The Comics Grid: New and Recent Articles (2023-2024)

~ Ernesto Priego

The Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship cover image with OLH logo. Space astronaut rescue 50s comic image. Public Domain.

Recently we announced 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.

I’d like to pesonally thank every author, editorial board member and peer reviewer who contributed to making the publication of these articles possible. Many thanks as well to the Open Library of Humanities, Janeway Systems and Silicon Chips Services for providing the essential infrastructure and support.

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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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