Gyula Maksa, PhD, dr. habil. is an associate professor at the University of Pécs (Hungary), Department of Communication and Media Studies, where he directs the Comics Studies Research Center (Képregénytudományi Kutatóközpont). He has organized several conferences, exhibitions and published two books in Hungarian on comics as a medium: Változatok képregényre (Variation for Comics, Budapest-Pécs, Hungary, 2010), Képregények kultúraközi áramlatokban (Comics in Transcultural Flows, Cluj, Romania, 2017). His main research areas are the geopolitics of comics, transcultural situations and communicative uses of comics.