The call for papers Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics was published on 30 July 2015. In it, the editors made a public invitation for scholarship that proposed meeting points between the disciplines of jazz studies and comics studies. This editorial discusses the motivations for the collection, the editorial methodology, and the…[Read more]

The Body Aches [Poems and Hay(na)ku] is a 24-page poetry chapbook. This is an open access PDF version of a modified digital original document from which the author printed 100 limited, signed and numbered copies in 2006. This open access PDF version contains minor revisions.

This chapbook was originally published on print in 2006 by Expresso…[Read more]

‘The Comics Grid. Journal of Comics Scholarship. Year One’ is a born-digital open access academic book licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License, based on a work at .

The book contains a compilation of the peer-reviewed articles published on the Comics Grid WordPress platform between January 2011 and…[Read more]

In this interview Adrian Edwards, lead curator of Printed Historical Sources, The British Library, talks to Ernesto Priego about the Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK exhibition at The British Library, 2 May – 19 August 2014.

Open Data is the name given to datasets which have been generated by international organisations, governments, NGOs and academic researchers, and made freely available online and openly-licensed. These datasets can be used by educators as Open Educational Resources (OER) to support different teaching and learning activities, allowing students to…[Read more]

This dataset contains the full text transcripts from 15 semi-structured interviews (approximately 44,100 words) conducted during November and December 2014 with participants involved in various aspects of the process of health-related comics production. These participants are authors and publishers and their work is publicly recognised in the…[Read more]

Recent literature suggests that a growing number of comics are being published on health-related topics, including aspects of mental health and social care (Williams 2012; Czerwiec et al 2015) and that comics are increasingly being used in higher education settings as information resources.

This article offers insights from comics creators and…[Read more]

Researchers have turned to comics as outputs incorporating their research findings. These comics are print and/or online publications that can lead to the wider adoption of research and enhance educational practices, widen public engagement, and improve the possibilities for research to influence public policy.

This article presents an…[Read more]