Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2025-12-08
We are pleased to share that our Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction has launched today, Monday 8 December 2025, with an initial set of two articles:
Üstbaş, M., (2025) “Velázquez’s The Ladies-in-Waiting in Panels: Recreating a Painting within the Poetics of Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.16440
and
Schmitt, A., (2025) “A Woolf of Her Own: Distributed Biographical Cognition in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.18029
Other articles accepted for the collection will be published as soon as editorial processes are completed.
The collection's landing page is at https://www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1778/info/, where new articles will appear as soon as they are published.
Proposed, curated and edited by Dr Nancy Pedri (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and Maria Juko (Independent Researcher) with editorial management assistance from Dr Ernesto Priego (City St George's, University of London) and Dr Peter Wilkins (Douglas College), this special collection examines a variety of graphic works depicting the lives of "real" people, connecting to the genre of auto/biofiction. The authors explore questions of self-insertion and self-representation, conflating subject and artistic output, as well as the levels of fictionalisation.
This collection is composed by peer-reviewed Research articles. Our gratitude to our Publisher, Open Library of Humanities, and all the participating volunteer peer reviewers and copyeditors, without whom this collection would not have been possible.
Keep an eye on the journal and our social media channels for news!