Great Resources for Comics Scholarship

by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com

THE COMICS GRID, JOURNAL OF COMICS SCHOLARSHIP

What's Out There...

There is considerably more scholarship in the area of visual narrative than most educators or, indeed, most outside the areas of comics publishing and production are aware. Here is a starting point for your investigations. If you find others that you think should be represented here, just let me know and we can add them to the Scholarship tab under Graphica.

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Sequart

Sequart is devoted to promoting comics as a serious art form and to the study of popular culture. It produces books, documentary films, and features online articles, reviews, and editorials on comics and graphic novels.

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Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

An open access and open peer-reviewed digital journal of comics scholarship that includes articles, call for papers, and a variety of other features for those within and outside of academia. Their blog is found at blog.comicsgrid.com.

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The Comics Journal

A forum dedicated to increasing the availability and accessibility of comics scholarship through academic conferences that bring together scholars, artists, and fans of the genre. It features columns, reviews, and an archive as well.

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Comics Research

A great starting point for comics scholarship that features annotated lists of book-length studies of the comics form. Updates, announcements and other comics news can be found at their blog site, Comics Research & Such.

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Institute for Comics Studies

A non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the study, understanding, recognition and cultural legitimacy of comics.

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