As part of Strathclyde University's Living Languages series 2025-2026, a programme of conversations exploring the use of languages in professional contexts, join us at Strathclyde Union for a conversation between Dr Rhiannon McGlade and James Albon, illustrator and graphic novelist and the owners of La Belle Adventure Bookshop.

All tickets are free and there will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the conversation.

Details of the room will be sent to registered attendees ahead of the event.

The talk will be in English. 

About our speakers : 

• James Albon  is a British author and illustrator. His clients include the Folio Society, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, Libération and Penguin Random House. He studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art, and went on to a postgraduate scholarship at the Royal Drawing School in London. He won the V&A Illustration Award in 2022, was a chosen winner of American Illustration in 2022 and 2021, has been a Laureate of the Rene Carcan Biennale in 2020 and 2014, and was awarded the Gwen May Award from the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 2012. His work has been widely exhibited in London, Paris, New York and Brussels, at venues including The Royal Academy, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Museum of American Illustration, The Musée Belvue, and Christie’s.

• Anabelle Araujo one of the owner of La Belle Adventure, an Edinburgh based book shop, specialising in French and European comics. 

• Dr Rhiannon McGlade is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Strathclyde and General Editor of the Journal of Catalan Studies. Rhiannon has published and presented broadly across Spanish and Catalan cultures, history and politics, focusing on comics, the satirical press and humour, including her book, Catalan Cartoons: A cultural and political history (2016). Her current project explores visual print media and gender and sexual-identity politics in Spain’s countercultural scene. She worked with the Centre d’Études Catalanes at the Sorbonne and speaks French.