The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

Of Time, Renewal, and Scholarship: Volume 11 (2021) Wrapped

Ernesto Priego (City, University of London), Jeanette D'Arcy (Independent), Kay Sohini (Stony Brook University), Peter Wilkins (Douglas College)

Graphic Math: A Collection of Interviews With Creators of Mathematically Themed Graphic Novels

Audrey Nasar (The Fashion Institute of Technology)

Mapping the Black Comic Imaginary: Beyond the Black Panther at the MSU Museum

Julian C Chambliss (Michigan State University)

Open Submissions Closed Until 1st July 2022

The Visualized Employment Contract. An Exploratory Study on Contract Visualization in Danish Employment Contracts

Niels Høegh Madsen (illu), Mathias Stengaard (illu), Maria Jose Schmidt-Kessen (Copenhagen Business School)

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

Graphic Backgrounds: Collective Dissociative Trauma in Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds (2007)

Jamie Michaels (Independent scholar)

Where Comics and Cultural Heritage Meet: A Conversation with Damien Sueur and Yannis Koikas on BDnF: The Comics Factory

Ernesto Priego (Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design, City, University of London), Stuart Scott (City Interaction Lab, City, University of London)

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

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.

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 [...]

Recording of our Fourth Webinar: The Comics Grid Webinar Series - Live Chats on Comics Scholarship - Wrestling Graphic Novels: A Comics Grid Webinar with Anna Marta Marini and Jessica Fontaine

Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2021-11-17

You can now watch the recording of our fourth Comics Grid webinar on Wrestling Graphic Novels organised on October 26th 2021. On this webinar co-hosted by Paula Clemente Vega (Open Library of Humanities) and Dr Ernesto Priego (editor, The Comics Grid; City, University of London) panelists Anna Marta Marini (Universidad de Alcalá) and Jessica Fontaine (McGill University) discussed the [...]