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The Comics Grid: Call for Comics Studies Book Reviews (Spring 2024)
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section.
The journal seeks 2,000- to 2,500-word scholarly reviews of academic publications on comics and graphic novels, historical to contemporary, global north to global south, in all comics cultures.
We are looking for reviews that go beyond synopsis to thoughtful and critical engagement with the…
The Comics Grid: New and Recent Articles (2023-2024)
Recently we announced there’s new content in the journal, corresponding to our 13th and 14th volumes.Both volumes include a variety of work by 13 international scholars with affiliations in academic institutions based in nine different countries.
I’d like to pesonally thank every author, editorial board member and peer reviewer who contributed to making the publication of these articles…
New Vinyl-only Session: En el mundo de afuera (todo cambia)
“En el mundo de afuera todo cambia”
– Guadalupe Dueñas, 1958
“El cuatrapeo es parte de la improvisación, la improvisación es parte del selector”.
-Arturo Villamil, 2024, friend and fellow collector and DJ
It’s finally February! If you’ve followed this blog for a number of years (if so, thank you) you may know that in a previous life I used to DJ. Even though I was never particularly good at…
A Comics Grid 2023 Submissions Update and Season’s Greetings
I am getting everything ready before the holidays. I posted an update on the journal’s news section and sent it as the Comics Grid’s end-of-year newsletter.Even though this means repeating the information, I hope it reaches more people. Thanks to everyone who reads this blog. It might seem like social media giants have made blogging less relevant, but here’s to everyone who still supports and…
Call for Submissions. Graphic Biographical Fiction (Deadline: 31 August 2024). The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship Special Collection
A new call for submissions from The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship: Graphic Biographical Fiction (Deadline: 31 August 2024).
Call for Submissions
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction
Special Collection Editors: Nancy Pedri (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) and Maria Juko (Independent Researcher)
Scholars have only recently turned a critical eye towards the fictionalization of real people despite biofiction’s popularity on the literary market…
UK Covid Inquiry: EOHO, Hate to Say We Told You So
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry was set up “to examine the UK’s response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and learn lessons for the future”. At the time of typing this, you can catch up with the developments from the coverage here, or directly from the video recordings here, if you find the time.
The evidence has been presented at the Inquiry is hugely significant, but it is, sadly nothing new.…
Haunted by Juan Rulfo: On Books as Inheritance and Sites for Remembrance
A new blog post for día de muertos.
Today is 2 de noviembre, and as such it is and always will be día de muertos1. Often an excuse not to write more is having ‘big’ topics that will become too complex and for which I won’t have the time to discuss as they deserve. Thought I could keep trying to write about some of the items in my personal library. As always, I am not promising anything.
Anyway, as I started saying, “today is 2 de…
We Gravely Read the Stones: Revisiting Detective Comics #610, January 1990
In memoriam Alan Grant, Norm Breyfogle, Adrienne Roy, Albert DeGuzman, Dennis O’Neil and George Cordeiro.
I haven’t written here in a while, but it’s that time of the year. It’s also been a year since we moved to a house next to a Victorian cemetery. Before the clocks change, this week has had very dark mornings, and later in the day the light in the cemetery has been really beautiful. A golden…
Keynoting at Comics Forum 2023: Reboots & Remediations, Leeds Central Library
Honoured to have been invited as keynote speaker, along esteemed colleagues Zu Dominiak and Damon Herd.
Registration is now open for Comics Forum 2023: Reboots & Remediations, taking place at the beautiful Leeds Central Library on the 9th and 10th of November 2023.
Following a hiatus, Comics Forum returns to its regular slot as the academic strand of the Thought Bubble sequential art festival in November 2023. For its twelfth edition, Comics Forum will focus on the themes of reboots and…
Presenting at The Lower Decks. A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing. September 7–8, 2023 | Birkbeck, University of London
Looking forward to participating on Friday 8th September, 2023. Many thanks to the organisers for the invitation. #JanewayOA23
I will be presenting at the Open Library of Humanities’ The Lower Decks: A symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing on Friday 8th September, 2023. The title of my panel participation is “Making Gatekeeping Transparent: Insights from a Decade of Trying Open Peer Review”, where I will discuss my experience as an editor managing peer review for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics…