_Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics_ 1st Issue Now Available!

Click this post's title to read articles from a host of comics scholars. This is the debut issue we're talking about, so you'll be reading history. The journal is a Routledge publication, and it is allowing free access to the articles through 2010.

I will probably submit something to this journal eventually, but I need to hear back from TAR about some things first. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics joins International Journal of Comic Art, ImageText, Studies in Comics, and, of course, the in-development SANE journal as important outlets for scholars' work on comics.

_Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics_ Debuts Soon!

Looks like other folks are getting in on this "we need more journals on comics and sequential art" argument. Routledge is publishing Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics twice a year starting in 2010.

Subscriptions are $45 a year and the editors are out of Manchester Metropolitan University in the U.K. Bart Beaty, Charles Hatfield, Mel Gibson, Joseph Witek, and Rob Weiner are on the review board, which is international.

The aims and scope of the journal suggest it will cover all aspects of comics and mentions being interdisciplinary, but education is not mentioned specifically as a particular interest of the journal (meaning I still have my niche market for SANE journal. Yay!)

I can't tell for sure if it is an ejournal or will be print-based (it may well be both), but it looks like a great new outlet for comics scholarship.