From representations of the legal institution, to reading comics as discourse on the broad range of legal, moral, or jurisprudential questions, to examining how comics form relates to the concerns or practice of law and justice, this special collection seeks to publish concise and accessible, rigorous and critically developed papers that elaborate on any aspect(s) of the relationships between justice, law, comics, and graphic narrative.
Articles in this collection should be accessible across legal and comics studies audiences. Articles published in this collection go through a formal and rigorous peer reviewed process, seeking expertise from those working within and across both legal and comics studies. Submitted papers should engage directly with specific excerpts or examples of comics work, be fully developed and critically informed, and should be no more than 7,000 words. See the journal’s editorial guide for more details.
This special collection is edited by Thomas Giddens (University of Dundee, Founder Graphic Justice Research Alliance) and Ernesto Priego (City University).
Visit www.graphicjustice.org for more information on the intersections of law, comics, and justice.
Research
Picture-Perfect or Potentially Perilous? Assessing the Validity of ‘Comic Contracts’
Mark Anthony Giancaspro
2020-07-16 Volume 10 • 2020
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Using Comics to Communicate Legal Contract Cancellation
Marietjie Botes
2017-10-05 Volume 7 • 2017
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See No Evil, Print No Evil: The Criminalization of Free Speech in DMZ
Angus Nurse
2017-08-03 Volume 7 • 2017
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Doom’s Law: Spaces of Sovereignty in Marvel’s Secret Wars
Neal Curtis
2017-07-18 Volume 7 • 2017
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The Visualized Employment Contract. An Exploratory Study on Contract Visualization in Danish Employment Contracts
Niels Høegh Madsen, Mathias Stengaard and Maria Jose Schmidt-Kessen
2021-10-27 Volume 11 • 2021
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Composing the Handmaid: From Graphic Novel to Protest Icon
Johanna Commins
2021-02-25 Volume 11 • 2021
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Law as a Game of Chance: Rabelais’ Bridlegoose and DC’s Two-Face
Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone
2022-12-19 Volume 12 • 2022
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Interview
“I’m Aware that a Lot of these People that I’m Feeling Sorry for are Wankers”: A Conversation with Hannah Berry
Thomas Giddens
2018-07-02 Volume 8 • 2018
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Collections
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Comics and Nationality
Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes
Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics
Rapid Responses: Comics in and of The Moment
Creating Comics, Creative Comics
Graphic Scholarship
Poetics of Digital Comics
Graphic Justice
Find David Bowie: Alternative Approaches to Bowie and Comics
Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics