The Comics Grid
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is a peer‑reviewed, open‑access journal about comics studies. It also publishes scholarly work in the form of comics. The project began around 2009–2010 as a peer‑reviewed comics studies blog created by Roberto Bartual, Esther Claudio, Ernesto Priego, Greice Schneider, and Tony Venezia. It became an open‑access journal in 2013, published first by Ubiquity Press and, since 2015, by the Open Library of Humanities.
The journal is indexed in major databases such as the MLA International Bibliography, Scopus, and the Emerging Sources Citation Index. It released Year One, a 292‑page open‑access ebook compiling the first volume’s articles from 2011–2012. The Comics Grid also hosts Webinar Series, live online panels where authors discuss their recent articles; recordings are available on YouTube.
It is listed in ComicsResearch.org and in New York University Libraries’ guides for comics research. A 2013 Glasgow Working Paper uses the journal as a case study. In 2017 the journal was nominated for a Digital Humanities Award in Public Engagement, and in 2018 two editors received an Open Scholarship Award Honorable Mention for advancing open access in comics studies.
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