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 edited by Alexandra Page Alberda (University of Manchester) and Julia Round (Bournemouth University): Conjuring A New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes. 

The collection features three research articles and an editorial:
 

• Unger, D., (2023) “Collectors, Storytellers, and Web Pros: Making Comics and Building Community During the Pandemic”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 13(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.10009
• Marini, A. & Fuchs, M., (2023) “Necropolitics and Pandemic Premediation in The Fall’s Neo-Western State of Exception”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 13(1). doi:
  https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.10053
• Garcia, S. M., (2023) “Expressions of Doomscrolling in Pandemic Comics: How Portrayals of Mobile Technology Shifted to a New Normal After COVID-19”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 13(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.10296
• Alberda, A. P. & Round, J., (2023) “Editorial: Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 13(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.11257

Also within Volume 13, two book reviews and a research article:

• Konefał, S. J., (2023) “One Hundred Years of Polish Comic Books. A Review of Ewa Stańczyk's Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Change in Poland”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 13(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.10932
• Johnson, R. L., (2023) “I’m Not a Hero, I’m Just Drawn That Way: A Review of Super Bodies: Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 13(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.10780
• Woock, E. A., (2023) “Rubric and Metrics for Peer Reviewing Research Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 13(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.10179

Volume 14

We have also just published a first set of four research articles corresponding to Volume 14:

• Verstappen, N., (2024) “U Ba Kyi's Neo-Traditionalist Comics Style: At The Crossroads of Myanmar’s Buddhism, Arts and Colonial History”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 14(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.9983
• Labra, D., (2024) “Caught Between Manga and the Graphic Novel: Two Cartoonists' Trajectories in Contemporary Argentinian “National Comics””, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 14(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.10250
• Giner-Monfort, J., (2024) “The Bureau of Applied Social Research and Comics Studies in the 1940s”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 14(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.9900
• Fonioková, Z., (2024) “Identity Construction in Graphic Life Narratives by Aline Kominsky Crumb and Katie Green”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 14(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.11034

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