The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
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Peer-reviewed, Researcher-led Diamond open-access Journal of Comics Scholarship since 2010. Published by @openlibhums.org. Reposts, ❤s are not endorsements. https://linktr.ee/comicsgrid
Sad news- The Comics Grid as a project is greatly indebted to many of his early ideas and initiatives on open access- our condolences.
All of us at RLUK were shocked and saddened to hear the news that Paul Aryis has died. Paul was committed to building up the library community - as well as his work at UCL he generously gave his time and wisdom to a wide range of conferences, workshops, and committees.
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Dr Paul Ayris | LERU
Dr Paul Ayris LERU UCL Open Science
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December 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Sad news- The Comics Grid as a project is greatly indebted to many of his early ideas and initiatives on open access- our condolences.
New in the journal! To close this year's volume (volume 15!): Everywoman’s Story: Reading Abortion Eve and Not Funny Ha Ha as Graphic Biofiction and Zóéfiction doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess
Everywoman’s Story: Reading <em>Abortion Eve</em> and <em>Not Funny Ha Ha</em> as Graphic Biofiction and Zóéfiction
This article discusses two American pro-choice comics in the wider context of graphic biofiction. One is the now legendary Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli’s Abortion Eve (1973) and the other is Leah Hayes...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New in the journal! To close this year's volume (volume 15!): Everywoman’s Story: Reading Abortion Eve and Not Funny Ha Ha as Graphic Biofiction and Zóéfiction doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess
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New in the @comicsgrid.com > “This Is Not a Biography: Artists’ Lives in Graphic Biofictions ” by Marie Schröer:
This Is Not a Biography: Artists’ Lives in Graphic Biofictions
This article explores the potential of comics as a medium for artist biofiction, focusing on how visual depictions of renowned artists’ lives and works illustrate varying conceptions of biofiction. Through analysis of six artist biofictions – Pablo (Birmant and Oubrerie 2015), Vincent (Stok 2014), Munch (Kverneland 2016), Gauguin (Dori 2017), Andy (Typex 2018), and Magritte (Campi and Zabus 2017) – the study examines how comics create artistic experiences that challenge conventional life writing by blending factual and fictional elements. Distinguishing between comics that reveal an awareness of their narrative construction and those maintaining the integrity of the fourth wall, the paper introduces the concepts of a “biofictional pact” and “metabiofiction” as frameworks to differentiate between self-reflective and traditional approaches to artist biofiction in comics.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
New in the @comicsgrid.com > “This Is Not a Biography: Artists’ Lives in Graphic Biofictions ” by Marie Schröer:
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Published today in @comicsgrid.com, an interview with Neelam Kumar: Graphic Resilience: Illness, Identity, and Empowerment in To Cancer, with Love: A Graphic Novel: doi.org/10.16995/cg....
Graphic Resilience: Illness, Identity, and Empowerment in Neelam Kumar’s To Cancer, with Love: A Graphic Novel
The depiction of illness in comics has garnered increasing scholarly attention since the formalization of graphic medicine. This interdisciplinary field reimagines the affective and sociocultural dime...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Published today in @comicsgrid.com, an interview with Neelam Kumar: Graphic Resilience: Illness, Identity, and Empowerment in To Cancer, with Love: A Graphic Novel: doi.org/10.16995/cg....
New article! The Global Impact of South Korean Women's Narratives: Amplifying Female Voices through Webtoons and Drama Adaptations doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies @openlibhums.org
The Global Impact of South Korean Women's Narratives: Amplifying Female Voices through Webtoons and Drama Adaptations
The current international influence of female creators in the webtoon industry of South Korea challenges gender barriers within the traditionally male-dominated comic and film sector. Through mixed me...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New article! The Global Impact of South Korean Women's Narratives: Amplifying Female Voices through Webtoons and Drama Adaptations doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies @openlibhums.org
Today we've published a new addition to the Graphic Biographical Fiction Special Collection (edited by @mariajuko.bsky.social & Nancy Pedri): This Is Not a Biography: Artists’ Lives in Graphic Biofictions doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess
This Is Not a Biography: Artists’ Lives in Graphic Biofictions
This article explores the potential of comics as a medium for artist biofiction, focusing on how visual depictions of renowned artists’ lives and works illustrate varying conceptions of biofiction. Th...
