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In comics, images are much more than merely a component of a narrative. Sometimes they are also conceived to channel metaphorical information. They are built to express a kind of poetry. This is easy to see in strips such one of the boxing match variants that Neil Cohn drew to illustrate how metaphor works in the comics medium (Cohn 2019). A fighter is about to hit another, but instead of a punch, what we get is an atomic explosion (Figure 1).

Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2021-02-22 The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship Call for Papers Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution Editors: Jonathan Evans, Kathleen Dunley and Ernesto Priego This full Call for Papers is available to download from the Journal’s home page (https://www.comicsgrid.com/) Timeline: CFP made public: May 2020 Deadline for first drafts: 30 June 2021 Initial editorial desk review: 30...

Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2022-09-20 CALL FOR PAPERS Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes A Special Collection for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship Deadline extended to 15th January 2023 [full papers; please indicate you are submitting to this special collection] Publication: Summer 2023 Special Collection Editors: Alexandra Alberda, Anna Feigenbaum, Julia Round (Bournemouth University, UK) With support from the...

Recording of our Fourth Webinar: The Comics Grid Webinar Series - Live Chats on Comics Scholarship - Wrestling Graphic Novels: A Comics Grid Webinar with Anna Marta Marini and Jessica Fontaine Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2021-11-17 You can now watch the recording of our fourth Comics Grid webinar on Wrestling Graphic Novels organised on October 26th 2021.

Posted by Ernesto Priego on 2021-03-12 We are very pleased to give a warm welcome to our two new Editorial Workflow Coordinators, Kay Sohini and Jeanette D'Arcy. Kay and Jeanette join the journal's editorial board to perform crucial management, administrative and curatorial roles, and will participate actively in shaping current and new directions for the journal. Kay Sohiniis a PhD Candidate in English at Stony Brook University and a comics-maker based in New York.

Posted by The Editors on 2022-04-11 We are happy to announce the publication of our latest special collection 'Rapid Responses: Comics in and of the Moment'. This special collection invited timely creative responses concerning how comics are used in generative ways as spaces for people to find community, as tools for dissemination of stories otherwise untold or voices unheard, as spaces for the processing of grief and the discovery of self in difficult times.

Editorial Winter Break Closure 21st December - 20th January Posted by The Editors on 2024-12-20 The Comics Grid editorial office will be closed from 21st December 2024 – 20th January 2025 inclusive. All editorial and review duties will be resumed from the 20th onwards. There will be no editorial nor technical support monitoring throughout this period.

Intro: Creative Time versus Period of the Great Depression The political changes initiated in Poland in 1989 and the transition to a capitalist economy meant that comics became an important source of income in the last decade of the 20th century.

Jorge Santos’ Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics (University of Texas Press, 2019; Figure 1). provides an expansive critique of how graphic narratives engage with and reshape the cultural memory of the civil rights movement. Published in 2019, the book provides an alternate perspective on history by examining how graphic novels and memoirs serve as powerful tools in challenging dominant narratives.