The Comics Grid

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering comics studies. The journal also publishes scholarly articles in comics form.^[1]

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

Discipline	Comics studies
Language	English
Edited by	Ernesto Priego, Peter Wilkins
Publication details
Former name(s)	The Comics Grid
History	2011–present
Publisher	Open Library of Humanities
Frequency	Continuous
Open access	Yes
License	CC BY
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Comics Grid
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	2048-0792
OCLC no.	939219237
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

History

The project was originally conceived between 2009 and 2010 by comics scholars Roberto Bartual, Esther Claudio, Ernesto Priego, Greice Schneider, and Tony Venezia as a peer-reviewed comics studies blog.^[2][3][4] It became an open access peer-reviewed journal in 2013, published by Ubiquity Press.^[5][6] Since 2015 the journal is published by the Open Library of Humanities.^[7][8][9]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by the Modern Language Association Database,^[10] Scopus,^[11] and the Emerging Sources Citation Index.^[12]

Side publications

The Comics Grid. Journal of Comics Scholarship. Year One is an open access 292-page ebook compilation of the journal's first volume of peer-reviewed short articles which were originally published on the Comics Grid WordPress platform between January 2011 and January 2012.^[13]

Webinar Series

The Comics Grid Webinar Series are online panels where two authors talk about their articles published recently in the journal. The webinars are live and the recordings are made available via YouTube.^[14]

Reception

The journal is included in the listing of journals at ComicsResearch.org^[15] and New York University Libraries' guide for students and researchers interested in comics and graphic novels.^[16]

A 2013 Working Paper from the Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise and Technology Research Centre^[17] University of Glasgow, titled "Writing About Comics and Copyright", focuses on the journal as a case study.^[18]

In 2017, the journal was nominated for a Digital Humanities Award in the Public Engagement category.^[19]

In 2018, two editors of the journal received an Open Scholarship Award 2018 Honorable Mention for their work advancing open access in comics studies.^[20]

Further reading

• Smith, J. 19 March 2018. "The Comics Grid: Open access challenges and opportunities". Open Insights. Retrieved 13 August 2021.