Interview with Peter Kessler

Abstract In this interview, television producer and polymath Peter Kessler reflects on the origins of his love of comics and his developing critical awareness of the artistic dimensions of the medium, which led to one of the first studies of a comics series to be published in the UK, his guide to Astérix . He recounts his association with the Lakes Comics Festival, where, in a productive collaboration, he brought an innovative approach to events, and lifts the veil on the process that enabled comics to breach the walls of the University of Oxford. He shares his views on the role of comics in secondary education, and on transmedial adaptation, and offers an analytical take on the creative resources that are peculiar to comics.