As Irish LGBTQ+ comics continue to break barriers, here are some unmissable titles for you to check out
David Ferguson of the Irish Comic News awards rounds up some of the best representations and creations from the queer community.
Top News
Image: Stephen Byrne
As we’re in January of 2021, a lot of people are looking back at the year that was. While I was preparing the nominees for the Irish Comic News awards, I noticed that 2020 had a number of great LGBTQ+ independent books and it got me thinking about how far representation in the Irish independent comics scene has come since I started working for ICN.
Experiment takes snapshots of light, stops light, uses light to change properties of matter
PITTSBURGH Light travels at a speed of about 300,000,000 meters per second as light particles, photons, or equivalently as electromagnetic field waves. Experiments led by Hrvoje Petek, an R.K. Mellon professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy examined ideas surrounding the origins of light, taking snapshots of light, stopping light and using it to change properties of matter.
Petek worked with students and collaborators Prof. Chen-Bin (Robin) Huang of the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, and Atsushi Kubo of the Tsukuba University of Japan on the experiments. Their findings were reported in the paper, Plasmonic topological quasiparticle on the nanometre and femtosecond scales, which was published in the Dec. 24 issue of Nature magazine.