a stunning addition to my Comics Reference library. Bearing the sheer authority of author Paul Levitz, whose entire professional life had been devoted to the illustrious comics publisher, the books’ 750 pages and over 2000 images makes it […]

It’s been three years since I first I first entered the world of Academia as a lecturer for the University of Hertfordshire and, I have been progressively embracing a key concern of career academics: Research. Broadly speaking, I would like to pursue a PhD in the future, but, if my greatly desired plan of achieving a […]

Longtime professional acquaintance and friend Tim Pilcher is a kindred spirit in as much as Comics have defined his entire life. “Comics were undoubtedly in my blood from day one.” he proclaims, “I had ‘four colour funnies’ running through my veins before I’d even heard the expression. Cut me and I bled cyan, magenta, yellow […]

Next month will see the publication of my latest book , ANGRY BIRDS: HATCHING A UNIVERSE, the first about the phenomenally successful mobile gaming  – and now firmly multi-media – franchise, created by Finland’s Rovio Entertainment. Written late last year for Insight Editions and in close collaboration with Rovio, Hatching A Universe was an interesting project […]

The official James Bond website at 007.com has broken the tremendously exciting news that, in October, German art publisher Taschen are publishing a lavish and officially-endorsed celebration/exploration of 50 years of the Bond film franchise, THE JAMES BOND ARCHIVES – which means I can now officially reveal that I was part of the team of writers who […]

A friend directed me to this fascinating and very obscure piece of Batman media from 1973 – which I’d never seen before –  in which Batman, Robin and Batgirl from the Sixties TV show highlight a new Federal law regarding equal pay for women. Now, I’m pretty certain that’s not Adam West – althought whoever […]