''The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship'' is a peer-reviewed open access

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covering

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. The journal also publishes scholarly articles in comics form.

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. It became an open access peer-reviewed journal in 2013, published by

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. Since 2015 the journal is published by the

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Abstracting and indexing

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, and the

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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

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platform between January 2011 and January 2012.

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

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Reception

The journal is included in the listing of journals at ComicsResearch.org and

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Libraries' guide for students and researchers interested in comics and graphic novels. A 2013 Working Paper from the Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise and Technology Research Centre

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, titled "Writing About Comics and Copyright", focuses on the journal as a case study. In 2017, the journal was nominated for a

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Award in the Public Engagement category. In 2018, two editors of the journal received an Open Scholarship Award 2018 Honorable Mention for their work advancing open access in comics studies.

References

External links

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