This special collection presents an interdisciplinary selection of peer-reviewed articles in comics form. It aims to present, promote and examine the role comics can play as a form of science communication.
Recent publications demonstrate that comics have the potential of becoming academic outputs in their own right, and have been increasingly recognized as such by authors, publishers and academic institutions. Various webcomics as well as the growing trend of having illustrators document proceedings live at academic events (in the form of so-called 'scribing', 'sketchnoting' or 'graphic facilitation') provide evidence of the blurring of genre/medium distinctions between infographics, data visualisation, and comics. Likewise, there is evidence of researchers and educators working with illustrators to develop comics about their practice, research data and insights for dissemination and impact.
In recognition of this emerging practice The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship invited submissions on 'science' in comics form in the course of 2017. We welcome submissions from any scientific field, topic or methodology, in a bid to encourage the production and to increase the visibility of comics-as-scholarship, beyond the boundaries of comics and visual studies.
Edited by Dr Nicolas Labarre (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France) and Dr Ernesto Priego (City, University of London, UK). Featured image CC BY Lydia Wysocky.
Editors: Ernesto Priego (Editor), Nicolas Labarre (Editor)
Graphic Submissions
Of Microscopes and Metaphors: Visual Analogy as a Scientific Tool
Matteo Farinella
2018-10-10 Volume 8 • 2018 • 18
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The Story of ECT: Behind the Scenes of a Controversial yet Effective Treatment
Annie Zhu, Melissa Phuong and Peter Giacobbe
2018-09-13 Volume 8 • 2018 • 13
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Farting Jellyfish and Synergistic Opportunities: The Story and Evaluation of Newcastle Science Comic
Lydia Wysocki
2018-03-20 Volume 8 • 2018 • 6
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“I am a Teacher”: Early Career Teachers in High Needs Schools
Tabitha Dell'Angelo and Maria DeGenova
2018-03-20 Volume 8 • 2018 • 5
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Review
Enacting Graphic Mark-Making: A Review of A Theory of Narrative Drawing
Paul Fisher Davies
2018-03-26 Volume 8 • 2018 • 7
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Graphic Submissions
Nuns in Action: A Graphic Investigation into a Graphic Issue
Elizabeth Allyn Woock
2020-09-23 Volume 10 • 2020 • 10
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Mourning the Mamalith: A Graphic Response to Grief
Maureen Burdock
2022-04-11 Graphic Science
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Let Me Out of Here: A Story of Using Comics to Heal During the Pandemic
Sydney Phillips Heifler
2022-04-11 Graphic Science
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Collections
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Comics and Nationality
Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes
Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics
Rapid Responses: Comics in and of The Moment
Creating Comics, Creative Comics
Graphic Science
Poetics of Digital Comics
Graphic Justice
Find David Bowie: Alternative Approaches to Bowie and Comics
Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics