Posted by The Editors on 2026-03-23
The Comics Grid Webinar / Wednesday 1 April 2026* / 5-6:30pm BST / Online
Do I Have to Draw a Picture? Reframing Comics Scholarship
Wednesday 1 April 2026 / 5-6:30pm BST / Online
Free but registration is required: https://www.openlibhums.org/news/928/
Join us for a Comics Grid webinar on Graphic Scholarship, a conversation about comics as a form of thinking, researching, and communicating knowledge. Starting from the perspective of the journal’s changing editorial guidelines for our Graphic Scholarship collection, the discussion will look back at major developments in the field over the past decade while also taking a longer historical view of comics used for and with research.
The webinar will explore questions of form, readership, experimentation, assessment and editorial constraints, accessibility, and legitimacy, asking what graphic scholarship has become, and where it might go next.
Speakers:
· Dr Nicolas Labarre, University Bordeaux Montaigne, France, Graphic Scholarship section editor, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
· Dr Ernesto Priego, City St George’s, University of London, UK, editor, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
· Dr Peter Wilkins, Douglas College, Vancouver, Canada, editor, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
Chair:
· Dr Paula Clemente Vega, Open Library of Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London.
Free but registration is required: https://www.openlibhums.org/news/928/
Figure: Fragment from Farinella, M., (2018) “Of Microscopes and Metaphors: Visual Analogy as a Scientific Tool”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 8, 18. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.130
Like what we do? Recommend us!
If you like the work that the Open Library of Humanities is doing, please recommend us to your institution. We cannot operate without our library members. Your support helps keep us open and accessible for all.