doi.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today we've published a new addition to the Graphic Biographical Fiction Special Collection (edited by @mariajuko.bsky.social & Nancy Pedri): This Is Not a Biography: Artists’ Lives in Graphic Biofictions doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess
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So happy and proud that you can read these articles! Watch this space for more additions!! And thank youuu to @ernestopriego.com and @wilkinsp.bsky.social for your support
We are pleased to share that our Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction (edited by @mariajuko.bsky.social and Nancy Pedri) has launched today, Monday 8 December 2025, with an initial set of two articles. All in glorious Diamond, consortial #OpenAccess! #ComicsStudies @openlibhums.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
So happy and proud that you can read these articles! Watch this space for more additions!! And thank youuu to @ernestopriego.com and @wilkinsp.bsky.social for your support
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My interview with @vhazard.bsky.social from @comicsgrid.com is now also available in the @citystgeorges.bsky.social #OpenAccess repository. Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (2025). An Interview with Vincent Hazard openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...
City Research Online - Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (2025). An Interview with Vincent Hazard
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December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My interview with @vhazard.bsky.social from @comicsgrid.com is now also available in the @citystgeorges.bsky.social #OpenAccess repository. Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (2025). An Interview with Vincent Hazard openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...
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ICYMI. For moi, pour toi. Open Access. No need to ask me for a PDF... 😜
I've had a very nice chat with @ernestopriego.com (senior lecturer in comics studies at @City St George's, University of London) about our work on "Strange fruit, Abel's song" @EditionsDupuis www.comicsgrid.com/article/id/2...
Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (2025). An Interview with Vincent Hazard
This interview with Vincent Hazard explores the creative genesis and collaborative process behind Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (Dupuis, Aire Libre, 2025), a French language graphic novel illustrat...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
ICYMI. For moi, pour toi. Open Access. No need to ask me for a PDF... 😜
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İlk makalem yayında.
Santiago García ve Javier Olivares’in Las Meninas çizgi romanının, Velázquez’in başyapıtını çizgi roman kodlarıyla nasıl yeniden yarattığını inceledim.
Eserin Las meninas üzerine çizgi roman formunda bir deneme olduğu sonucuna vardım.
Santiago García ve Javier Olivares’in Las Meninas çizgi romanının, Velázquez’in başyapıtını çizgi roman kodlarıyla nasıl yeniden yarattığını inceledim.
Eserin Las meninas üzerine çizgi roman formunda bir deneme olduğu sonucuna vardım.
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: doi.org/10.16995/cg....
Velázquez’s The Ladies-in-Waiting in Panels: Recreating a Painting within the Poetics of Comics
This work seeks to show how the characteristics of Velázquez's painting Las Meninas are reproduced in Santiago García and Javier Olivares' graphic novel Las meninas [The Ladies-in-Waiting] (2014) thro...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
İlk makalem yayında.
Santiago García ve Javier Olivares’in Las Meninas çizgi romanının, Velázquez’in başyapıtını çizgi roman kodlarıyla nasıl yeniden yarattığını inceledim.
Eserin Las meninas üzerine çizgi roman formunda bir deneme olduğu sonucuna vardım.
Santiago García ve Javier Olivares’in Las Meninas çizgi romanının, Velázquez’in başyapıtını çizgi roman kodlarıyla nasıl yeniden yarattığını inceledim.
Eserin Las meninas üzerine çizgi roman formunda bir deneme olduğu sonucuna vardım.
We are pleased to share that our Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction (edited by @mariajuko.bsky.social and Nancy Pedri) has launched today, Monday 8 December 2025, with an initial set of two articles. All in glorious Diamond, consortial #OpenAccess! #ComicsStudies @openlibhums.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
We are pleased to share that our Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction (edited by @mariajuko.bsky.social and Nancy Pedri) has launched today, Monday 8 December 2025, with an initial set of two articles. All in glorious Diamond, consortial #OpenAccess! #ComicsStudies @openlibhums.org
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I've had a very nice chat with @ernestopriego.com (senior lecturer in comics studies at @City St George's, University of London) about our work on "Strange fruit, Abel's song" @EditionsDupuis www.comicsgrid.com/article/id/2...
Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (2025). An Interview with Vincent Hazard
This interview with Vincent Hazard explores the creative genesis and collaborative process behind Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (Dupuis, Aire Libre, 2025), a French language graphic novel illustrat...
www.comicsgrid.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I've had a very nice chat with @ernestopriego.com (senior lecturer in comics studies at @City St George's, University of London) about our work on "Strange fruit, Abel's song" @EditionsDupuis www.comicsgrid.com/article/id/2...
More new articles next week...
December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
More new articles next week...
