Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2026-01-21
Editorial processes have been resumed at our editorial HQ and Volume 16 (2026) will be published on a rolling basis as soon as articles become ready. Volume 16 can be found at https://www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1782/info/.https://www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1782/info/.
As you know, the Special Collection, Graphic Biographical Fiction, went live on Monday 8 December 2025. The collection’s landing page is available at https://www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1778/info/, where newly published articles are being dded on an ongoing basis. This means that this collection also spans over Volume 16 (2026). Contributions accepted for the collection that are still undergoing revisions, copyediting or typesetting will be published in the relevant volume as soon as all their editorial stages are complete.
Processing times continue to vary due to the increasing difficulty of securing available peer reviewers. Peer review is a form of essential volunteer labour that underpins scholarly publishing, and we are deeply grateful to those who generously gave their time and expertise.
The Comics Grid was originally guided by a rapid publication ideal. The pragmatic realities of academia and scholarly publishing, however, mean that we must prioritise quality and robustness over quantity and speed. We have updated our submission page to reflect the current publication timelines: https://www.comicsgrid.com/submissions/. Authors with submissions under consideration or undergoing editorial processes can check the status of their submission via the journal management system.
The Comics Grid’s publisher, the Open Library of Humanities, has a “Recommend Us” tool designed to help raise awareness of its work in open-access publishing. As the OLH does not invest in paid advertising, it depends on word of mouth to reach potential library supporters. This support is crucial in covering the publication costs of journals such as The Comics Grid and in enabling the OLH to continue its work of transitioning more journals to open access (see The OLH Model for further details on funding). The tool is available at https://www.openlibhums.org/plugins/supporters/recommend-us/ and can be completed in just a few minutes. We warmly encourage you to take part.
Finally we'd like to share that our publisher, The Open Library of Humanities (OLH), has published its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy following more than a year-long consultation process with our journals' editorial teams. You can read it here: https://www.openlibhums.org/site/ai-policy/.
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If you've read this far, you are a scholarly legend. Thank you. This news item was produced by an academic human being with a very heavy workload who works in a factory that produces a large volume of hypertext. Some typos might have remained. The image on this post is a fragment from a panel from The Hunting Accident (15, © David L. Carlson 2017), as discussed in Stupak, S., (2026) “In the Eye of the Blind: A Biofictional Account of Nathan Leopold in The Hunting Accident (2017) ”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.17759.