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- not peer reviewed 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- not peer reviewed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- not peer reviewed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- not peer reviewed 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

Kill Shakespeare

My latest article is out.

It's at ImageTexT, a wonderful journal published by the University of Florida. I remember when this journal started, and I have wanted to be published in it since that day, so this is kind of a six-year career milestone for me. I'm deeply indebted to Katherine Shaeffer and Richard Burt for including me.

The issue is organized around the special topic of Shakespeare and Visual Rhetoric. Shakespeare's connection to comics has been a special interest of mine for a long while now; I briefly even tried to organize an essay collection on the topic. I eventually realized that perhaps I ought to finish my dissertation before doing any essay collections, and the work I was going to put in that collection wound up as the fourth chapter of my diss.

For this issue, I focused on "Kill Shakespeare," a 12-issue series published in 2010-2011. It's a very interesting work which earned both condemnation and praise when it was published but which, in my opinion, has not gotten credit for the very interesting ways it goes about defending its own existence, the nature of meta-text, and revisionism in general. I had a lot of fun writing it and I'm indebted to the original authors and artists who cooperated with me by sending me original scripts to a few issues I wanted to examine in detail.

You can read the entire issue on Shakespeare and Visual Rhetoric here.

And my article is here: "These are not our Father's Words: Kill Shakespeare's Defense of the Meta-Text"