Dr John Miers
Contact
- Email: j.miers@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Design
- Department: Department of Illustration Animation
About
I am a cartoonist, illustrator, teacher and researcher. My primary interest is in narrative illustration, particularly sequential forms such as comics. My comics work is represented in Tate Publishing's survey of the artform Comics Art, and I have been invited to present it at events across the UK and in Amsterdam and Chicago. My wider practice spans a variety of contexts including branding and promotional design and illustration in the editorial and publishing sectors, including work for The Guardian, Reader's Digest, The Idler, Foyles, Paragraph Publishing and Centaur Media.
My research has been published in British and European peer-reviewed journals and volumes. I am an active member of the comics studies community. I sit on the organising committee of the Transitions symposium (Birkbeck, University of London) and am a founder member of the UAL Comics Research Hub (CorH!).
In addition to my primary role as senior lecturer in illustration at KSA, I am a visiting lecturer at University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art, and external examiner for BA Cartoon and Comic Art at Staffordshire University and BA Comics and Graphic Novels at Teesside University
With Maggie Gray and Nick White, I co-run the Kingston School of Art Comic Club.
Academic responsibilities
Senior Lecturer in Illustration and Critical and Historical Studies
Qualifications
- 2011-2018: PhD Graphic Communication, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
- 2003-4: Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
- 1997-2001: BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
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