New Comics Grid Special Collection! ‘Rapid Responses: Comics in and of the Moment’

I am very happy to announce the publication of The Comics Grid’s 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 untold or voices unheard, and as spaces for the processing of grief and self-discovery in difficult times.

This special collection was edited by Jeanette D’Arcy, Kay Sohini, Ernesto Priego and Peter Wilkins.

Table of Contents:

Note

Anderson, B., (2022) ““Earth Girl Won’t Stand For It!”: Representations of Environmental (In)Justice in ‘Mayah’s Lot’ (2012)”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6552

Pritchard, E., (2022) “The Intersection of Dwarfism and Gender in Alisa’s Tale: Raising Awareness through Graphic Narrative”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6484


Graphic Submission

Rani, S., (2022) “A Map of the Current Cultural Climate in Medicine and Healthcare, and How We Can Change It”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.8232

Burdock, M., (2022) “Mourning the Mamalith: A Graphic Response to Grief”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.7665

Matteo, G., (2022) “Snakes and Things: A Comic Exploration of Species through the COVID-19 Crisis”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6551

Heifler, S. P., (2022) “Let Me Out of Here: A Story of Using Comics to Heal During the Pandemic”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6545

Buck, L. E., (2022) “Pandemic Cartoons for the #Draw Challenge: Sisyphus as Key Worker and The Toad and the Scorpion”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6468

Whatley, E., (2022) “Drawing the Invisible: Comics as a Way of Depicting Psychological Responses to the Pandemic”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6354


Commentary

Diedrich, L., (2022) “Comics as Pedagogy: On Studying Illness in a Pandemic”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.7680

Mazowita, A., (2022) “Graphic Communities: Comics as Visual and Virtual Resources for Self and Collective Care”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6493


Interview

Priego, E., (2022) “Cartooning with Compassion: A Conversation with Megan Herbert”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.8705

Sohini, K., (2022) “On Graphic Scholarship: A Conversation with Nick Sousanis”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.8773

Please note the journal remains closed for open submissions for the time being.

The journal will reopen on 1 July 2022 to receive submissions for the Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes special collection. Before 1 July 2022, the new submissions link in the journal will remain closed.

Submissions (full papers) will be received from 1 July 2022 [please indicate you are submitting to the Conjuring a new Normal special collection]
Deadline (full papers): 1 September 2022
Publication: Summer 2023

Full call at https://www.comicsgrid.com/news/435/

Depending on the volume of submissions to the ongoing call for papers and worfkflow capacity, the editorial board reserves the right to reopen for open submissions on 1 September 2022, in which case we will make an announcement in the News section of the journal.

Depending on the volume of submissions to the ongoing call for papers and worfkflow capacity, the editorial board also reserves the right to commission non-peer reviewed submissions during this period. 

Please keep an eye on the journal’s News section!