Karrie’s Medieval Comics

Karrie Fransman’s amazing medieval comics are now online for you to see!

Becoming beast: Marvel’s new Black Panther movie has a surprising medieval connection

Super-humans with animal abilities feature in medieval stories as well as the latest Marvel blockbuster.

How did medieval books inspire early comic book artists?

Artists of the early comic era (1920s-1930s) – such as Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward – had a keen interest in medieval woodcuts.

Bleeding Trees

As sinful human beings become less human morally in their behaviour, the trees become more human physically by their bleeding.

Getting Medieval at Orbital Comics

The Medieval Comics exhibition launched at Orbital Comics on 23 March 2017 and ran till the end of April. Visitors got to see original artwork by Karrie Fransman inspired by the work of medieval literature scholars as well as comics from the Middle Ages.

Medieval Comics Workshops at the British Library

See what we got up to at the British Library Medieval Comics workshops!

Is Mélusine on your coffee cup?

Is the two-tailed woman in the Starbucks logo the legendary heroine Mélusine?

What does the word ‘medieval’ make you think of? Comics?

If you’ve been following the Medieval Comics blog, you’re already aware of the many connections between comics and the Middle Ages. Now that the Medieval Comics workshops and exhibition are past, I’ll show you the masterpieces that Karrie and two groups of Year Nines created. You’ll see new ways of ‘getting medieval’ with comics.