Conference Presentations
“Blood on the Borders: Mixing the Wild West with Political Unrest in American Comics from the 1960s and 1970s.” Comics Forum (Leeds, November 2024).
“Cowboys, Comic Books, and the Cold War: Imperial Visions in the Post-War American Western.” Comics|Histories (Online event, July 2021).
“Cowboys, Crooks and Comic Books: Imperial Visions in the Cold War Western Comic.” 55th Western Literature Association Conference – Graphic Wests (San Diego, October 2020).
“Post Apocalyptic Frontiers: 2000AD, Judge Dredd and the American Western.” The Eleventh International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (Manchester Metropolitan University, June 2019).
“Post-Western Frontiers: Investigating the Inheritance of the Mythic West in Late-Twentieth Century British Comics.” Comics Forum 10 – Progress: A Decade of Comics Scholarship (Leeds Central Library, September 2018).
“Walking on the Bones of the Dead: Preacher and the Post-Western.” The Ninth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (Bournemouth University, June 2018).
“Cowboys and Cola: Lucky Luke, Coca-Cola, and the Problem with America in Post-War Europe.” Comics and Nation Conference (Bangor University, July 2017).
“Imagining the American West before the ‘Western’: Defining a Genre in Nineteenth-Century Cartoons and Pictorial Reportage.” Graphic Gothic – The International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (Manchester Metropolitan University, July 2016).
“Lucky Luke, Coca-Cola, and the Dilemma with America in Post-War Europe.” Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes dessinées and Comics (University of London Institute, Paris, June 2015).
“Subverting the West: Transforming the Frontier in Western Comics.” The Fifth International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference (The British Library, London, July 2014).
“Comics Books and Spaghetti Westerns.” The Lost Subject (University of Dundee, May 2013).
“Blueberry and the Impact of the Spaghetti Western on the Comic Book Frontier.” Spaghetti Westerns in Transit: An International Film Conference on Transculturation and Liminality (Luton, April 2013).
“Traversing the Western: From Dime Novel to Comic Book.” Materiality and Virtuality: A Conference on Comics, Comics Forum (Leeds, November 2011).
“The Impact of Sergio Leone on Min-Woo Hyung’s Priest.” Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes dessinées and Comics (Manchester Metropolitan University, July 2011).
“Repatriating ‘Dead Ground’: Alan Moore’s Psychogeographic tour in From Hell.” Myths, Legends, and Folklore Conference (Cardiff University, May 2011).
“Mirroring the Cinematic: Reading Min-Woo Hyung’s Priest as Spaghetti Western film.” Annual Student Conference (Manchester, January 2011).
Invited Talks and Guest Appearances
Guest on Writing Westward, BYU Redd Center (Podcast, May 2025).
Guest on Read Beat (…and repeat) (Podcast, March 2025).
Guest on “The Show”, KJZZ Phoenix, AZ (Radio show, March 2025).
“Post-Western Frontiers: Investigating the Inheritance of the Mythic West in Late-Twentieth Century British Comics.” Comics Research Hub, Launch Event (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, October 2018).
William Grady 