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The Comics Grid’s 15th volume, corresponding to 2025 has been wrapped.
The Times They Are a-Changin’
We would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to all colleagues who submitted their work to us and showed patience and understanding throughout the editorial process.
Processing times have been longer than usual this year, largely due to the increasing difficulty of securing available peer reviewers. Peer review is a form of essential volunteer labour that underpins scholarly publishing, and we are deeply grateful to those who generously gave their time and expertise.
The Comics Grid was originally guided by a rapid publication ideal. The pragmatic realities of academia and scholarly publishing, however, mean that we must prioritise quality and robustness over quantity and speed. We have updated our submission page to reflect the current publication timelines: https://www.comicsgrid.com/submissions/ .
We extend our sincere thanks to the many colleagues and editorial team members who contributed to peer review, copyediting, proofreading, and typesetting; their commitment is fundamental to the continued publication of The Comics Grid.
Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction
We are delighted that the Special Collection, Graphic Biographical Fiction, went live on Monday 8 December 2025 with an initial set of four articles. Additional contributions accepted for the collection are currently in copyediting or typesetting and will be published as soon as the relevant editorial stages are complete. Further submissions to the collection remain under peer review.
The collection’s landing page is available at https://www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1778/info/, where newly published articles will be added on an ongoing basis. This means that this collection will span over our 2025 and 2026 volumes.
Proposed, curated, and edited by Dr Nancy Pedri (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and Maria Juko (Independent Researcher), with editorial management support from Dr Ernesto Priego (City St George’s, University of London) and Dr Peter Wilkins (Douglas College), the Graphic Biographical Fiction special collection brings together scholarship on graphic works that depict the lives of “real” individuals, engaging with the broader field of auto/biographical fiction. The contributions examine practices of self-insertion and self-representation, the interplay between subject and artistic production, and varying degrees of fictionalisation.
The collection is composed entirely of peer-reviewed Research articles. We extend our sincere thanks to our publisher, the Open Library of Humanities, as well as to the volunteer peer reviewers and copyeditors whose time and expertise were essential to the realisation of this special collection.
This year’s volume includes 11 articles (in comparison to 9 last year) across the Research, Graphic Scholarship, Interview and Commentary sections:
RESEARCH
Remm, A. A., (2025) “Ecofeminism, Trauma, and Visual Metamorphosis in Una’s Becoming Unbecoming ”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.18270
Labarre, N., (2025) “Moebius and Digital Tools: From Experimentation to Remediation”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.17525
Üstbaş, M., (2025) “Velázquez’s The Ladies-in-Waiting in Panels: Recreating a Painting within the Poetics of Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.16440
Schmitt, A., (2025) “A Woolf of Her Own: Distributed Biographical Cognition in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.18029
Schröer, M., (2025) “This Is Not a Biography: Artists’ Lives in Graphic Biofictions ”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.18647
Roca Vera, D. & Ruiz Rallo, A., (2025) “The Impact of South Korean Women’s Narratives: Amplifying Female Voices through Webtoons and Drama Adaptations”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.17174https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.17174
Olsza, M. W., (2025) “Everywoman’s Story: Reading Abortion Eve and Not Funny Ha Ha as Graphic Biofiction and Zóéfiction”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.17501
GRAPHIC SCHOLARSHIP
Gray, M., (2025) “The Cartoon Mode Provides a Stage: Understanding Comics through Performance ”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.17713
INTERVIEW
Priego, E., (2025) “ Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (2025). An Interview with Vincent Hazard ”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.24077
Das, L. & Venkatesan, S., (2025) “Graphic Resilience: Illness, Identity, and Empowerment in Neelam Kumar’s To Cancer, with Love: A Graphic Novel”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.25325
COMMENTARY
Bartual, R., (2025) “Visual Metaphor in Comics. An Incomplete Taxonomy”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.18759
You can access all our archive at https://www.comicsgrid.com/issues/.
Recommend us!
The Comics Grid’s publisher, the Open Library of Humanities, has a “Recommend Us” tool designed to help raise awareness of its work in open-access publishing. As the OLH does not invest in paid advertising, it depends on word of mouth to reach potential library supporters. This support is crucial in covering the publication costs of journals such as The Comics Grid and in enabling the OLH to continue its work of transitioning more journals to open access (see The OLH Model for further details on funding). The tool is available at https://www.openlibhums.org/plugins/supporters/recommend-us/ and can be completed in just a few minutes. We warmly encourage you to take part.
Winter Break Closure Arrangements
The Comics Grid editorial office will be closed from 20 December 2025– 20 January 2026 inclusive. All editorial and review duties will be resumed from 20 January 2026 onward. There will be no editorial nor technical support monitoring throughout this period. We encourage everyone to take a well-deserved break!
The OLH team will mostly be on leave while Birkbeck, University of London has its Christmas closure from 6pm on Tuesday 23rd December 2025 with services resuming on Monday 5th January 2026, which means that editorial support from OLH will not be available during this break.
Everyone at The Comics Grid would like to extend once again our heartfelt thanks to all our contributors and collaborators for your hard work, care, and commitment throughout the year. It has been a pleasure working with you, and we very much look forward to continuing our collaborations in the year ahead. To our readers, colleagues, and friends, thank you for your continued enthusiasm and support.
With the festive season upon us, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy, and productive New Year 2026.
Ernesto Priego & Peter Wilkins
on behalf of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
If you’ve read this far, you are a scholarly legend. Thank you. You probably also read every side of the cereal box. This email was produced by a human being with a very heavy workload who works in a factory that produces a large volume of hypertext. Some typos might have remained. Merry Christmas! See you in 2026.
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