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Studies in Comics 15.1-2 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to present Studies in Comics 15.1-2!

Special Issue: ‘Comics, Conscience and Gender’

This double-length Special Issue collects proceedings from an open call for submissions held after the thirteenth iteration of the International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference held in July 2022 at the Lexicon Library and Cultural Centre, Dún Laoghaire, just outside Dublin, supported by Bournemouth University’s Women’s Academic Network, the Institute of Art, Design and Technology and the Creative Futures Academy. This event examined how contemporary challenges to conscience, ethics and responsibility prompt us to think about comics texts and representations, as well as considering how to approach or rethink debates and conflicts within comics studies itself.

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Aims & Scope

Studies in Comics aims to describe the nature of comics, to identify the medium as a distinct art form and to address the medium's formal properties. The emerging field of comics studies is a model for interdisciplinary research and this peer-reviewed journal welcomes all approaches and methodologies. Its specific goal, however, is to expand the relationship between comics and theory and to seek to articulate a 'theory of comics'.

This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

Issue 15.1-2

Editorial

Introduction: Comics, Conscience and Gender

MICHAEL CONNERTY AND JULIA ROUND

Articles

Drawing in circles: Feminized labour in autobiographical comics and cartoons on Instagram

CHARLOTTE J. FABRICIUS

The pregnant body in Polish comics: Reading Agata Nowicka’s Projekt: Człowiek (‘Project: A human being’) and Olga Wróbel’s Ciemna Strona Księżyca (‘The dark side of the moon’)

MAŁGORZATA OLSZA

Of monsters and women: Gender, sexual violence and the logic of familiarity in Drawing Power

MIHAELA PRECUP