Posted by The Editors on 2022-08-04

From summer 2022, we will be publishing two issues per volume:Winter – open submissionsSpring/Summer – special collection articlesThe journal has no deadlines for open submissions.Some special collections may have specific deadlines. You will find those in the calls for papers, which we publish in our news section. Other special collections might be ongoing.We publish all special collection [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2021-09-08

Live Chat | WebinarThe Comics Grid Webinar Series - Live Chats on Comics Scholarship Wrestling Graphic Novels: A Comics Grid Webinar with Anna Marta Marini and Jessica Fontaine Left image :© Jason Gonzalez, [...]

Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2021-07-21

The deadline has been extended by popular demand - you can submit your papers (full text) by 1 September 2021. Call for Papers Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution Editors: Jonathan Evans, Kathleen Dunley and Ernesto Priego Contact email for queries about this call: [...]

Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2021-05-24

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship has traditionally published one issue per year, with publication of articles as soon as they are ready. The journal has received submissions via two main routes: 1) open submissions and 2) special collection calls for papers. For open submissions, we usually have had two yearly internal deadlines, one on March 31st and one on October 31st. [...]

Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2021-03-12

We are very pleased to give a warm welcome to our two new Editorial Workflow Coordinators, Kay Sohini and Jeanette D'Arcy. Kay and Jeanette join the journal's editorial board to perform crucial management, administrative and curatorial roles, and will participate actively in shaping current and new directions for the journal.Kay Sohini is a PhD Candidate in English at Stony Brook University and [...]

Posted by OLH Janeway on 2021-02-07

You can now watch the recording of our second webinar on Music and Noir in Comics that took place on January 28th 2021. Information about the webinar and link to the recording here.Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYA--- The Comics Grid is published by the Open Library of Humanities. Unlike many open-access publishers, the Open Library of Humanities does [...]