Journals, Comics-Friendly

Orion, a long time regular on the Comics Scholars Discussion List, began a thread that ended very profitably, with a list of journals focused on or open to comics scholarship. My thanks to Mike Rhode, who helped me locate this list. 

ImageText

- peer reviewed

- open access (online)

- submissions required to be "grounded in theory"

International Journal of Comic Art

- not peer reviewed 

- subscription (print)

- ToC available online

- very international

European Comic Art

- peer reviewed

- subscription (print)

- ToC available online

- English-language papers but European content

The Comics Journal

- not peer reviewed

- subscription (print)

- non-academic but fan-scholarly (?)

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

- peer reviewed

- subscription (print)

Journal of Popular Culture

- peer reviewed

- subscription (print)

Studies in Comics

- peer reviewed

- subscription (print)

- interested in comics as "unique art form"

Image [&] Narrative

- http://www.imageandnarrative.be/

- peer reviewed

- subscription (print)

- in English and en Française

- "visual narratology and word and image studies in the broadest sense of the term"

SANE Journal

http://www.sanejournal.net/

- peer reviewed

- subscription

- education oriented

Studies in Graphic Narratives

- peer reviewed

- subscription (print)

- early history of comics/sequential art

Mechademia

- peer reviewed

- subscription (print)

- ToC and some content on Amazon

- manga, animation, and Japanese visual culture

Participations

Animation

Adaptations

Games and Culture

Game Studies

Belphégor 

- http://etc.dal.ca/belphegor/

- peer reviewed

- online

- French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

- "dedicated to the study of popular literature and media culture"

Comicalités

- http://comicalites.revues.org/

- peer-reviewed

- online

- en Française

- "entend interroger la spécificité ainsi que l'évolution des modes d’expression, de production et de réception de la bande dessinée, de l'illustration, de la caricature, du dessin animé"

Deutsche Comicforschung

- http://www.comicforschung.de/

- not peer reviewed

- print

- ToC only online

- im Deutsche
- specialized in early German comics

Mechademia

- peer reviewed 

- print

Reddition: 

- http://www.reddition.de/index.php/start/comic-report/pgxso-browse/ctx-1

- not peer reviewed 

- print 

- im Deutsche

- fan-oriented

Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art

- peer reviewed

- online 

Tebeosfera

- http://www.tebeosfera.com/

- not peer reviewed

- online

The Comics Grid

- peer reviewed

- online/print

Revista latinoamericana de estudios sobre la historieta (since 2001)

Historietas

- peer-reveiwed

- print

L'Indispensable

- not peer reviewed

- print

Transformative Works and Cultures

- http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc

"TWC publishes articles about transformative works, broadly conceived; articles about media studies; and articles about the fan community.We invite papers in all areas, including fan fiction, fan vids, film, TV, anime, comic books, fan community, video games, and machinima. We encourage a variety of critical approaches, including feminism, gender studies, queer theory, postcolonial theory, audience theory, reader-response theory, literary criticism, film studies, and posthumanism. We also encourage authors to consider writing personal essays integrated with scholarship; hyperlinked articles; or other forms that test the limits of the genre of academic writing."

Textimage

- peer-reviewed

- en Français

du9

- not peer reviewed

- en Français

Nona Arte: Revista Brasileira de Pesquisas em Histórias em Quadrinhos

- http://www2.eca.usp.br/nonaarte/ojs/index.php/nonaarte/index

- peer reviewed

- Portuguese 

The Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art 

- peer reviewed

- open access online: http://sjoca.com

- English language

- focus on Nordic countries, but not limited to them