Short Science Comics for a Broad Audience - An Interview with Jessica Burton and Serge Haan from LUX:plorations

Nicole Paschek (University of Luxembourg)

New Special Collection: Rapid Responses

Comics as Pedagogy: On Studying Illness in a Pandemic

Lisa Diedrich (Stony Brook University)

“Earth Girl Won’t Stand For It!”: Representations of Environmental (In)Justice in 'Mayah’s Lot' (2012)

Brianna Anderson (University of Florida)

Mourning the Mamalith: A Graphic Response to Grief

Maureen Burdock (UC Davis)

Pandemic Cartoons for the #Draw Challenge: Sisyphus as Key Worker and The Toad and the Scorpion

Louisa Elizabeth Buck (University of Brighton)

Snakes and Things: A Comic Exploration of Species through the COVID-19 Crisis

Gina Matteo (San Francisco State University)

The Intersection of Dwarfism and Gender in Alisa’s Tale: Raising Awareness through Graphic Narrative

Erin Pritchard (Liverpool Hope University)

Open Submissions Closed Until 1st July 2022

Call for Papers: Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

Founded in 2010, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is an open-access, researcher-led, peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal aims to publish original and specialised contributions to the field of comics scholarship from multidisciplinary and media-specific perspectives. The Comics Grid aims to promote innovative comics scholarship where the writing is energetic and theoretically and interpretively bold, and that presents specialised knowledge in accessible and engaging forms. The journal also considers submissions that explore the ways in which comics can be used for scholarly purposes.

This journal has peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed sections. All claims expressed in articles published by this journal are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers.

Posted by The Editors on 2022-04-11

We are happy to announce the publication of our latest special collection 'Rapid Responses: Comics in and of the Moment'. This special collection invited timely creative responses concerning how comics are used in generative ways as spaces for people to find community, as tools for dissemination of stories otherwise untold or voices unheard, as spaces for the processing of grief and the [...]

Open Submissions Closed Until 1st July 2022

Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2021-11-24

This is an update to our announcement of changes in our submission process from 24 May 2021.The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship remains closed for open submissions for the time being. The journal will reopen on 1 July 2022 to receive submissions for the Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes special collection. Before 1 [...]

Rapid Responses: Comics in and of The Moment

This special collection invited timely creative responses concerning how comics are used in generative ways as spaces for people to find community, as tools for dissemination of stories otherwise untold or voices unheard, and as spaces for the processing of grief and self-discovery in difficult times. We especially wished to encourage graphic responses, notes, commentaries and interviews that offered concise commentary on mental health, disability and illness, politics and social inequalities. Edited by Jeanette D'Arcy and Kay Sohini, with Ernesto Priego and Peter Wilkins.