Monstrous Women in Comics, UK Feminist Cartoons, Comics and Modernism | New Book Reviews by Franco, Raina, Connerty

Sharing three new book reviews published in The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship today.

A Comics Grid 2023 Submissions Update and Season’s Greetings

I repeat and update on the journal's news section and Comics Grid's end-of-year newsletter and wish this blog's readers happy holidays.

Call for Submissions. Graphic Biographical Fiction (Deadline: 31 August 2024). The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship Special Collection

Deadline for full submissions: 31 August 2024.

Presenting at The Lower Decks. A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing. September 7–8, 2023 | Birkbeck, University of London

I will be presenting on Friday 8th September, 2023 with the title "Making Gatekeeping Transparent: Insights from a Decade of Trying Open Peer Review".

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, out now in technicolour open access.

Wrestling Graphic Novels: A Comics Grid Webinar with Anna Marta Marini and Jessica Fontaine

Today! Join us for our Comics Grid Webinar as part of International Open Access Week 2021.

Discussing Inclusivity in Scholarly Publishing within the Open Library of Humanities Editors Workshop, Wednesday 27th October 2021, 2-5pm (UK time)

On Wednesday 27th October 2021, as part of International Open Access Week, I will participate in the OLH Editors Workshop within the panel "Inclusivity in Scholarly Publishing".

New article: Searching for a Common Ancestry: Linguistic and Biological Analogies in Comic Art

Announcing an article coauthored with evolutionary biologist Dr Ricardo González Trujillo is now out.