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New in @comicsgrid.com! > “Visual Metaphor in Comics. An Incomplete Taxonomy” by Roberto Bartual: doi.org/10.16995/cg....

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Click on the link and feed your #ComicsStudies mind. No paywall. No login. All welcome. Visual Metaphor in Comics. An Incomplete Taxonomy doi.org/10.16995/cg....

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🗣️ Language matters. Access matters. History matters. Dr Katherine Parker-Hay reflects on ILR's history and what’s next for our move to @janewayolh.bsky.social & @openlibhums.bsky.social: multilingual, equitable, and transparent publishing🌱

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Do you remember the first time? #ComicsStudies

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A huge thanks from The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC) to the 1001 members of the UK comics community who signed & shared our report asking DCMS to fund comics. We ❤️ you! It’s available to read, share & use (with credits please). www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...

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This is such an INCREDIBLY thoughtful and comprehensive outline of comics, the funding of comics, and how to improve that. Amazing work CCIC, we’re so lucky to have you fighting for our industry 💪

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@openlibhums.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social Hi, we know you have much more pressing stuff to do... can we suggest tho verifying the OLH account via its website? Would be cool. bsky.social/about/blog/4...

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✍️🚨 FINAL DAY TO ADD YOUR SIGNATURE!* ✍️🚨 If you believe UK comics deserves a £1.5m investment, sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... *We’ll be collecting signatures for a while actually, but we’re sending it to DCMS tomorrow so today is the last day to let them know you’re behind the proposal!

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Last day to sign! We’ve added our signature to the Comics Cultural Impact Collective’s report, asking DCMS for investment in comics. Read the report at www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of... and sign at forms.gle/mk6iTZK9yUDV....

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Have you signed?

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Looking forward to keynoting this online international conference in Mexico- taking a look at the last three decades of #ComicsStudies. Gulp! www.seminariodeestudiosdecomic.com/programa #CIEC2025

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U.K. cartoonist Rebecca Burke on her ICE detainment: ‘No one should be here’ www.tcj.com/u-k-cartooni... via @comicsjournal.bsky.social

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Here’s an interesting new paper in @comicsgrid.com that reviews types of visual metaphors in comics that arise through the sequences of images and seeks to categorize them www.comicsgrid.com/article/id/1...

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Huzzah! Open Access FTW. Happy Easter weekend everyone.

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It's been a very busy first four months @comicsgrid.com HQ, with lots of scholarly goodness being slow-brewed... we'll be publishing articles as they become ready as to not delay further things. Thanks to everyone for their patience! #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess

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New @comicsgrid.com! Visual Metaphor in Comics. An Incomplete Taxonomy, by @robertobartual.bsky.social doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess With permanent gratitude to @openlibhums.bsky.social and @siliconchips.bsky.social

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CCIC is asking the #DCMS to invest in the creation of a #UKComicsFund with the aim of unlocking all that gorgeous creative potential that we have in UK comics! Follow a few simple steps to add your voice No 1. Read our UK Comics Fund Proposal www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of...

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The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC, pronounced 'seasick) is asking for UK government investment in comics. Read their report at public.3.basecamp.com/p/frFb4z8ujy... and if you work in or around comics, you can add your signature to show support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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I wrote a thing about the My Lai massacre and how it appears (or doesn't) in US comics. A little light reading for a warm spring morning? amst.winter-verlag.de/article/AMST...

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Great to read my colleague @drdomdavies.bsky.social on three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance theconversation.com/three-graphi...

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NASA deletes graphic novels about female astronauts from its website www.chron.com/news/space/a...

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4756 views and 1817 downloads and counting. @altmetric.com and @openlibhums.bsky.social would be proud! We hope.

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Great news! @comicsgrid.com is elated & grateful!

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The funding crisis in UK higher education is forcing academic libraries to make difficult financial decisions. @theblochian.bsky.social argues agreements with commercial publishers now represent an unreasonable expense and introduces the @ojcollective.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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Thank you to @upmississippi.bsky.social for sending us @comicsgrid.com a review copy of @labarren.cpesr.fr's book on Moebius! #ComicsStudies

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Now receiving expressions of interest from PhD level researchers to review these books.... #ComicsStudies

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The Comics Grid editorial office will be closed from 21st December 2024 – 20th January 2025 inclusive. We encourage everyone to take a well-deserved break! www.comicsgrid.com/news/777/ #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies

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Season's Greetings! This was 2024 @comicsgrid.com: mailchi.mp/152cd431a485... #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies

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Huzzah! Thanks @janewayolh.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social #OpenAccess FTW

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New @comicsgrid.com! The Aesthetics and Cultural Influence of Polish Comic Zines from the 1980s and 1990s on the Domestic Comic Market doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess

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New in @comicsgrid.com: Journal of Comics Scholarship > “Visual Storytelling and Historical Memory. A Review of Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics” by Duane Ebesu: doi.org/10.16995/cg....

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New Book Review! Visual Storytelling and Historical Memory. A Review of Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics (@utexaspress.bsky.social) doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies

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We are not often around these parts (sorry), but you can find the contents of the 2024 volume (14th) so far at www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1200/i... #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess

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Delight at the New: A Review of Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess

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Chronicling Five Decades: A Review of UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics: A Critical Survey doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess

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Beyond Boundaries: A Review of Monstrous Women in Comics doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies #OpenAccss

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Three new book reviews today in The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. All in equitable Diamond #OpenAccess!

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Out Now: Comics Grid Volumes 13 and 14: mailchi.mp/c0fe04fd096f...

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Collectors, Storytellers, and Web Pros: Making Comics and Building Community During the Pandemic doi.org/10.16995/cg....

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Necropolitics and Pandemic Premediation in The Fall’s Neo-Western State of Exception doi.org/10.16995/cg....

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Expressions of Doomscrolling in Pandemic Comics: How Portrayals of Mobile Technology Shifted to a New Normal After COVID-19 doi.org/10.16995/cg....

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Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes doi.org/10.16995/cg....

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