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The Comics Grid Webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship Date: Wednesday 01 April 2026 Time: 5-6:30 pm BST. Check your timezone here Registration: Free. Please register here Figure: Fragment from Farinella, M., (2018) “Of Microscopes and Metaphors: Visual A...

This Wednesday! Join us for a @comicsgrid.com webinar on Graphic Scholarship, a conversation about comics as a form of thinking, researching, and communicating knowledge.

📅 Wednesday 01 April 2026 (5-6:30pm GMT)

More info and registration here: www.openlibhums.org/news/928/

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This Wednesday 1st of April 2026. (Yes, we know).

Join us to discuss past present and future of graphic scholarship! Feat @wilkinsp.bsky.social @labarren.cpesr.fr @ernestopriego.com @paulaclemente.bsky.social #ComicsStudies

CHASE placement opportunity at the Open Library of Humanities The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is only available …

We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. Deadline 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/

Distorted Reflections: Identity and the Fact/Fiction Divide in Chuck Palahniuk’s<em> Fight Club 2</em> (2015) Graphic biographical fiction often blurs the lines between fact and fiction, which renders it a powerful medium for exploring the fluidity of identity. Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club 2 (2015), the graph...

Two new articles published in @comicsgrid.com 👇

1) “Distorted Reflections: Identity and the Fact/Fiction Divide in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club 2 (2015)” by Imane Ghebache: doi.org/10.16995/cg....

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Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of <em>Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics</em> This review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, co-written by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, with a preface by Vinh Nguyen (2025), places the book in the wider political ...

New in @comicsgrid.com: "Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind's (@crifkind.bsky.social) Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" by Mihaela Precup: doi.org/10.16995/cg....

Keep On Truckin' YouTube video by Eddie Kendricks - Topic

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Janusz Christa’s 'Kajko and Kokosz' and ‘the Asterix Controversy’ Through the Lens of Gérard Genette’s Transtextuality This paper revisits the long-standing ‘Asterix controversy’ in Poland surrounding Janusz Christa’s Kajko and Kokosz, often accused of plagiarizing René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s Asterix. Using Géra...

Also new today in the journal: Bednarski, A., (2026) “Janusz Christa’s 'Kajko and Kokosz' and ‘the Asterix Controversy’ Through the Lens of Gérard Genette’s Transtextuality ” doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... cc @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies

Not one but two really engaging reviews of Graphic Refuge now out in @comicsgrid.com

Sad news :(

Huzzah! First time we've published two reviews of the same book- there's been scholarly interest and the journal has been happy to support that. I strongly believe academic book reviews are an important but often underappreciated and poorly rewarded contribution to scholarship.

cc @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social

On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics This review of the book Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (2025), co-authored by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, provides an overview of the key conceptual framing and inter...

Cfr. Mickwitz, N., (2026) “On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg..... #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies

Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of <em>Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics</em> This review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, co-written by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, with a preface by Vinh Nguyen (2025), places the book in the wider political ...

New in the journal! Precup, M., (2026) “Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies cc @wlupress.bsky.social

Have you clicked on the link? doi.org/10.16995/cg....

<em>Baddawi </em>and the Visual Politics of Memory: A Conversation with Leila Abdelrazaq This interview with Palestinian American comics artist Leila Abdelrazaq explores her acclaimed graphic novel Baddawi (2015) and her broader creative practice as a visual storyteller of diasporic and i...

New interview @comicsgrid.com! Scott, B. L., (2026) “Baddawi and the Visual Politics of Memory: A Conversation with Leila Abdelrazaq”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... - powered by @openlibhums.org @janewayolh.bsky.social! #ComicsStudies #openaccess

Rich and detailed review of Graphic Refuge by Nina Mickwitz in @comicsgrid.com open access

On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics This review of the book Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (2025), co-authored by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, provides an overview of the key conceptual framing and inter...

New in @comicsgrid.com: Nina Mickwitz reviews Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (2025), co-authored by Dominic Davies and @crifkind.bsky.social. doi.org/10.16995/cg....

This launch last week was fantastic news for the future of scholarly publishing, with hundreds of #diamondopenaccess journals listed - check them out at www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/

@cphjournal.bsky.social is proud to be included.

cc @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social

On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics This review of the book Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (2025), co-authored by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, provides an overview of the key conceptual framing and inter...

New in the journal! Mickwitz, N., (2026) “On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies powered by @openlibhums.org; @janewayolh.bsky.social

Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (2025). An Interview with Vincent Hazard This interview with Vincent Hazard explores the creative genesis and collaborative process behind Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (Dupuis, Aire Libre, 2025), a French language graphic novel illustrat...

It's Sunday. Maybe you play some #BillieHoliday, and read my interview with @vhazard.bsky.social: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... @comicsgrid.com

OLH Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy. - Open Library of Humanities The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning open-access publisher of internationally leading academic scholarship. Our mission is to support and extend open access to scholarship in the humanit...

Our publisher, @openlibhums.org, has just published its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy, following more than a year-long consultation process with OLH journals' editorial teams (including us). You can read it here: www.openlibhums.org/site/ai-poli.... #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies

2026 is Here Editorial processes have been resumed at our editorial HQ and Volume 16 (2026) will be published on a rolling basis as soon as articles become ready. Volume 16 can be …

2026 is Here www.comicsgrid.com/news/886/ #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies - powered by @openlibhums.org

In the Eye of the Blind: A Biofictional Account of Nathan Leopold in <em>The Hunting Accident</em> (2017) This article examines how graphic biographical fiction dramatizes historical personalities as characters, whose life story is framed as a narrative with moral closure. I suggest that this mechanism is...

Another new article today, part of the Graphic Biographical Fiction Special Collection: In the Eye of the Blind: A Biofictional Account of Nathan Leopold in The Hunting Accident (2017) doi.org/10.16995/cg.... - thanks @janewayolh.bsky.social @siliconchips.bsky.social @openlibhums.org #ComicsStudies