New @comicsgrid.com! Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (2025). An Interview with Vincent Hazard doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies cc @openlibhums.org
Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (2025). An Interview with Vincent Hazard
This interview with Vincent Hazard explores the creative genesis and collaborative process behind Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (Dupuis, Aire Libre, 2025), a French language graphic novel illustrat...
doi.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
New @comicsgrid.com! Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (2025). An Interview with Vincent Hazard doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies cc @openlibhums.org
Another ICYMI
👀ICYMI: "The worry here, of course, is that open access gets the blame for allowing AI and scholars begin to yearn, once more, for paywalls"
#OpenAccess #ScholComm @eve.gd
#OpenAccess #ScholComm @eve.gd
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Another ICYMI
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ICYMI, because yeah, you could have missed it list.mercury.ucu.org.uk/read/archive...
UCU: UCU higher education industrial action ballot results
For now, I want to send solidarity to those of you engaged in local disputes, and offer a final thank you for the efforts involved in the ballot campaign.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ICYMI, because yeah, you could have missed it list.mercury.ucu.org.uk/read/archive...
Hey kids! Cartoons!
“Visual Rhetoric in Mediating Impartial Humor: Political Cartoons on the Russo-Ukrainian War” by Orest Semotiuk: doi.org/10.16995/olh...
Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Visual Rhetorics of Humour: The Formation and Dissemination of Stereotypes through Cartoons and Memes
Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Visual Rhetorics of Humour: The Formation and Dissemination of Stereotypes through Cartoons and Memes
Visual Rhetoric in Mediating Impartial Humor: Political Cartoons on the Russo-Ukrainian War
This study investigates the intersection of visual rhetoric and impartial humor in political cartoons portraying the Russo-Ukrainian War. Drawing on foundational works on visual rhetoric, the paper si...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Hey kids! Cartoons!
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Preparing my talk for Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area in Brussels on 04/12 org by PolSCA. Looking forward to discussing how we can promote diamond open access as an sustainable, equitable & mission-driven model of scholarly publishing operas.pl/diamond-era/ #openaccess
DIAMOND ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area
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December 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Preparing my talk for Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area in Brussels on 04/12 org by PolSCA. Looking forward to discussing how we can promote diamond open access as an sustainable, equitable & mission-driven model of scholarly publishing operas.pl/diamond-era/ #openaccess
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The journeys that some books have to take in order to reach you: many thanks to @openlibhums.org and @eve.gd for forwarding this parcel from @psupress.bsky.social to our @comicsgrid.com address- five years after making its first stop, it's finally reached us! Better late than never! #ComicsStudies
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The journeys that some books have to take in order to reach you: many thanks to @openlibhums.org and @eve.gd for forwarding this parcel from @psupress.bsky.social to our @comicsgrid.com address- five years after making its first stop, it's finally reached us! Better late than never! #ComicsStudies
Deadline 14th December 2025! 12 days left... #ComicsStudies
Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/
The volume aims to explore the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world.
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025
The volume aims to explore the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world.
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Deadline 14th December 2025! 12 days left... #ComicsStudies
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Quoting Paul Gravett:
"It seems apt that a week ago today, on the same day as our conference [ #ComicsAndAI ], Ilan Manouach was interviewed on @comicsjournal.bsky.social:
www.tcj.com/comics-peopl... "
"It seems apt that a week ago today, on the same day as our conference [ #ComicsAndAI ], Ilan Manouach was interviewed on @comicsjournal.bsky.social:
www.tcj.com/comics-peopl... "
'Comics people generally hate what I do': The Ilan Manouach Interview - The Comics Journal
Ilan Manouach interviewed by Robert Aman.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Quoting Paul Gravett:
"It seems apt that a week ago today, on the same day as our conference [ #ComicsAndAI ], Ilan Manouach was interviewed on @comicsjournal.bsky.social:
www.tcj.com/comics-peopl... "
"It seems apt that a week ago today, on the same day as our conference [ #ComicsAndAI ], Ilan Manouach was interviewed on @comicsjournal.bsky.social:
www.tcj.com/comics-peopl... "
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September 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A student in our MSc is doing a project titled "Reimagining Reference Management Tools as Living Knowledge Management Systems". I know many of my followers here use Mendeley, Zotero, etc. Please help her with her survey? cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
It's been an exciting and super busy editorial year at The Comics Grid. Processing times have not been short. We appreciate the kind, ongoing patience of all involved authors and reviewers. Scholarly goodness is coming. Bear with us! It will be worth it. #Researcherled #OpenAccess
August 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It's been an exciting and super busy editorial year at The Comics Grid. Processing times have not been short. We appreciate the kind, ongoing patience of all involved authors and reviewers. Scholarly goodness is coming. Bear with us! It will be worth it. #Researcherled #OpenAccess