The Comics Grid Webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega on 23 March 2026
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 Analogy as a Scientific Tool”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 8, 18. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.130
Join us for a Comics Grid webinar on Graphic Scholarship, a conversation about comics as a form of thinking, researching, and communicating knowledge. Starting from the perspective of the journal’s changing editorial guidelines for its Graphic Scholarship collection, the discussion will look back at major developments in the field over the past decade while also taking a longer historical view of comics used for and with research. The webinar will explore questions of form, readership, experimentation, assessment and editorial constraints, accessibility, and legitimacy, asking what graphic scholarship has become, and where it might go next.
Speakers:
- Dr Nicolas Labarre, University Bordeaux Montaigne, France, Graphic Scholarship section editor, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
- Dr Ernesto Priego, City St George’s, University of London, UK, editor, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
- Dr Peter Wilkins, Douglas College, Vancouver, Canada, editor, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
Chair:
- Dr Paula Clemente Vega, Open Library of Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
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