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Winter Break Editorial Closure 21st December - 20th January
Posted by The Editors on 2024-12-20
The Comics Grid editorial office will be closed from 21st December 2024 – 20th January 2025 inclusive. All editorial and review duties will be resumed from the 20th onward. There will be no editorial nor technical support monitoring throughout this period. We encourage everyone to take a well-deserved break!
The …
Posted by The Editors on 2024-09-02
To allow for more submissions and considering everybody's hectic summer schedule the special issue editors extend the deadline to 31st of October.
We hope this way potential authors feel encouraged to submit their work.
If submitting to the collection, please don't forget to mention your submission is intended for the …
Posted by The Editors on 2024-03-11
Thank you for your interest; we'll be contacting those who submitted an expression of interest soon- we have closed this call now. [13 June 2024].
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section.
The journal seeks 2,000- to …
Posted by The Editors on 2024-02-14
We are happy to announce 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.
Volume 13
Within Volume 13, we start with a long-awaited collection …
Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2023-12-21
What a year it's been. It's been busy and exciting. Under normal circumstances we would have a new volume out by now. (Then again, what are 'normal' circumstances?). Alas, we don't. Yet. But we will, soon.
Authors, reviewers and the editorial team worked very hard to try to get this …
Posted by The Editors on 2023-08-30
The Lower Decks: A symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing
Dates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023
Cost: Free
Registration: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signup
Conference programme: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/programme
Posted by The Editors on 2023-06-02
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 …
Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2023-03-02
Professor Jonathan Gray delivering his seminar talk, "Social Depths: Representing Race & Disability in Comics & Graphic Novels", on Monday 20 February 2023 at City, University of London, UK.
Many thanks to those of you who joined us for (or expressed an interest in) Prof Jonathan Gray's stimulating talk on …
Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2022-12-22
Hello!
The end (of the year) is nigh... and we have now closed the 12th volume of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
Please note the journal will not conduct editorial processes between 23 December 2022 and 16 January 2023.
We at the Comics Grid would like to …
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Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2022-09-20
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conjuring a New Normal:
Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes
A Special Collection for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
Deadline extended to 15th January 2023
[full papers; please indicate you are submitting to this special collection]
Publication: Summer 2023
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Posted by The Editors on 2022-08-04
From summer 2022, we will be publishing two issues per volume:
- Winter – open submissions
- Spring/Summer – special collection articles
The journal has no deadlines for open submissions.
Some special collections may have specific deadlines. You will find those in the calls for papers, which we publish in our news …
Posted by The Editors on 2022-04-11
We are happy to announce the publication of our latest special collection 'Rapid Responses: Comics in and of the Moment'.
This special collection invited timely creative responses concerning how comics are used in generative ways as spaces for people to find community, as tools for dissemination of stories otherwise …