Simon Grennan

Dr Simon Grennan is an awarded scholar of visual narrative and graphic novelist. He is Professor of Art and Design and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation at the University of Chester, UK. Dr Grennan is author of Thinking about Comics (Bloomsbury 2026), Thinking about Drawing (Bloomsbury 2022), A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave 2017), Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval (Book Works 2018) and Dispossession (Cape, 2015, one of The Guardian Books of the Year 2015). He is co-author and editor of Island Tales: new creative interpretations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific fiction (Bess 2026), Key Terms in Comics Studies (Palgrave 2022) and co-author of Marie Duval, Maverick Victorian cartoonist (MUP 2020), Marie Duval (Myriad 2018) and The Marie Duval Archive (www.marieduval.org). Since 1990, he has been half of international artists team Grennan & Sperandio, producer of over forty comics and books. He is Principal Investigator for the research project Marie Duval presents Ally Sloper: the female cartoonist and popular theatre in London 1869-85 (2014–16) and Co-investigator of Remediating Stevenson: Decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Fiction through Graphic Adaptation, Arts Education and Community Engagement (2022–25), both funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK. www.simongrennan.com