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In case anyone is still hanging out here, new @ComicsGrid: Visual Metaphor in Comics. An Incomplete Taxonomy, by @RobertoBartual doi.org/10.16995/cg.18759 #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies - you can find us now, slowly but surely, at Bsky @ comicsgrid dot com

Visual Metaphor in Comics. An Incomplete Taxonomy

In comics, images are much more than merely a component of a narrative. Sometimes they are also conceived to channel metaphorical information. They are built to express a kind of poetry. Visual...

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The Comics Grid editorial office will be closed from 21st December 2024 – 20th January 2025 inclusive. We encourage everyone to take a well-deserved break! comicsgrid.com/news/777/ #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies

Winter Break Editorial Closure 21st December - 20th January 

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 …

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Season's Greetings! This was 2024 @ComicsGrid: mailchi.mp/152cd431a485/the-… #ComicsStudies

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New @ComicsGrid! The Aesthetics and Cultural Influence of Polish Comic Zines from the 1980s and 1990s on the Domestic Comic Market doi.org/10.16995/cg.11532 #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess

The Aesthetics and Cultural Influence of Polish Comic Zines from the 1980s and 1990s on the...

 As a result of the economic and political upheavals at the end of the 1980s, the Polish comic market in 1990s was dominated by foreign publishers (TM-Semic and Egmont), who concentrated on American...

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Hi, if you are still here but also on Bluesky or curious about it (bsky.app), you can also find us over there under the handle '@comicsgrid.com'. #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess
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New @ComicsGrid! Visual Storytelling and Historical Memory. A Review of Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics (@UTexasPress) doi.org/10.16995/cg.18185 #ComicsStudies

Visual Storytelling and Historical Memory. A Review of Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights...

This review explores Jorge Santos’ Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement (University of Texas Press, 2019), which analyzes how graphic novels reframe cultural memory of the civil rights...

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From the Archives: Degand, D., (2020) “Brotherman, Family, and Legacies: Recognizing the Contributions of African American Independent Comic Book Writers and Artists”. doi.org/10.16995/cg.203
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From the Archives: Dunley, K., Priego, E. & Wilkins, P., (2020) “Our Pandemic Year: On the Comics Scholarship to Come”. comicsgrid.com/article/id/36…

Our Pandemic Year: On the Comics Scholarship to Come

This editorial article reflects on the past, present and future of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. It discusses the challenges overcome so far, and discusses the tenth volume of the...

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From the Archives: Manouach, I., (2019) “Peanuts minus Schulz: Distributed Labor as a Compositional Practice”. doi.org/10.16995/cg.139
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From the Archives: Dodds, N., (2019) “The Practice of Authentication: Adapting Pilgrimage from Nenthead into a Graphic Memoir”. doi.org/10.16995/cg.154
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From the Archives: Murel, J., (2018) “On the Significance of the Graphic Novel to Contemporary Literary Studies: A Review of The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel”. doi.org/10.16995/cg.138
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From the Archives: Priego, E., (2018) “The Comics Page: Scholarly Books Briefly Noted (2017–2018)”. doi.org/10.16995/cg.136
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From the Archives: Botes, M., (2017) “Using Comics to Communicate Legal Contract Cancellation”. doi.org/10.16995/cg.100
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From the Archives: Martin, C., (2017) “With, Against or Beyond Print? Digital Comics in Search of a Specific Status”. doi.org/10.16995/cg.106
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From the Archives: Pillai, N. & Priego, E., (2016) “Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics”. doi.org/10.16995/cg.92
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From the Archives: Gray, B., (2016) “The Unbearable Blind Spots of Comics Scholarship”. comicsgrid.com/article/id/35…

The Unbearable Blind Spots of Comics Scholarship

Comics scholarship has a problem with representation that could be addressed if it paid greater attention to whose voices are amplified and when. This commentary is a call to attend to diversity in...

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From the Archives: Uribe-Jongbloed, E., (2015) “Never Judge a Book by its Comics. A Review of Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics”. doi.org/10.5334/cg.ba
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From the Archives: Baker, J., (2015) “Retaking Responsibility for How We Communicate. A Review of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future”. doi.org/10.5334/cg.az
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From the Archives: Earle, H., (2014) “Traumatic Analepsis and Ligne Claire in GB Tran’s Vietnamerica”. doi.org/10.5334/cg.at
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