Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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- not peer reviewed 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- not peer reviewed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
- 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
- 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 
- peer reviewed
- online
- French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
- "dedicated to the study of popular literature and media culture"

Comicalités
- 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
- not peer reviewed
- print
- ToC only online
- im Deutsche
- specialized in early German comics

Mechademia
- peer reviewed 
- print

Reddition
- not peer reviewed 
- print 
- im Deutsche
- fan-oriented

Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art
- peer reviewed
- online 

Tebeosfera
- not peer reviewed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- not peer reviewed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
"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
- 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

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