Closing 2022 at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

Like every year I drafted an end-of-year newsletter round-up for The Comics Grid this year.

2022 was our 12th year and therefore our 12th volume. I’d like to personally thank everyone involved in the production of the Grid: without everyone’s participation nothing would have been possible.

For personal preservation purposes I have copied and pasted below the text from the newsletter. If you saw this elsewhere, apologies for the cross-posting as they say….

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Thank you all very much indeed; take care, and happy holidays!

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 23December 2022 and 16 January 2023. We at the Comics Grid would like to wish you a pleasant and restful winter break, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! This was 2022: 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 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.8232 Whatley, E., (2022) “Drawing the Invisible: Comics as a Way of Depicting Psychological Responses to the Pandemic”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6354 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 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6468 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 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6545 Matteo, G., (2022) “Snakes and Things: A Comic Exploration of Species through the COVID-19 Crisis”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6551 Burdock, M., (2022) “Mourning the Mamalith: A Graphic Response to Grief”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.7665 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 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6484 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 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6552 Mazowita, A., (2022) “Graphic Communities: Comics as Visual and Virtual Resources for Self and Collective Care”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6493 Diedrich, L., (2022) “Comics as Pedagogy: On Studying Illness in a Pandemic”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.7680 Sohini, K., (2022) “On Graphic Scholarship: A Conversation with Nick Sousanis”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.8773 Priego, E., (2022) “Cartooning with Compassion: A Conversation with Megan Herbert”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.8705 Paschek, N., (2022) “Short Science Comics for a Broad Audience – An Interview with Jessica Burton and Serge Haan from LUX:plorations”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6369 Puc, R., (2022) “An Archive of the New: A Review of Key Terms in Comics Studies”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.8887 Berube, L., (2022) “The Parallel Universe: A Review of Webcomics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.9733 Liu, C., (2022) “Mapping World Comics: A Review of How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.9708 Bonello Rutter Giappone, K., (2022) “Law as a Game of Chance: Rabelais’ Bridlegoose and DC’s Two-Face”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.9387

Conjuring a New Normal: Time is Running Out! Call for Papers: Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes. Special Collection Editors: Alexandra Alberda, Anna Feigenbaum, and Julia Round (Bournemouth University, UK) Due to popular demand we extended the deadline (full papers) for this collection from the original 1 September 2022 to 15 January 2023. There’s still some time!  Full call at https://www.comicsgrid.com/news/595/ Sorry it’s a mid January deadline…

Other Deadlines The Comics Grid publishes one volume per year, with two issues per volume: Winter – open submissions Spring/Summer – special collection articles These publication cycles may be subject to change depending on editorial and peer review workloads. 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 section. Other special collections might be ongoing. We publish all special collection articles as part of the same volume, but also within a separate collection page. When submitting to a special collection, mention the name of the collection in a note to the editor. If you are considering submitting your work for review, we suggest you familiarise yourself with the journal first. Take a look at our special collections here. All the volumes published so far are here. This newsletter was produced in a factory that processes texts so some typos might have remained. If they did, please be kind and ignore them. If you have read all the way here, thank you. (No, really. You are one of a kind). Once again, merry Christmas and happy new year! Take care.